California Boat Ramps
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Before you launch in California
🧼 Boats entering California are inspected at state border stations, and many lakes and reservoirs require an inspection before launch.
Links go to official California agency pages.
Lakes
- Pacific Ocean (118)
- Clear Lake (Lake County) (33)
- Lake Nacimiento (12)
- Millerton Lake (10)
- Folsom Lake (9)
- Lake Oroville (9)
- Lake Tahoe (9)
- Shasta Lake (9)
- Lake Casitas (8)
- Trinity Lake (8)
- Isabella Lake (7)
- Lake McClure (7)
- Lake Natoma (7)
- New Hogan Lake (7)
- Bass Lake (Madera County) (5)
- New Melones Lake (5)
- Big Bear Lake (4)
- Bucks Lake (4)
- Lake Berryessa (4)
- Lake Elsinore (4)
- Perris Reservoir (4)
- Union Valley Reservoir (4)
- Black Butte Lake (3)
- Don Pedro Reservoir (3)
- Eagle Lake (Lassen County) (3)
- Hensley Lake (3)
- Lake Kaweah (3)
- Lake Shastina (3)
- Lake Sonoma (3)
- Pine Flat Lake (3)
- Puddingstone Reservoir (3)
- Sherman Lake (3)
- Tulloch Reservoir (3)
- Agua Hedionda (2)
- Bridgeport Reservoir (2)
- Camp Far West Reservoir (2)
- Caples Lake (2)
- Castaic Lake (2)
- Central Lake (2)
- Donner Lake (2)
- El Capitan Lake (2)
- Fishermans Cut (2)
- French Meadows Reservoir (2)
- Frenchman Lake (2)
- H. V. Eastman Lake (2)
- Huntington Lake (2)
- Indian Valley Reservoir (2)
- Jackson Meadows Reservoir (2)
- Jenkinson Lake (2)
- June Lake (2)
- Lake Almanor (2)
- Lake Britton (2)
- Lake Davis (2)
- Lake Loch Lomond (2)
- Lake Pillsbury (2)
- Lake Siskiyou (2)
- Lake Talawa (2)
- Loon Lake (2)
- Mendocino Lake (2)
- New Bullards Bar Reservoir (2)
- Paradise Lake (2)
- Pyramid Lake (2)
- Salton Sea (Imperial County) (2)
- Santa Margarita Lake (2)
- Shaver Lake (2)
- Silver Lake (Amador County) (2)
- Silverwood Lake (2)
- Skinner Reservoir (2)
- Stone Lagoon (2)
- Stony Gorge Reservoir (2)
- Sunbeam Lake (2)
- Turlock Lake (2)
- Twin Lakes (2)
- Union Reservoir (2)
- Whiskeytown Lake (2)
- Woodward Reservoir (2)
- Yosemite Lake (2)
Rivers, bays and coast
- Sacramento River (Tehama County) (11)
- Colorado River (San Bernardino County) (10)
- Sacramento River (Sacramento County) (7)
- American River (5)
- Klamath River (Del Norte County) (5)
- Napa River (5)
- Feather River (4)
- Merced River Recreation Management Area (4)
- Russian River (4)
- Sacramento River (Colusa County) (4)
- San Joaquin River (San Joaquin County) (4)
- Albion River (3)
- Kern River (3)
- Los Gatos Creek (3)
- Bennett Slough (2)
- Fall River Lake (2)
- Guadalupe Slough (2)
- Kaweah River (2)
- Klamath River (Siskiyou County) (2)
- Lower Bear River Reservoir (2)
- Merced River (2)
- Piper Slough (2)
- Prosser Creek Reservoir (2)
- San Jacinto River (2)
- Smith River (2)
- Steamboat Slough (2)
Counties
- Alameda County (22)
- Alpine County (8)
- Amador County (6)
- Butte County (14)
- Calaveras County (10)
- Colusa County (3)
- Contra Costa County (21)
- Del Norte County (16)
- El Dorado County (37)
- Fresno County (25)
- Glenn County (4)
- Humboldt County (23)
- Imperial County (11)
- Inyo County (5)
- Kern County (15)
- Lake County (39)
- Lassen County (14)
- Los Angeles County (33)
- Madera County (24)
- Marin County (17)
- Mariposa County (12)
- Mendocino County (9)
- Merced County (5)
- Modoc County (8)
- Mono County (13)
- Monterey County (9)
- Napa County (11)
- Nevada County (19)
- Orange County (8)
- Placer County (32)
- Plumas County (23)
- Riverside County (18)
- Sacramento County (27)
- San Bernardino County (27)
- San Diego County (33)
- San Francisco County (10)
- San Joaquin County (13)
- San Luis Obispo County (20)
- San Mateo County (20)
- Santa Barbara County (7)
- Santa Clara County (17)
- Santa Cruz County (8)
- Shasta County (48)
- Sierra County (18)
- Siskiyou County (20)
- Solano County (17)
- Sonoma County (18)
- Stanislaus County (10)
- Sutter County (4)
- Tehama County (9)
- Trinity County (24)
- Tulare County (6)
- Tuolumne County (14)
- Ventura County (15)
- Yolo County (5)
- Yuba County (13)