The boat goes in after breakfast and comes back in the late afternoon. At night it sits on its trailer beside the motorhome, under the Jeffrey and sugar pines on the western shore of Shaver Lake. Camp Edison, Southern California Edison's campground on that shore, names its loops for those pines and for the cedars. The families who come for the week back the rig in on the first day and leave it there until checkout.
The address to aim for is the Manzanita loop, which Camp Edison lists as its full hook-up loop. With water, sewer and power at the pad, the family can run the air, the shower and the dishes all week without breaking camp. If the rig is on the long end, the longest pull-throughs on the same site table run past 55 feet of level RV length.
Across the park, 252 sites have electric and share hose bibs, and Camp Edison keeps four RV dump stations for the midweek empty. In summer, a week that uses both lakes runs five nights at Camp Edison, then a dump and a fresh-water fill on checkout morning, then two dry nights up at Huntington Lake before the drive home.
Book the site before you book the rig. Reservations open the second Monday in January at 8am, as of September 2026, and July and August weekends are the first to go. The site you land decides the rental, because a Manzanita pad expects a self-contained motorhome and many of the other sites post length notes that rule out a long trailer. If the park is full for your dates, Dinkey Creek Campground, out Dinkey Creek Road east of Shaver Lake, is the Forest Service fallback from May into October and books on Recreation.gov.
Huntington Lake and the sailboat regatta, up CA-168
Farther up CA-168, fir and pine come right down to the water at Huntington Lake, and the campsites along the shore sit on dirt spurs under that canopy. It's the lake people weigh against Shaver, and a day up here breaks up the week at Camp Edison. In the week of the sailboat regatta the Forest Service lists at Deer Creek, the water fills with sails.
For a family motorhome, the two campgrounds to know are Rancheria and Deer Creek, and each posts a 40-foot maximum vehicle length. Both are summer camps, open from June into September or October. Rancheria checks you in at the California Land Management office, and Deer Creek books on Recreation.gov. Deer Creek has no hookups, so those nights run on whatever the tanks held when you left Camp Edison.
Past Huntington, the road climbs over Kaiser Pass toward Mono Hot Springs and Florence Lake, and that's where a family motorhome turns back. The campground at Mono Hot Springs caps vehicles at 25 feet, which leaves the hot springs and Florence Lake off this trip for anything longer. A couple who want that high country can size down to a rig under 25 feet and make it its own trip.
Kings Canyon and the sequoias are the other big trip on this side of the Sierra, with their own road in and their own campground limits. The California RV page covers that approach.