Lakeshore Resort

The facts that decide your trip

Max rig length

52 ft

Sites

39

Hookups

Full Hookups (50/30A)

Access

Drive-in

Nightly rate

Not published

Season

Not published

Elevation

Not published

Dump station

No

Potable water

Yes

What is actually on site

• 50 amp
• 30 amp
• Dog friendly
• Pull-through
• Flush toilets
• Potable water
• Showers
• Swimming
• Fishing
• Picnic tables
• Cell service

Nearest public camera

Antlers Bridge · I-5 — about 0.5 mi from the campground

Camera operated by Caltrans District 2

Frame refreshes about every 5 min · feed last verified 3 days ago

Useful for road surface, smoke and haze — not for checking your site.

Facility info

Getting there

From Redding, take Interstate 5 north about 30 miles to the Lakeshore Drive / Antlers Road exit at Lakehead (exit 702), then turn south onto Lakeshore Drive and follow it roughly 1.5 miles. The resort is at 20483 Lakeshore Drive, on the lake side of the road. From the north, take I-5 south to the same exit and turn south onto Lakeshore Drive. The resort puts itself five minutes from the freeway, which is about right. Lakeshore Drive is paved two-lane with a rolling grade and curves as it follows the shoreline south, but nothing technical — a 52-foot combination gets in without drama, which is the point of the published site lengths. There are no low clearances and no unpaved sections between I-5 and the gate. Groceries are about a minute away in Lakehead. Redding, for anything larger, is roughly 30 miles and 35 minutes south. Note that Lakeshore Drive continues south past the resort toward Sugarloaf, so if your navigation app overshoots, you have gone too far along the same road rather than taken a wrong turn.

40.87846, -122.38797 · Driving directions

Local deep dive

Lakeshore Resort is one of the genuinely lakefront private properties on Shasta Lake — four acres running between Lakeshore Drive and the water, which is a rarer thing here than the marketing at most Lakehead parks would suggest. Thirty-nine RV sites, eleven rustic cabins and tent camping, plus a restaurant and bar with a patio, a seasonal pool, a game room and a play area. It is a resort with an RV park inside it rather than an RV park with a view. The single most useful fact the resort publishes is site dimensions, and almost nobody else on this lake does it. RV sites run from 26 to 52 feet long and from extra-narrow at 10 feet to super-wide at 33 feet, and the booking tool lets you filter by both. That is why the rig limit on this page is 52 ft rather than a guess: it comes from the operator, not a directory. It also means the spread is enormous — a 45-foot fifth wheel and a 24-foot travel trailer are not shopping for the same sites here, and arriving without having filtered is how people end up on a pad that does not fit. Hookups are full or water-and-electric depending on the site, with both 30 and 50-amp service, and both back-in and pull-through layouts exist. Two things to know that the brochure copy does not lead with. First, the shoreline directly in front of the RV sites is steep — the resort itself recommends walking two or three minutes in either direction to find easier water access. If you are picturing stepping off your pad onto a beach, adjust. Second, there is currently no dock. The resort says so on its own property map, notes one is planned for 2027, and states there is no boat storage on site. That second point matters because the California Division of Boating and Waterways still carries a facility record for Lakeshore Resort listing fuel sales, transient berths, boat rentals, haul-out and repair, electricity and water on the dock, and dry storage for 28 vessels. We have published both and told you which to plan around, because a state database entry that has not caught up is exactly the kind of thing that gets somebody towing a boat here on a Friday afternoon expecting to put it in the water. Season is the other place sources disagree. Good Sam lists the resort as running 15 May to 15 September. The resort's own discount schedule mentions monthly rates after Labor Day, which implies it is taking bookings past mid-September. Confirm your dates before you commit, particularly for a shoulder-season trip.

Lakeshore Resort sits on the Sacramento Arm south of the Lakehead interchange, on the stretch of Lakeshore Drive that carries most of the private resorts on this side of the lake. The character is different from the Forest Service campgrounds a few miles in either direction: there is a restaurant and bar on site, a pool, and a bar patio, and in high summer this is a sociable place rather than a quiet one. The seasonal shape of a stay here is more pronounced than at the year-round parks. If Good Sam is right about a mid-May to mid-September season, the resort is essentially a summer operation, and everything about the property — pool, restaurant, lake frontage — is built for those four months. That also means the trade-off nobody mentions: Shasta draws down through the irrigation season, so the water in front of the property in mid-September is a long way below where it was in June, and the already-steep shoreline gets steeper and longer to walk. The surrounding options are worth knowing. Antlers RV Park and Campground is a mile north with its own working marina if launching matters. Shasta Lake RV Resort is about two miles south along the same road with its own launch and private docks. Lakehead Campground and RV Park is up by the freeway. The Forest Service campgrounds — Antlers, Lakeshore East, Gregory Creek Group, Nelson Point — run dry-camp operations at a fraction of the price and book out months ahead through Recreation.gov on summer weekends. On fire: most lakeside resorts on Shasta operate on National Forest land under Forest Service special-use permits, and where that is the case, Shasta-Trinity Forest Orders apply inside the property exactly as they do at the agency campgrounds. The Division of Boating and Waterways record for Lakeshore Resort lists the managing authority as California State Parks rather than the Forest Service, which suggests a different arrangement here — but we have not found a document that settles the land status either way, so do not assume the Forest Order does not reach you. Ask the resort what the current fire rules are rather than working it out from the campground down the road.

Questions people ask

Where these facts come from

• Lakeshore Resort — official site (sites, cabins, amenities) · checked 2026-09-11
• Lakeshore Resort — property map and site dimensions · checked 2026-09-11
• California Division of Boating and Waterways — Lakeshore Resort facility record (coordinates; marina services appear out of date) · checked 2026-09-11
• Good Sam — Lakeshore Resort (season, rate floor, ratings) · checked 2026-09-11