Lake Solano Park

Lake Solano Park is located at the base of coastal foothills west of the town of Winters and offers an array of recreational opportunities. Open since 1973, Lake Solano Park is your close-to-home destination for a vacation or outdoor adventure. We cater to anglers, boaters, RVers or tent campers, and group picnics. Our trails are ideal for hiking, bird watching and wildlife photography. Over 65,000 visitors a year enjoy a wealth of recreational activities both on and off the water at the park. Lake Solano County Park is managed by Solano County, under a management agreement with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. The campground has 58 campsites for RVs and tents, of which 36 have water and electric hookups. An RV dump station is available. There are restrooms with flush toilets, sinks, and hot showers. The day use area has individual picnic sites, group picnic pads (reservable), a canoe/kayak boat launch, horseshoe pits, volleyball court, and a playground. The day use area is located directly east of the campground (across Pleasants Valley Road). The lake is considered one of the best fly fishing spots in the Sacramento Valley popular game fish in Lake Solano include Brown and Rainbow Trout. Gracing the park are a number of plants and trees that have adapted successfully to this climatic region with black walnut, buckeye, toyon, willow, valley oak, live oak, grey pine and cottonwood trees abundant in the area. The lake is home to an amazingly diverse cross-section of animal life, where one can find anything from the tiniest insects to black-tailed deer. Reptiles native to the area include blue-belly fence lizards, snakes, and harmless alligator lizards. Ground and tree squirrels, coyotes, raccoons, bobcats, and gray foxes can all be found at Lake Solano Park. Birds nesting at Lake Solano include the scrub jay, quail, the acorn woodpecker, bushtits, sparrows, and towhees. There is even a large winter population of European Widgeon that make the lake their winter home. Scenic excursions within a two hour drive of the park include Suisun Valley wineries, Lake Berryessa, the Napa Valley, the Sacramento Valley and its open farmland to the east, and the Delta waterways and the San Francisco Bay area to the south.