Big Oak Campground at New Melones Lake, CA / RV & Tent Campground / A Campground Fav!
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- Big Oak Campground at New Melones Lake in the Western Sierra Foothills is a Travel Small Live Big Campground Favorite! This beautiful lakeside campground is perfect for tents or RVs. The lake offers fishing, hiking, sailing, houseboating, water skiing, boat rentals and fabulous camping! The views from the campsites are amazing ~ wildlife, sunrises & sunsets. The campground is located within the Glory Hole Recreation area not far from the historic gold towns of Angels Camp and Sonora. There are beautiful day use areas, a marina, a second adjacent campground ~ Ironhorse Campground which offers RV sites, tent sites and walk-in sites. Big Oak Campground, lakeside at New Melones Lake was perfection to us!
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Wow, beautiful waterfront site! Camping with a water view is our favorite! Great video!!
I know - we were so thrilled when we got there and found this site! This place was totally un-planned - just a bit of research ahead of time, but not much. It was awesome! Thank you :) Heather
Watched in full. Thank you for the share. Vast campground and chilly I guess. We also don’t camp during the peak of summer. That dog adoption is just awesome. Have a great week.
Thanks for watching! It was beautiful in the day ~ a bit chilly at night, but gorgeous! This dog is quite the handful... but she's getting better! Thank you & wishing you a great week as well.
Sure is nice views over the lake. Lovely.
It was beautiful! Most of the sites had great views, but our site was perfection!
Thanks for sharing this video, interesting and nice place.
Thanks for watching ~ it was just beautiful here! Really clean, nicely laid out and those views!
Neat story about your cousin! Beautiful lake, cool wildlife and few visitors. Just got back from a brief trip to SoCal - went out for a Bible Conference, but couldn't resist a few stops in Utah and your beautiful state!
I know - I love stories like that! It was just gorgeous here! Glad you had a nice trip and who could resist Utah? Some day we will get there for something other than a wedding...
That is definitely a top notch campground! Such beautiful views of the Lake! I can see why you made it a campground favorite!
We thought so too! Really pretty and great sites. One we would definitely return to! Thanks for watching Eric :)
Maybe I will stay here on this upcoming trip!
It was beautiful here! We had a fabulous site - loved our view. Indian Grinding Rock was nice too & had awesome history.
Looks great! So much to do with pretty views and showers!! Will write this one down to check out if we’re in the area! Have a great week!
It was great! The view from our spot was just perfect ~ so nice we barely left our site! Thanks Jennifer ~ hope you have a great week too!
@@TravelSmallLiveBig I checked it out on the map- New Melones Lake is huge! Thanks for the tip 😊
It is huge!
I've watched your videos on and off over the past couple of years and have enjoyed them. I love your voice. The first time I heard you I thought you must be a professional voice actor.
Really Carolyn wow! That has to be the nicest comment I’ve ever received! Thank you so very much - this is my fun little hobby that I would love to be my “job” some day when we retire. Thank you!!
That's gorgeous place for camping. And all information are really useful
Thank you ❤️
It is definitely beautiful! Would have loved to stay for days and days :)
Beautiful Video, I love your voice!
Thanks for the super kind comment! I appreciate it :)
@@TravelSmallLiveBig wanted to make it up to you
We only recently discovered your videos and truly look forward to new ones. We live near you and your videos have given us so many ideas of rv camping opportunities in our backyard and around California. We often focus on big multi-week trips and want to do more spur of the moment, three to five days trips without leaving the state. keep up the good work.
So glad you found me! We love our three week or week and a half trips, but they are only a few times a year, so if we can squeeze in a few 4-5 day trips it helps our sanity ;) There are some amazing places within a few hours of our area - I think its timing and just making it happen! What kind of RV do you have? Size and being able to be off the grid really opens up the places to go. Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@TravelSmallLiveBig We have a 32 foot class A with additional solar. Looking at down-sizing just to make it easier to get into smaller campgrounds and boondock. Our short trips usually include Refugio and McGee near Mammoth, otherwise it's trips out of state. We are retired and very active, our trips involve a lot of hiking. Headed to Oregon in April and have view several of your Oregon videos. They are a wonderful resorce.
mary kanatzar nice! Smaller definitely opens doors. As does solar! We have lots of favorites on The 395 and so many favorites in Oregon! Glad I am able to give you some ideas 😁
Looks like an awesome place!
It was! Loved our view and the size and set up of our site - really couldn't see the other campers. One to go back to!
Lovely spot. I think your houseboats are different to the ones here in UK :-)
Beautiful spot! Yes ~ totally different! Your houseboats are classic and our houseboats are hideous monsters... Been watching "Cruising The Cut" on Amazon Prime ~ cruising the UK canals on a narrowboat. Really enjoying the series! And other than some really long tunnels we would love to rent a narrowboat and explore! Have you seen any of this series? The guy is pretty funny, but you might have to give it a few episodes before his personality starts coming out.
Gonna try it out this weekend! So excited! We have camped Lake New Hogan about 45 minutes in Valley Springs! Not sure if the campgrounds are open again yet but definitely worth checking out when they do open!
Awesome! Did you reserve a site? There are so many there with fabulous views - we loved our site! How was New Hogan? We have not tried that one yet, but are trying to figure out where to go over Christmas / NY that is not too cold. Enjoy :)
Thanks for sharing! I just subscribed.
Thanks for watching! You might really enjoy this lake and the next few lakes we went to - videos will be up soon - both are known for fishing!
Pretty as a picture! 😊 Love the view! Houseboat rentals - would love to try that! Were there hiking trails up in those hills back there?
I think there were some trails ~ we were just so happy with the view, we didn't go and explore much! We played Molkky (a stick throwing game) and enjoyed our view. It was pretty, for sure! Thanks for watching :)
@@TravelSmallLiveBig Beautiful views! Never heard of that game! You are much welcome!
We were introduced to the game by some camping friends - it is a lawn game - super fun: Molkky: amzn.to/36HaYSr
Was camped there 9/29/13 for one night. Wanted to stay another, but host told me it was closing that day because of the "no budget passed" mess. :) Stayed at nearby Ironhorse a couple of years later. Keep up the interesting videos.
Oh bummer - we stayed two nights and loved it. How was Ironhorse? We didn't get over there ~ just too much to see and do in the short time we had. Thanks for the kind words & hope you are staying safe in this crazy time!
@@TravelSmallLiveBig Ironhorse was nice. Lake was only 14% of capacity due to drought, so not much water view. :)
Ramblin' Ralph whoa - low water level 😢 we were at a few lakes further south when the levels were super low. Sad & a bit frightening.
Small world, I live up by Lake Berryessa. I wonder if I know your cousin, at my former job I did interact with the BOR. :)
It is a small world! Nathan does the concessions there - the marinas I believe. He used to be a ranger then moved to this position. Someday we will explore more of that area! Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment.
@@TravelSmallLiveBig I have most likely talked to him in the past. I used to work at one of the camping areas on the lake. I hope you do come out here and make some videos. I know you like dry camping and Oak Shores would be one you would enjoy. It's a lot like this one you showed in your video here. I just recommend camping out here during the off season. Otherwise it's crowded and noisy at the camp sites.
Don't Be a Fishwife oh wow! Thanks for the campground suggestion! I wrote it down & would love to spend some time there & yes - in the off season. I’ve heard stories 🙄
Thanks for sharing your video, very nice presentation.
Thanks for the kind words Mark! This place is simply gorgeous! Would love to boat this lake...