Editors' picks across 8categories — the dock with the deepest channel, the winery with the view, the restaurant with the right wine list, the trail nobody's on at sunrise.
A sit-down dinner house on Tollhouse Road, one of the town's longest-running restaurants — reservations encouraged.
Visit ↗A full-service marina on Tollhouse Road — pontoon boats, fishing boats, WaveRunners, kayaks, canoes, and paddleboards, plus fuel, tackle, and food. Seasonal, open late April through mid-October.
Visit ↗A marina on Bikini Cove at Camp Edison — stand-up paddleboards, kayaks, canoes, and fishing boats, some with remote steering.
Pioneers Lewis Swift and Charles Shaver built a sawmill and log-pond dam here in the 1890s, floating lumber 45 miles by flume to Clovis. Southern California Edison bought the site in 1917 and completed the current Shaver Dam in 1927 for the Big Creek hydroelectric project, flooding the old mill site under the lake that now bears Shaver's name.
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