The Forebay Aquatic Center promotes education, recreation, tourism, boating and water safety, and competitive water sports in and beyond the Feather River Watershed. The Forebay Aquatic Center offers classes, river tours, school and youth programs, summer camp, and special events. It is the perfect venue for your next private event or party.
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.
The 630-acre Thermalito Forebay is a day use area featuring cool, clear water from Lake Oroville and located in low rolling foothills, with scenic views of Table Mountain to the east. Thermalito Forebay South has a parking lot, four lane boat launch ramp, picnic tables, a sandy beach, and chemical toilets. Power boating and fishing are the main attractions here.
Hidden in historic Stirling City, Clotilde Merlo Park is a destination for those seeking natural beauty and tranquility. Visitors will quickly notice that this is no ordinary park once they start walking around the carefully designed and maintained grounds. At 3,500 feet in elevation, Merlo Park is also one of the cooler places in Butte County to take a walk.
Sly Creek Reservoir is a 618 acre lake located in beautiful Butte County, California. Tucked away in the eastern corner of Butte County, the Sly Creek Reservoir attracts campers, anglers, and flatwater boating enthusiasts. Surrounded by conifer-lined shores under bright blue skies, the water is a beautiful emerald hue; fall will bring even more color as the oaks and big-leaf maples turn yellow.
Located directly across from Darien Lake Theme Park, Cherry Hill Campground offers lush, shaded campsites, each with a picnic table and a fire ring. It has large open areas for games, volleyball, horseshoe pits and tetherball and great hiking trails! Simple, rustic, and beautiful, Cherry Hill Campground - The Way Camping Should Be!
Rio Bonito Park is one of five city parks of Biggs city. Rio Bonito was refurbished through a public-private partnership between the city and SunWest Milling, resulting in new picnic tables and improvements to the parking area, the restrooms and the playground.
Hidden in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Lake Concow is a beautiful place to visit, shore fish, or camp. The reservoir is surrounded by tall, mature cedars, pines, oaks, and more, which provide shady camping, fishing along the lake shore, or picnicking along the banks of the creek.
Durham Community Park in Durham, California, is the town's oldest park, spanning 24 acres. Located at 1847 Durham-Dayton Hwy, it features picnic tables, a playground, basketball courts, a riding arena, and two baseball fields.
Located at the south end of Lake Oroville, Loafer Creek Recreation Area has 137 tent campsites, each with parking, a table and a cooking stove. The facility also includes a boat launch, restrooms, coin-operated showers, drinking water, swimming, group sites, a dump station, and equestrian and hiking trails. Trailers up to 31 feet and RVs up to 40 feet are welcome.
The Oroville Wildlife Area is over 11,000 acres of riparian woodland habitat along the Feather River and grasslands around the Thermalito Afterbay. Popular activities include fishing, wildlife viewing, hunting, and shooting range.
The Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve is located on the ancestral land of the Mechoopda Indian Tribe and under the direction of Chico State Enterprises. Their mission is to work to preserve critical habitat and to provide a natural area for environmental research and education.
The Honey Run Covered Bridge is a historic landmark located in Chico, California. The Honey Run Covered Bridge is situated in Butte Creek Canyon, approximately 6 miles northeast of downtown Chico. It spans across Butte Creek, surrounded by scenic natural beauty.
One Mile Recreation Area is located within Lower Bidwell Park, just a few blocks from downtown Chico and easily accessible from East 4th Street. Enjoy swimming at Sycamore Pool, barbecues, softball, horseshoe pits and more. The extent of One Mile is from Pine Street to Highway 99, although the walking/biking trails extend beyond the highway
Five Mile Recreation Area is a popular park located in Bidwell Park in Chico, California. It offers a beautiful natural setting with shaded areas, picnic spots, and access to Big Chico Creek, making it a perfect place for outdoor activities like swimming, hiking, picnicking, and enjoying nature. The area is known for its grassy lawns, oak trees, and shallow creek spots that are great for families with children.
Elam is a backcountry camp for equestrians and backpackers. It’s just off the Redwood Creek Trail. The camp is just a wide spot in the trail with three picnic tables and two bear boxes. A side trail climbs up into the redwoods, where an outhouse is perched on the steep hillside. A few yards down the main trail is a corral and horse trough with another bear box.
Dive right into Butte County’s gold rush past by visiting the Forks of Butte Creek Recreation Area. This beautifully forested area is just north of the quaint Sierra Nevada foothill town of Magalia — home of the 54-pound "Dogtown Nugget."
Located in central northern California, Gray Lodge Wildlife Area provides habitat to over 300 species of resident and migratory birds and mammals, including more than 1 million waterfowl every year. Seasonal hunting and fishing, wildlife viewing, nature trails and a taxidermy exhibit are among the popular attractions of this land.
