Le Trianon Resort

One of my favorite memories as a child is going camping here with my brother and sister and grandparents! Learning how to fish off the pier dock with my grandpa, catching minnows in the shallow beach area, or even trying to catch craw dads. I remember getting my first bee sting here and grandma covering the ouchie with mud! I remember watching the teenagers play king of the dock and toss of everyone else and my grandma warning that if I wanted to play with the big kids don’t come crying if I get tossed in the water too! I remember one year we camped there was a massive down pour on us and our whole camp was soaked and muddy but we stuck it out in the trailer and played cards and board games. So many good memories tied with this place, now it’s time to bring my own kids here. Feeling nostalgic.

Never mind the crazy kids running loose in golf carts or on party boats on the lake nor the seven foot high redwood fences that enclose everything. The lake is beautiful and they have hook up for rv’s. Private resort you have to be a guest of a season renter or by becoming a season renter to stay .$$$ .all guest sports are very close to hwy 20. bring your earplugs. very LOUD road noise from semi’s and diesel downshifting. Bathrooms are very clean and they have a couple of dumping stations for your trailer/rv.they also allow small yappy dogs that shit everywhere WATCHOUT

This is a wonderful place for the entire family. Every year the resort gets better and better. The management has been very responsive to the needs of all of the guests and they have tried very hard to make this our little slice of heaven.
The lake is gorgeous. The water is great for swimming in the summer. There is great boating and rope swinging. The fishing is on and off. The trout fishing is slow and yet to fully rebound from the effects of the ban on trout plants because of the red legged tree frog.
Everyone is very friendly and there is a strong sense of community. We feel very safe and secure and we know that there are always others keeping an eye on our kids.
There are some amenities including a Snack Bar and General Store. There are nice restaurants & large stores about 20 minutes away.
In summary, I would highly recommend this place for friends and family.

I have been coming here to LeTrianon since I was a kid 50 years ago. Back in the old days there was a big lodge building here, a lively bar/​grill, dances at night on the weekends with live bands and TONS of panfish (mostly Bluegill) that were easy to catch. Back in the day outboard motors were banned so the lake was truly PRISITINE, clear clean water with not a trace of petrol.
The resort area and beach is still there, but the lodge burned down years ago and has been replaced by a trailer selling 7 – 11 type stuff and some fishing/​swimming gear. Outboards are allowed now so there is a very slight oil sheen on some parts of the lake which you can taste if you swim. The lake is spring fed with very clean water and isnt green and souply like Clear Lake. The temp is just a couple of degrees below an ideal swimming temp, but on a hot summer day it is a great way to cool off.
There is a burger grill lakeside near the sand beach. Prices are OK and the food is OK. Ukiah has some really great places to eat but it is about a twenty five minute drive.
The ecology of the lake has changed. There arent nearly as many Bluegill around, but there are planted rainbow trout and some decent sized bass. Squawfish roam around in good numbers but they are considered a trash fish. Old timers swear the lake is many hundreds of feet deep and is connected by a natural tunnel to some distant lake or spring. I think that is just a tall tale, but I have never found a depth chart of the lake.
The owners have steadily jacked up prices and eliminated any reasonably priced way to stay or play here. Camping by the night was eliminated a few years ago and the day use fee can top $ 50 a car (adults are now $ 10 each) with no weekly rates offered.
I still go back for nostalgic reasons, but there are better values elswhere.
The lake is very nice even though it has a highway runing right next to it. it isnt a stuck up high end resort, lots of older cars in the parking areas. You can just bask in the sun, swim in the lake or fish. There are no organized activities of any kind. There is a very exciting rope swing tied to a tree overhanging the lake south of the resort a few hundred yards. The swing is accessible from the highway. For those brave enough to use it, it is a GREAT ride. You can drop from about 35 feet at the upper limit of the arc and go straight down in to the lake.
Fishing is spotty. I can usually get a couple of stocked rainbow trout in the 10 – 13 inch range by trolling a spinner from a paddled rubber raft. I release them. You will see big bass jump sometimes, but I have never seen big bass caught here. Small dumb bass do get caught but the big ones don’t. I used to catch zillions of Bluegill by rowing or hiking to any cove on the shady west side and fishing with worms. Now those coves are barren of fish. I used a snorkel and mask and didnt see much of anything underwater except for dead tree trunks and a few beer cans and soda bottles.
This area has a lot of rattlesnakes (REALLY) so be very careful walking off the main areas. The biggest rattler I have ever seen was killed here right along the path that goes from the West side of the lake along the shore. You wouldnt believe me if I told you how big it was and yes, I DO know the difference between rattlers, bull snakes and gopher snakes.
The primitive funky cabins are pricey considering what they offer, but they are about your best bet for a semi-​affordable LeTrianon Blue Lakes experience. Affordable is a relative term: $ 95 a night, SEVEN night minimum most summer months. Those on a very limited budget could actually park in public areas south of the resort and swim and fish on the accessible shoreline. The sand beach at LeTrainon is a lot nicer though.
I wish the owners would do a $ 20 per car day fee and resume nightly camping. Now you have to buy a season pass for really big bucks ($ 3000-​$ 4500!!!) if you wish to camp or RV here. You gotta hand it to the owners. They must have MBAs or maybe PhDs in economics. They have really calulated price elasticity for their market and product and found that poorer people can be squeezed a lot harder than any prior owners thought.
I’d give the lake a 5 star and the greedy owners a 0 star. It averages out to 2 plus stars which is what I am posting.

We spent an idyllic sunny sunday afternoon here like we’ve done many times before. Le Trianon has a nice sandy beach to set your blanket on. The water gets deep pretty close to shore so you have to watch the Kids very close. (You should be doing that anyway, right?)
I spent a really great afternoon here on the deck listening to the sound of children playing in the water and watching the fish swim by.
The day use fee is $ 6 for adults and $ 4 for kids.