About Point Reyes National Seashore Campground
Number of accommodations: 68
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
Campground Amenities
Water and Hygiene
- Potable Water
Water Access
- Beach Access
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Reviews (565)
What Guests Are Saying
Point Reyes National Seashore Campground offers a beautiful and well-maintained environment with spacious sites, stunning views, and convenient amenities like potable water and clean restrooms. Many visitors praised the friendly staff and various hiking options, including scenic trails and opportunities for wildlife viewing. While some sites may have concerns like wind or nearby trails overgrown with grass, the overall experience is highly positive, making it a favorite camping destination for many.
What Guests Are Saying
Point Reyes National Seashore Campground offers a beautiful and well-maintained environment with spacious sites, stunning views, and convenient amenities like potable water and clean restrooms. Many visitors praised the friendly staff and various hiking options, including scenic trails and opportunities for wildlife viewing. While some sites may have concerns like wind or nearby trails overgrown with grass, the overall experience is highly positive, making it a favorite camping destination for many.
Review Summary
Aaron D
VerifiedApril 10, 2023 • Stayed at: 006, Loop: Glen
Beautiful, shaded site. A bit further from the toilets, but the plus-side is that it was quite private. Nice, large and flat pads for tents.
Jael Y
VerifiedApril 9, 2023 • Stayed at: 001 GROUP, Loop: Wildcat
The waterfall was the biggest I've ever seen it. Despite the rain we got on one of our days, it was still a fabulous trip.
Bill G
VerifiedApril 9, 2023 • Stayed at: 005, Loop: Wildcat
Excellent overnight at Wildcat Camp, as always. Good facilities, with amenities: picnic table, potable water, and a toilet. Plus early morning access to Alamere Falls, and a small local band of Tule Elk. What's not to like?
Patrick Z
VerifiedApril 7, 2023 • Stayed at: 011, Loop: Sky
This place has quickly become my 7 year-old son's favorite spot to take his friends on their first backpacking trips. It's a short hike in (1.5mi) and then he likes to day-hike down the mountain and act like a little guide on the Earthquake Trail. We've consistently gotten great views from the site and almost always see the grey foxes at the site.
Caroline E
VerifiedApril 7, 2023 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: Coast
*If you are trying to reserve a same day site and it doesn't pop up at 9:30am call the visitors center (they often forget to release the sites)*
- bear boxes are clean and rodent proof, tables are very clean, bathrooms well maintained
- prepare for wind i.e. make sure your stove can handle cooking in the wind and bring a windbreaker. Sites 1-7 are well protected and private. Sites 8-12 essentially are in a giant L shaped field together. Site 10 is the most separated. Sites 8 and 9 have the most people walking through in order to access the bathroom. If you are pitching more then 2 tents I would choose a site 8-12 as many sites 1-7 don't have flat space for 3 tents.
- people are nice and responsible, busy mid week. Still a few campsites no showed even though it all said reserved online.
- some parts of the laguna/firelane trail are very muddy so bring waterproof shoes and extra socks or take coast trail. Parts of the lower campgrounds are swampy but after a while you figure out the best ways to hop, skip jump to dry land
Marcello M
VerifiedApril 5, 2023 • Stayed at: 009, Loop: Sky
Great time!
Arianna B
VerifiedApril 2, 2023 • Stayed at: 003 GROUP, Loop: Wildcat
Wildcat is just a next level backpacking experience. The potable water fountain and bathrooms are, of course, nice amenities, but the views, the wildlife and the sunset over the ocean are top tier. The only problem with this campground is trying to actually get a spot. They don't make it easy, plus it's wildly desirable, making it 5x more difficult to get a spot, let alone on a day or spread of days you'd want. But if you do get a booking, it doesn't disappoint.
Saul S
VerifiedMarch 31, 2023 • Stayed at: 011, Loop: Coast
Beautiful, very wet due to storms. Come prepared
Tracy H
VerifiedMarch 25, 2023 • Stayed at: 007, Loop: Wildcat
Wildcat was amazing. The views on the hike from the Palomarin trailhead were spectacular. Positives - the amazing naturaI scenery, vault toilet was clean and stocked with TP. Negatives were that a person with an off-leash dog (I saw them hiking out) apparently stayed at my campsite the night prior, despite pets not being allowed, and did not pick up after the dog (and the urine smell was pervasive). The bear box was also gross and filled with water, but one must expect that after so much rain. I also wish there was more signage warning visitors of the hazards of the beach between Wildcat and Alamere falls. Heading to the beach I saw just one tiny, worn sign warning that the surf can reach the cliffs at high tide, but it could have easily been missed, and on my way out I encountered hikers coming in who were planning to hike to the waterfall and completely unaware of the tides (I gave them my printed tide forecast - and they were timed to arrive right at HIGH tide). Overall it was an absolutely beautiful place to camp for the night and I will return again and again.
Clark B
VerifiedMarch 25, 2023 • Stayed at: 002 GROUP, Loop: Wildcat
Amazing campsites. With potable water, bear boxes, picnic tables, and clean and well-stocked pit toilets, this is the glamping version of backpacking.
Location Point Reyes National Seashore Campground
Address:
1 Bear Valley Road
Point Reyes Station, CA, 94956
United States
Point Reyes is located approximately 50 miles north of San Francisco and can be approached either northbound or southbound via Highway 101 and Exit 450A/B Sir Francis Drake Highway. Visitors can also reach the park via the longer and winding scenic Highway 1 or the Point Reyes-Petaluma Road.
Public transportation to the Bear Valley Visitor Center from San Rafael along Sir Francis Drake Boulevard is available through the West Marin Stagecoach .
Directions http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/directions.htm for the quickest routes to Point Reyes National Seashore's Bear Valley Visitor Center.
Bear Valley Visitor Center GPS:
Latitude: North 38 degrees, 2 minutes and 27 seconds. Longitude: West 122 degrees, 48 Minutes and 1 second.
Point Reyes National Seashore Campground is accessible via Highway 101, with the nearest interchange at Exit 450A/B for Sir Francis Drake Highway. Additionally, visitors can approach via Highway 1 and Point Reyes-Petaluma Road.
Latitude & Longitude: 38.0412 / -122.8
Elevation: 29 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
12PM
Check out time
12PM
General
- PLEASE READ! NO CAR OR RV CAMPING ANYWHERE IN POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE.! PETS ARE PROHIBITED (only trained service animals are allowed) IN CAMPGROUNDS, AND ON TOMALES BAY BEACHES FOR BOAT-IN CAMPING.! PARKING PERMIT REQUIRED FOR OVER NIGHT PARKING AT ALL TRAILHEADS (a printout of your reservation confirmation face up on your dash serves as a valid parking permit.)! ONLY ONE CAMPGROUND RESERVATION PER NIGHT PER PARTY OR GROUP. ! DON’T BE A “NO SHOW”. Be kind and cancel reserved nights that you will not use.! NOISE: AUDIBLE MUSIC OF ANY TYPE IS NOT ALLOWED. NO INSTRUMENTS OR AMPLIFIED MUSIC. ! NO DISPERSED CAMPING ALLOWED. ! LEAVE NO TRACE: Pack out all your trash. Do not leave trash at the campsite. ! THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO CAMPGROUND FIRES ALLOWED, EVER! BEACH FIRE PERMITS: If fire danger allows, beach fire permits may be downloaded on the Point Reyes National Seashore website. Beach Fire Permits ! WASTEWATER DISPOSAL: Camping wastewater (dishwasher and cooking water) must be discharged at least 100 feet from streams or bodies of water.
- BACKCOUNTRY HIKE-IN SITE INFORMATION> All sites at Coast, Glen, Sky and Wildcat Camp are Hike-In backcountry sites that require hiking or biking in with camping gear for several miles. > THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO CAMPGROUND FIRES ALLOWED. > Charcoal use is prohibited, use only gas stoves for cooking. > Always keep all food or scented items in the provided food lockers.> Possession of a glass container on the water or in a vessel or within 50 feet of any riverbank, lakeshore, beach, on the water or in a vessel is prohibited.> All areas in the park are closed to visitor vehicle parking between the hours of midnight and 6 am with the exception of visitors holding backcountry camping permits may park at established trailheads. Leave a copy of your reservation on the dash of all vehicles associated with camping reservation to serve as a valid parking permit.
- TOMALES BAY BOAT-IN INFORMATION> Boat-in sites are ONLY reachable by Boat. ALL Tomales Bay permits require use of a boat, including group sites on Marshall Beach and Tomales Beach. > Boat Launch and vehicle parking for all Boat-In campsites are located outside of the boundaries of the Point Reyes National Seashore. ! A Wag Bag or portable toilet is required to carry out human waste for all Boat A and Boat B permit holders. > There is NO potable water on Tomales Bay for Boat-In camping- you must bring your own. > Possession of a glass container on the water or in a vessel or within 50 feet of any riverbank, lakeshore, beach, on the water or in a vessel is prohibited.> Boat-in Amenities: NONE. Except for vault toilets on Marshall Beach and Tomales Beach.> Food Storage: Raccoon- and rodent-proof food storage, such as bear canisters or Kevlar food bags are required. > Group Site Permit holders at Marshall Beach and Tomales Beach are required to camp only at Marshall or Tomales Beach. > Marshall Beach allows for two group permits at any one time. Groups 1 and 2 must set up camp in a way that allows room for two parties to be able to share the beach.> Boat A and Boat B Permits are not assigned to specific campsite locations. These permits are authorized for dispersed minimum impact camping within 75 feet of the mean high tide level at any of these select beaches along the west shore of Tomales Bay: *North Blue Gum Beach*South Blue Gun Beach*Pita Beach*White Gulch Beach*Wall Beach*Pelican North Beach*Elk Fence North Beach*Elk Fence South Beach*Tomales Beach*No Name Beach*Marshall Beach*Long Cove Beach*Kilkenny BeachBOAT-IN WEATHER AND SAFETY: Expect calm winds in the mornings with increasing winds from the northwest in the afternoon. Crossing Tomales Bay during Small Craft Advisories issued by the National Weather Service can be hazardous. You are responsible for checking safe weather and tide conditions. You should be an experienced kayaker or be going with an experienced group. ALWAYS WEAR A LIFE JACKET.
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Last updated: June 13, 2026