This place is awesome! Great prices and selection of assorted baits live/frozen/artificial. The staff were friendly and very knowledgeable of fishing sports as well as key supplies to take a various locations. Definitely will be going back

Easy ramp access to launch boats from, plenty of parking, handicapped parking and bathroom...Great little park to relax in, walk your dog, and barbecue... always have a good time fishing..

This is a great out of sights, kinda small beach but its a place to meditate . Dont go alone after dark.... Really Cold

$5 for parking. $10 for parking and launch. The parking machine takes both cash and debit so thats nice. The ramp itself and dock are nicely maintained. 1 launch at a time with space for 3 boats to park at the dock. The parking lot and beach are a complete disaster though. Theres garbage everywhere including glass, diapers, food wrappers, and pretty much anything else. Theres also a homeless guy living on a small boat right on the beach. While he didnt bother anyone he did let his dog wander around. The dog seemed nice enough but still.

$10 boat launch. Picnic tables with BBQ. Lots of shade.FYI Dont park in boat spaces. Review the picture of park ranger puting tickets on every car parked in a boat space.

Easy to launch from. But 90% of boaters who use it have no business owning a boat.

Used to be a great fishing spot . But because covid struck too many homeless people camp here at night and will throw rocks into water starting around 11pm i guess its the time for us to leave.

Clean and well maintained.

Cant complain. Cool little spot

Nice spot to do a little fishing. Just make sure you bring proper gear for river currents.

Great little beach for the pup to go swimming

Ive never found it crowded and I get my boat in the water.

Nice boat launch

I prefer this launch over the Discovery Park launch. Too many rookies at discovery. That downside to this lainch is Swabbies. The patrons there take up all the parking here! If that happens, there is additional parking across the road. Its a hell of a walk but there is room. There is an outhouse on site but nothing fancy.

It seems so far away..but so easy to find. BEAUTIFUL place, with a lot of simple beauty

The park and boat launch are well kept. The only negatives I could see were an old dilapidated travel trailer and a older motor home parked in spots dedicated for folks with boat trailers. The travel trailer didnt have any tow vehicle in the park and looked like it had been there for several days.

Nice little free spot for the family! Good parking. Next to a good eatery with live music

I tried my 12 foot aluminum car top rowboat out at the Elkhorn Boat Ramp: Plenty of parking spaces, access is okay and marked adequately, ramp is well maintained and not too steep, dock is solid, marina next door, though I didnt use the facility, river current was not bad. Good facility. You can use your Annual Park Pass and Annual Boat Launch Card--both are issued by the American River Parkway Foundation--for entry and launching.

A nice quiet place to just park relax and collect my thoughts

Nice place to fish

Good to launch from, fair price.

Not a huge facility, bit its cool

Nice ramp and facilities

Amazing area to hangout with friends and family or just meet new people.

Good place to do paperwork.

Very pleased with the luanch

Nice facility. Good launch for paddle boarding downriver.

Extremely clean extremely clean and and well manage, nice boat ramp. With a beautiful setting

A great.place to have a picnic and let the dog play in the sand.

We launch our boat from here because it is closest to the area where we like to fish. Every time we launch and come back in there are people fishing from the launch dock making it hard to get our boat in and out of the water. It is also next to impossible to park a truck and trailer in the parking lot if you go out in the evenings and on weekends because the lot is full of single cars visiting Swabbies next door. They park in spaces marked for trailer parking only and then walk straight across without even paying the parking fees. I wish this launch area was monitored more closely. I am seriously considering not even finishing out the year of my paid park/launch pass and going to Verona to launch instead.

First time visit here and i was impressed. Nice and clean. Lots of shade

Its a great place but restrooms are closed all the time and the porta pottys are discusting wish they had them cleaned more often they haven’t been clened sence may 2018 like hellow you are charging money for a reason at least keep the restrooms well maintained

I just happened upon this place.. It was beautiful even in the pouring rain..

Been here two times like it

Today I went to launch my boat at the Elkhorn boat ramp as I do every Tuesday morning. When I got there (6:15 AM) there were three cars parked on the ramp with the trunks open and the persons in the cars were all fishing off the boat dock. I asked if they would move their cars so I could launch my boat and was told they would be leaving in about an hour. I waited 45 minutes then left and went home, trying hard to avoid a confrontation that might have disastrous results. If that weren’t bad enough, there was a very old pick-up truck parked in the area where boats prepare before launching. A very disheveled man was sleeping in the truck until he left at 7:00 AM.This ruined my day. Why should I pay to use these facilities if lawbreakers are left to do whatever they want and intimidate the fisherman as if this were the wild west. My parking permit expires in September and I have to decide whether or not to renew it, as well as my fishing license. My two fishing partners are considering this, as well.When I mentioned to the illegal parkers that this was a boat ramp and not a parking lot, they stated they there were no signs posted and they were there first. Perhaps you need to post the obvious sign stating no parking on the ramp and use of the ramp and parking lot requires payment. Also, more and more I’ve noticed fisherman fishing from the boat dock. This has always occurred, but in the past they would pull in their lines when a boat was coming or going. Recently, they seem to think we boaters are required to maneuver around them. Come on, authorities, do your job and clean this up or following will occur: 1) law abiding citizens will start breaking the law that nobody is enforcing; 2) legal fisherman will go elsewhere or just hang up the sport; and/or 3) a physical confrontation might occur which might become a news item that points back to the law enforcers.

Nice place to go

Just went here to launch my Jetski great place and close to home.

Go here all the time. Fun place, cute little Beach, camping areas, picnic tables, and barbecues

The boat ramp was covered in mud and unmaintained. It was so rutted; I dont think anyone would try and launch, expect for us because our boat is so small and have a 4x4. We only noticed after we paid the 10 dollar fee that the ramp was a mess. Please be aware. Sac county please fix the boat ramp.

Its a awsome place .. can bring ur family and have a good time carne asada abailibility great time... even better its righ next to Swabbies on the river great bar by the way...

Still a little sandy on one side

Great view

Peaceful

Great location away from the crowds at discovery park

Great place to have fun.

Friendly food was delicious.

Too many cars parking in the boat trailer only parking spots

Pretty

Ideal launch pad

Very easy to launch a boat

Always open

Easy access for fishing

Great quiet spot to get on the river