Point Reyes National Seashore Campground

Such a great campsite!

The fact that there is a pit toilet and a potable water faucet at a backpacking campground was fantastic. The views from the campsite were steller!

Lovely site with ocean access.

I started from Sky camp trail head and hiked West toward Coast Camp site 6, very nice wooded trail, loved the beach and sunset at Coast camp, next day I hiked South East on the Woodward trail, lots of downed trees over the trail from the burn a few years ago, camped at Sky Camp site 10 , windy all night but great view, next day I hiked out to the Sky Camp trail head 1.8 miles , had a blast for mid winter backpacking

Of all the campsites in Point Reyes, Glen camp provides the most "wilderness" experience. It is easy to forget that you are minutes away from urban areas.

Very easy and really pretty bike in from the Limantour lodge parking lot. Campground is easy to find, conditions are excellent, sheltered from the find, water-a-plenty, beach is really close. Went in with a five and an eight year old, they had a great time. Not the place for solitude but thats to be expected this close to SF!

Had an incredible experience here. There was a herd of elk right by the camp, and my site had a front row view of them all. I did not expect them, but I'm sure we were super lucky for their visit. The site was green and will maintained. There's also a path to the cliffs along the beach where you can catch the sunset.

Putting it plainly, Point Reyes is a gem. Miles of trails, miles of beaches, miles of smiles. The backpacking sites provide a great getaway all year round.

This form doesn't show which campground at Point Reyes I'm reviewing, oddly - I stayed at all four on my recent trip. Great experience, as always. All campgrounds great. On my third night I was at Glen. Pretty and woodsy, no far views, least popular because furthest from the beaches or views, but nice little campground.

Glen: Avoid site 10, it is in the middle of all the other sites, with zero feeling of privacy. All the sites are within view of at least some other sites, but the rest are more on the edge or up the little path, so they feel less exposed. Direct sun is very late to hit in the morning, depends on time of year but was close to 10 am before the first site (#12) got any sun. Great if it's hot, chilly if it's not.

Heads up: there are no 'native' rocks in Glen campground to pound your tent stakes in with (unless some have been brought in since this review). The dirt there is deep loam, with no rocks lying around, and none in the immediate trails leading in, either. I carried a rock in three months ago to site 2. Scouting around this time I found it up in site 8, but none of the other sites had any rocks. This one I had found originally in one small section of the Glen loop trail (the narrow footpath) with only a few rocks in it on the way in, and this time I saw no available rocks there big enough. Later, when hiking out the OTHER part of the loop - the service road toward Stewart Trail - I saw only one lone rock that had worked its way out of the road, until about an eighth of a mile, near the top of that steep rise, just before the first "water valve" sign - the roadcut on the opposite side exposes several good size rocks. If you are coming into camp that way, grab yourself a rock there! (not the water valve sign near the turnoff for Greenpicker Trail, that's still a good half mile or more away from Glen).

Nice campsite, toilets well supplied. well maintained trails and super helpful rangers advising trails at bear valley visitor center.