What you are actually booking

RV sites at Cedar Lodge, explained

Fifteen sites, full hookup, on gravel, put in new in 2024. Here is what that means in practice, what we know about the pads themselves, and what we do not know yet.

Every figure below is our own property record, current as of 24 September 2026.

The short version

  • Fifteen sites, each with 50 amp power, water and sewer at the pad, on a gravel surface put in new in 2024.
  • Check in is after 2 PM, check out is noon, both earlier than the 4 PM and 10 AM times for a room or the house.
  • Which numbered site sits where has not been mapped yet. Until we finish that survey on 30 September 2026, you book an RV site, not site seven specifically.
  • Tell us your rig length when you book. We will not put you on a pad it does not fit.
  • Pets are free on an RV site, unlike a room or the house, where a pet fee applies.

What full hookup actually means here

Fifteen sites, each with 50 amp power, water and sewer at the pad, so nothing about a stay here depends on a dump station or a water fill run. The surface is gravel across the whole row, and the row itself was put in new in 2024, on the same property as the motel and the house rather than a separate lot down the road. The grass area, the picnic tables and the treehouse are a walk away, not a drive.

We have one photograph of the RV row today: a rig on gravel, the hookup pedestal, and the road in. A pad up close, and the row from ground level, are on the list and go up the week they are taken.

You book a site, not a pad number, and here is why

We would rather say this plainly than let you find out at check in. Fifteen sites exist on the ground right now. Which numbered site sits where, how long and how wide each pad actually is, whether it is back in or pull through, how level it sits, and how far it sits from the buildings: none of that has been measured and written down yet. We are walking the whole property and mapping it on 30 September 2026.

Until that map exists, we sell an RV site rather than a specific numbered pad. Tell us the length of your rig when you book, and we will not put you somewhere it does not fit. If one of the unmeasured details above decides your trip, email info@stayatcedarlodge.com before you book and we will go and measure that specific thing rather than guess at it.

Check in and check out

Check in on an RV site is after 2 PM, and check out is noon, both different from a room or the house, which run 4 PM and 10 AM. If you reach us after 10 PM, park in the marked late arrival pull through and set up after 7 AM rather than working a full hookup in the dark.

Minimum stay on an RV site is one night, with no cutoff time on a self check in: we email a keypad code for the property on the day you arrive, so a late arrival still works.

The rest of the property, while you are here

An RV site puts you on the same ground as the motel rooms and the house, not a separate campground. The grass area, the treehouse and the picnic tables are shared, and you are walking distance from the motel’s covered walkway if the weather turns. Standing burned trees are visible on the ridge behind the property, left from the 2021 Dixie Fire: worth knowing before you arrive rather than after.

What to bring

  • Your rig’s actual length, to tell us at booking, not an estimate.
  • Your own sewer hose and fittings. The hookup is at the pad, the connection is yours.
  • A leveling kit. We have not measured how level each pad sits, so come prepared rather than assume flat gravel.
  • Chains, if you are arriving in winter. Our own chain control guide covers what R1, R2 and R3 mean on the two highways that reach us.

Where you sleep

At the junction of Highway 36 and Highway 89, three miles west of Chester, open every month of the year.

Motel rooms From $125+ a night plus county tax.
The house From $225+ a night plus county tax.
RV sites From $60+ a night plus county tax.

No booking fee, no resort fee, no cleaning fee. Plumas County adds 9% occupancy tax and a 3% tourism district assessment. First bookable night is 30 September 2026.

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More from the area

RV sites at Cedar Lodge

The full page: photos, price, and what we know and do not know about the pads.

See the RV site page

Rates and policies

All six house policies in one place, including check in, check out, quiet hours and pets.

Read rates and policies

Sources, and when we checked them

  1. Property record: unit count, hookup specification, surface and installation date. Current as of 24 September 2026.
  2. The RV site page and rates and policies page on this site, for check in, check out and pet policy, both current as of 24 September 2026.

Last checked 24 September 2026. The pad by pad survey referenced above happens on 30 September 2026, and this page updates once it is done.