The Saddle Dam Day Use Area is a recreational area offering various activities like hiking, picnicking, and accessing the reservoir shoreline. It's a popular location for day trips and features amenities like restrooms, picnic tables, and a shade structure.

Lake Oroville State Rec Area offers a wide variety of outdoor activities including camping, picnicking, horseback riding, hiking, sail and power boating, water-skiing, fishing, swimming, boat-in camping, floating campsites and horse camping.

Locat­ed in North­ern Cal­i­for­nia, where the fer­tile val­ley floor meets the recre­ation-rich Sier­ra Neva­da and Cas­cade moun­tain ranges, Butte Coun­ty exem­pli­fies how seem­ing­ly con­trast­ing char­ac­ter­is­tics - val­leys and moun­tains, rur­al com­mu­ni­ties and urban cen­ters, farms and cities - come togeth­er perfectly.