Clay Pit SVRA
Oroville (Butte County) · near Oroville · Gold Country & Central Valley
Off-Road
At a glance
- Skill level
- beginner
- Size
- 220+ acres · Fenced open-riding area · Former clay borrow pit
- Best season
- Fall–spring · Hot in summer · Can be muddy after rain (it's clay)
Permits and booking
- Permit
- State Vehicular Recreation Area (California State Parks). Day-use fee. Green Sticker or street-legal registration. Helmets and spark arrestors required. A simple open-riding bowl, not a trail network.
What is here
- Terrain
- desert-wash
Worth knowing
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Off-Road detail
- Nickname
- Oroville's Open Riding Bowl
- Vehicles
- atv-utv · dirt-bike · 4x4-jeep · any-ohv
- Signature routes
- The open riding bowl
- Intl tip
- Clay Pit is near Oroville, gateway to the northern Sierra foothills and the Feather River Canyon (rivers guide) with its Rock Creek waterslide (swimming guide). Combine with a Lake Oroville visit or a drive up Hwy 70 into the Lost Sierra. Chico, a lively college town, is 25 minutes northwest.
The guide
Clay Pit is the humblest entry in California's SVRA system — a 220-acre fenced open-riding area two miles west of Oroville, on …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Clay Pit SVRA — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 39.504, -121.606