Point Reyes National Seashore Campground

Very nice beach nice flat walk to bring lots of gear

Weather was perfect and our site was pretty great, too. It was quiet and peaceful. Just lovely!

Perfect trip. 6 miles in from Bear Valley Teailhead. Started at 1:30 and arrived before sunset at 5. Sky Trail well maintained. Camp site was wide open, soft ground.

Great location. Picnic table, restrooms, and bear box were all excellent shape and clean. Also, campsites spread sufficiently for privacy and to enjoy a wilderness experience.

Enjoyed Wildcat beach for the first time. Very clear area, and the sound of the ocean was nice.

The camp is quite open (people can see the entire setup when they walk by) but not many people walk by, nice and quiet. Water and bathrooms are a short walk, but the other camps (1, 2, 3) are a bit closer if that is a concern. Pretty small area to set up camp, just fit two tents (2P and 3P). Small dips collect water when rain happens, and table area not well shaded from the wind (can't speak for other camps). Still a very fun and cute site!

We went for a two night winter backpack trip. Started at Laguna trail head and first night at Coast Camp (#7) and then second day hiked to Sky Camp (#3). It was wonderful and although we did part of the trip over MLK (Sun-Tue), the trails were never super busy. This was a wonderful, easy mileage great get-away. Campsites were perfect and restrooms as clean as expected (for vault toilets).

Group of middle schoolers went on a 3 day backpacking trip at Point Reyes, and it was amazing. It was cold, rainy, windy, muddy but was totally amazing. Sky and Coast group campsites were really great with vault toilet, potable water, picnic tables bear bins, and had plenty of flat durable and tentable areas to accommodate our 8 tents. Hiking trails were all well maintained and clearly marked. The sunset and tidepools at the beach near Coast camp were wonderful, and the stars, oh my the stars, in the post-rain clear early morning sky were amazing too. So aside from braving the bad weather, our backpacking experience was memorable, and we will certainly be back in a few months to explore more of Point Reyes.

Stayed two nights at Coast Camp #5 followed by two nights at WIldcat Camp #6. Beautiful trip. Cold winter evenings are fine with lots of wool and down layers! One big rain and wind day at Wildcat. Bear box latches in sites are now so stiff (rusty?) that they're very hard to open and close, even the newer ones at Coast. (Wildcat's new bear boxes are about to be installed, currently all in a pile near the bathrooms). Had to put a medium-size stone up inside the latch cover and push IT against the latch mechanism. Large guy-hands might do ok.

Amazing high and low tides because January + new moon! Luckily this time the low-low tide was in afternoon rather than middle of night. So at Coast Camp I was able to get all the way to "Secret beach no. 2"! Requires a minus tide. From Sculptured Beach to SBno.1 climb up onto an outcrop (easy, almost steplike access), then around it to the cliffside, and then a trickier but short climb straight down a 'corner' notch to the sand. (On my way back, I couldn't climb back up the same way - shoes too slippery to hold on the first slanted foothold - but turns out to be an easy short climb up the nice curved shoulder of the outcrop, tons of handholds and footholds. That way is harder to see from above though, so would probably still use the straight notch for coming down.)

Then walk behind next outcrop and you have access (at low tide) to get through either a minus tide walk-thru arch or a higher crawl-through tunnel over to Secret Beach #1. Secret Beach #2 has the Hole-in-the-ceiling cave! Right there as soon as you get onto that 2nd beach (yet another arch-tunnel, then - only at a minus tide - you can get over some rough tidepool rocks to the beach). The cave has a lowish rock entrance but inside is a huge round interior in the soft cliff material open to sky! Awe-inspiring. Beautiful beach with great layered strata in cliffs. Leave enough time to get back before incoming tide blocks way.

We had a fantastic experience camping at Sky Camp. This was one of the most beautiful campsites I have ever visited. We stayed in #4 and had the most beautiful views of the ocean. Easy hike in, with many more hike options once you arrive, and longer routes to arrive. Went on NYE and the temperature was moderate. There was an outhouse with toilet paper, trash and recycling bins, a bear box, and potable running water nearby.