Collins Lake is a 1600 acre lake and recreation area with 12 1/2 mile of shoreline, nestled in the beautiful California gold country foothills. It is located about 1 1/4 hours North East of Sacramento in Yuba County between Marysville and Grass Valley.

Collins Lake is open year-round at sunrise. Their facilities include lakeshore camping and RV sites, tent sites, group camps, boat launch, marina and boat rentals, a big sand swimming beach, children’s playground, beach volleyball, picnic area, general store, laundry and hot showers.

We take pride in offering a safe, clean, family friendly park and have security and medical personnel on call 24 hours a day.

Waterskiing is permitted May 1st - Oct 15th. Please note that Collins Lake regulations do not permit the operation of small personal watercraft ie: Jet skis or wet bikes, and unmuffled or excessively noisy boats

Collins Lake is famous for trophy TROUT and BASS fishing!!
They have California’s largest private trout planting program North of Sacramento. More than 40,000 trout are planted every spring. Thousands of the trout are trophy sized, planted at 3 to 8 pounds.

Collins Lake also has had lunker bass weigh in over 15 Pounds! Bass, crappie, bluegill, and catfish are plentiful and intensive habitat areas for them have been built to keep Collins Lake one of the best fishing lakes in Northern California.