Point Reyes National Seashore Campground

I love Point Reyes. It’s one of my favorite places. Alamere Falls is beautiful. I’ve stayed at every hike-in campground and it’s always lovely.

My family and I did our first backpacking trip with my two year old son and it was amazing. We did the shorter 1.8 mile hike to the coastal campground and it was totally manageable with a toddler. The campground and toilets and potable water, and it is very close to a gorgeous beach. The only downside was the immense amount of poison oak around our campsite, but that's to be expected here! Bring layers:)

Camped at Coast Campground site 7, which is the farthest up the camp trail. Which means privacy (good) but farther from water and bathrooms. I'd book that site again.
Camped at Site 10 at Sky Campground. Absolutely ZERO shade so plan to come later in the day. Nice site with great views of the sky and fairly private (again the last one in the camp trail). Site 10 has a pretty good hike down, and back up again, a steep hill to get to bathrooms and water.

It was fantastic

The hike to Glen camp was long and challenging. But I enjoyed it very much, and I felt safe the whole way there and back due to the well marked trails and having my GPS.
I hope to return and stay there again!

This trail is a blast, although there are some overgrown areas, it lends to the depth of the journey and it’s ability to liberate your mind from the shackles of the daily grind, just do it.

Backpacked trailhead to Coast then hiked over to Wildcat, then out. Trail from Coast to Wildcat is longer than map says by ~15-20%, so beware.
Otherwise, super great and fun trip. Fresh water at every campground, as well as sit-down pit toilets, trash cans, and bear boxes at every site. Luxury backpacking! Note, not much fresh water access between campgrounds - leave your water pumps and iodine pills at home, but bring extra water containers for the hikes.

Beautiful spot! Herd of Thule elk bed down here regularly.

If you plan to hike to alamere falls make sure you look up the tide charts ahead of time as you need low tide to get all the way there and there is no cell service.

Lake loop trail is extremely overgrown, if you’re sensitive to poison oak I’d skip it and stick to coast trail. I was very careful and still managed to come home with a rash.

Also, the food storage boxes are old, haven’t been replaced like those at sky and coast (hopefully soon?) so expect mice who will chew into your food overnight. Site 4 has a particularly bad box, I asked a favor of site 8 neighbors, immediately adjacent, and kept my food in that box which survived the night. Other campers suggested keeping the food in a pot with a lid, and putting a heavy rock on the lid, all inside the critter box. Site 4 box literally has a mouse nest inside, along with mouse droppings. These really need immediate replacement.

One of my favorite spots, vault bathrooms remain clean and well supplied with toilet paper. Each site is pretty close to each other but separated enough by brush that it doesn't feel crowded. Can listen to the ocean while falling asleep. Feels like a private beach in the mornings. Walk to alamere falls is lovely either by way of the beach or by the trails.

Rented kayaks at Laine's bait shop in San Jose (cheaper) and launched at Miller beach public boat launch. Kayaked across for 45 minutes, around noon. Not too windy. Set up camp at Wall point beach. Great campsite and private beach. Had a great view of the bird rookeries. No hiking trails were accessible though, from this site. Brought firewood for a beach fire. Great experience, would return, but camp a few beaches further north, which would give us a hike to Mclure beach trail oceanside.