great camping sites in the Silicon Valley Ca. or around the Bay Area?

Aubrie

My boyfriend and I just moved to California a few months ago and were wondering where are some great camping sites around the Silicon Valley or the Bay Area?

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I grew up in San Jose and could just go on-and-on about where to go.
- Big Sur
- Big Basin
* Santa Cruz Mountains
-Skyline Park / Saratoga Springs
* Santa Cruz Mountains w/ amazing Castle Rock!
- The Pinnacles
* East Side through Hollister, more car camping and a pool!
- Sand Dollar Beach
- Angel Island
* San Francisco, bit chilly but fun.
- Manresa / Sunset Beach
* Near Watsonville beach camping

There's so many more too! Please feel free to e-mail me for more. Also, if you have a chance try stopping in a Borders. There's usually a Local section where you can check out local hiking / camping place.

After prom camping in the Bay Area?

Eloise

After prom, about 10 of my friends and I thought it would be fun to do some camping, but I can't seem to find a site where we wouldn't be bothering people. Most sites have quiet hours before 11, and prom doesn't even end until then. I've heard if you get a 'group' campsite the quiet hours don't really apply, but I'm not quite clear. Just to be clear, we're not going to be really 'partying'. Probably some music, a campfire, something low key, but probably not super quiet. Does anyone know of a campsite on the peninsula that would allow something like that? Thanks!

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Not without driving into the woods for dispersed camping in the middle of the night so that or the group site. Also as a camper my self the one thing I hate the most is folks coming into the campground after lights out for the majority of users and making a ton of noise till god knows when in the morning. Be polite come up with another plan. or save the trip for the next day. Groups sites go quick so get your reservations in pronto.

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What's the price to rent a fire pit/camp site in the Clear Bay area of Lake Thunderbird?

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rebecca

I've recently become interested in camping, and being a city girl in the summer, I want something at the lake. I swim there often and see people camp all the time, but since its a weekend they aren't open to call and get info. I wanted to spend the day tomorrow swimming and end with a campfire and s'mores. We don't even need to post up a tent. I'm just trying to figure out how else to rent on, and prices, and just general info and suggestions since I've never done this before.

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Here is a campground in the area:


Lake Thunderbird SP - Clear Bay
Little River State Park Rd
Norman, Oklahoma 73026

The prices I'm finding online range from $8 to $16 a day.

That said if you are a woman alone don't do overnight camping especially in a tent. I used to travel/camp alone in a small mini van motor home. I don't even do that any more. Times have changed. It isn't safe. I stay in motels now and I pick them carefully OR I travel on a group trip/cruise. If you are with a camping CLUB that's different. You want to be in a group if you are camping as a single. Also, please be careful about how much personal info you put online.

Why do the majority of Bay Area Occupy protests seem to occur in Oakland?

Q. We just had yet another protest here today. I know there also have been a few protests in San Francisco & San Jose, but I would like to know why these protesters usually decide to pick Oakland, out of all cities in the Bay Area, to protest in. I agree with the Occupy movement, but the protests here are costing our city a bunch of money, and it's further trashing our reputation. And not all of the protesters are even from Oakland. Why can't the protests be in different and more up-scale areas like perhaps Livermore and Marin?

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I always got the impression it was because Oakland (the police, the mayor) reacted to violently right from the start rather then trying to work with the protestors so the politicians could say, "hey, we gave you guys a chance and now you won't work with us so you have to go." Oakland authorities treated the protested like criminals right from the start so the protestors are sort of paying them back by continuing to make trouble. And the protestors don't care if the are costing Oakland tax money; they are getting publicity each time the authorities "crack down" on them. So the Oakland authorities are feeding into the whole goal of the protestors. Oakland authorities handled the Occupy protest poorly and now Oakland pays for it. Maybe if the mayor had ordered port-a-potties out to the camp site instead of riot police the protestors might never have galvanized into a cohesive aim, campers might have gotten tired of the filth and dealing with the homeless; the public would have become immune to the campers so they (the campers) would have become invisible which defeats their purpose so they'd have to think of some other way of getting their point across. I'm rather surprised someone hasn't called an Occupy march on Washington. Marin won't uprise because a lot of those bankers and 1% live up there. Livermore? I don't even know where Livermore actually is and I live in the Bay Area.

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Where would be a good quiet place to go camping?

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ReAl

In California.l I live in Bay Area and planning on going to camping (around or less than radius of 70 mils) to any secluded camping site. I have never been camping before and wanted to go somewhere quiet and relaxing.

I searched google but needed extra knoweldge. thank you!

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The Desolation Wilderness, can't get any quieter than that.
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Does anyone know any good camping spots in Northern California?

Helpful Ha

I'm looking for a camp site to go fishing and camping along a river in Northern California. I'm planning to go with my girlfriend and 2 other couples and none of us have really gone camping before so it would be nice if it wasn't too rugged and out there. We are from the bay area so we were thinking of someplace near Sacramento. The location is pretty flexible, I just don't want to drive to the Oregeon border.

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Lake shasta, Antlers resort. last visit there had a great time.

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