Sacramento River RV park

stumbled on a nice RV park on the Sacto River, Sherwood Harbor Marina & RV.  It's about 2miles south of Sacramento, on the West side of the river across from Sacramentos pocket area.  I did not bring my kayak, but this would be a great camping spot to spend a few days fishing the sac.

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longer story:
Early storm blew out the MBK Fishing derby, plan was to haul the trailer and kayak down, camp at the raceway (another nice campground), and my Dad was going to join me.  Derby was postponed on the day we'd planned to drive down, so that left us scratching our heads...trailer was already packed, fridge loaded, beer on ice...that aint gonna last a week.  Dad still wanted to go camping.  So we decided to head out Friday afternoon instead of Thursday.  Had considered doing a Harvest Host, but the Mosquito fire was blowing smoke all over the area, so then stumbled on Sherwood Harbor - seemed to have good reviews, very close, on the water, away from the fire...why not.  I had already unloaded my kayak, and decided not to re-load it.  We arrived at Sherwood  3pm on Friday, were checked in, and shown a selection of sites we could choose, found a nice spot that backed right up to the marina.  Dad wanted to give fishing a try, so we bought him a day license for Saturday.

Friday weather was gorgeous, light breeze, perfect temperature, the water screaming for my kayak...sigh...though it was good to spend time with Dad.  Dad made his signature martinis and I made my mustard chicken for dinner.

Saturday came in with a morning breeze, and the breeze just built and build all day and night.  We spent the morning shore fishing, caught some sea weed, but nothing else.  At one point, Dad's feet got stuck in the silty sand, and he fell backward, no harm done.  We fished a bit more before finally calling it at lunch time - no nibbles, Dad had one follow.  Maybe the incoming front kept the fish down.  Too bad, was hoping Dad might hook into one.

Later that day we got out, walked the docks, looked at all the boats, where they were from (Sacramento, Ketchikan Alaska, San Jose??? San Jose has no harbor I know of...)  A few very nice boats, one really nice Sail boat that would be fun to sail around the world, huge house boats, ski boats, and derilicts...so many docks have derelicts, I'm guessing as a marina owner, it is probably near impossible to get rid of them.

For dinner we had some lamb shoulder chops (lamb should, cut about 1" thick into rounds, with a bone in the middle).  Dad had a recipe, we had none of the ingredients, so I had to improvise, trying to match acids etc.  (Yellow Mustard, Brine from cocktail onions, a little salsa, lawry's salt, dash of oil) we let it marinate in the fridge all day, then cooked it on the BBQ grill, while enjoying Dad's martini's.  fwiw, Kirkland aromatic London Gin is not good for martini's...spend a few extra bucks, get the Beefeaters.

The wind blew all night, until about 2am, then it just stopped, and Sunday morning was glass.

Current did not seem very strong.  In this spot, the river is divided in two, there is the river, and the Deepwater shipping channel to the west.

this spot might be fun for a fish and chill, I'd be down for it.

San Jose Del Cabo

That was a great write up.  Thx for sharing that spot will have to try it sometime. 

Do they allow tent camping?

Do they allow tent camping?

not sure, they have a perfect lawn for it, and restroom with showers...so they should? but they do not have any dedicated tent spots

Very nice.

Next time I go to Davis (my younger son is in college there), I'm going to stop by and take a look. Maybe I'll launch my AI and do some river fishing/sailing...

Very nice.

Next time I go to Davis (my younger son is in college there), I'm going to stop by and take a look. Maybe I'll launch my AI and do some river fishing/sailing...

for sailing you should try "Lake Washington', otherwise known as the turning basin for the Port of Sacramento.  a bunch of small sailboat regattas compete there, good wind, nice little lake