Spend the day at Granite Bay, the sandy beach on Folsom Lake's north shore, then camp the night at Beals Point down the shore. Granite Bay is day use only, so you swim the buoyed area, picnic, and launch a boat there, then move to the campground to sleep. Beals Point is the closest one to Rocklin that takes a van, and it stays open all year. Reserve the hookup loop: a fan or air conditioner earns its keep when the valley bakes into the 90s and 100s.
Camping at Beals Point
Most campervans fit Beals Point without a fuss. The campground caps trailers and motorhomes at 31 feet (Folsom Lake brochure), which covers the vans in the listings above; if you are sizing up to a full motorhome, the California RV hub is the place to compare.
Twenty of the sites have RV hookups and the rest are standard loop, and both hold a van. You book through ReserveCalifornia on a rolling six-month window, where a standard site runs $28 to $33 and a hookup site $48 to $58 by season as of August 2026. Off-season the loop turns first-come, so you can pull in without one.
Farther out, from Gold Country to Tahoe and Yosemite
The Gold Country rivers along Highway 49, from Coloma down the American River, are a Sacramento trip more than a Rocklin one. Uphill, Interstate 80 climbs east to Lake Tahoe and Donner, and that run belongs to Truckee at the top of the grade. Yosemite is the long haul south on Highway 99 to Highway 120, and the Yosemite campervan lander has that trip.