Day Use Areas
Indian Fishery Day Use Area is an oxbow lake surrounded by oak woodland. This area is conducive to picnicking, bird watching, fishing, and hiking. It is common to observe river otters darting through the water, turtles basking on a fallen tree or herons stalking a meal.
Big Chico Creek Day Use Area is characterized by lush river habitat that opens up to a large gravel bar that fronts the Sacramento River. Here park visitors fish, swim, jet ski, water ski and sun bathe. This is also the location that many river rafts and tubes exit the river.
Pine Creek Day Use Area is a popular location for fishing, canoeing, kayaking, picnicking and bird and wildlife watching.
Irvine Finch River Access is a 5-acre (2.0 ha) parking lot and launch ramp affording park visitors an easy way to access the Sacramento River for boating, canoeing or floating on inner tubes.
Read more about this topic: Bidwell-Sacramento River State Park
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“Our little systems have their day;
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They are but broken lights of thee,
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
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