Best Dog-Friendly Camping near Loyalton, CA
Big Dog Valley campground welcomes pets at its dispersed campsites near Loyalton, offering a more primitive camping experience with no designated fire rings or picnic tables. Dogs can join their owners at all the area's campgrounds, including Bear Valley Campground, Cottonwood Campground, and Upper Little Truckee Campground. Each site provides fire rings and picnic tables along with vault toilets. Campers describe Dog Valley as a special place for boondocking with a great creek, where people enjoy camping, riding ATVs and dirt bikes. The campground host at Cottonwood walks around regularly to check sites and keep facilities clean, with bathrooms well-stocked and maintained.
Trails surrounding these pet-friendly campgrounds provide excellent hiking opportunities with dogs. At Lookout Campground, accessible via a bumpy dirt road, campsites offer remarkable privacy with substantial space between sites—from most spots, campers can scarcely see neighboring sites despite the presence of vault toilets. The separation between sites means that dogs have room to roam, though leash policies may apply. Crystal Peak trail from Lookout Campground offers both hiking opportunities and interesting terrain for pets and their owners, with crystals scattered throughout the area and nice views from the knoll. Sites near Highway 89 will experience some road noise during the day, though sites toward the back of Cottonwood Campground remain quieter with only the sound of breeze through trees when wind is present.
