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Lake Piru Recreation Area

228 RV Sites

Lake Piru Recreation Area in Piru, California, offers 228 RV sites on a 1,200-acre reservoir in Ventura County, with 30 and 50-amp service, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 55 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Full-hookup, electric-only, and no-hookup back-in categories serve every budget, with a marina and boat rentals on site. Two hundred twenty-eight back-in sites span full-hookup, electric-only, and no-hookup configurations, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 55 feet, with fire pits, picnic tables, and site WiFi. Accessible sites are available. The tiering by hookup level is genuinely useful — self-contained rigs can take a no-hookup site at a lower rate. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. The reservoir carries the recreation. A marina and boat rentals put guests on the water, with boating, water sports, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing all running from the property. A disc golf course, walking trails, hiking, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, a playground, and a dog park fill the grounds, with planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Lake Piru sits where the Santa Felicia Dam impounds Piru Creek in the Topatopa Mountains, surrounded by the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Los Padres National Forest — one of Southern California's most scenic accessible mountain lakes, roughly 60 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. Summer draws heavy demand from the LA metro. Reserve well ahead for warm-weather weekends.

from $32/night

Lemon Cove Village RV Park

47 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites

Lemon Cove Village RV Park in Lemon Cove, California, provides the most convenient RV park gateway to Sequoia National Park and Kings Canyon National Park in Tulare County's foothills community at the edge of the Sierra Nevada, positioning guests at the Kaweah River corridor where CA-198's approach to the giant sequoia groves begins and the transition from the San Joaquin Valley's citrus agriculture to the Sierra's granite and conifer world unfolds across the drive from the park to the park entrance. Lemon Cove's gold panning access on the Kaweah River and the boutique shop's local products reflect the foothill character of a community whose Sierra Nevada proximity creates the full range of national park experiences—from the General Sherman Tree's 52,500 cubic feet of wood volume to the Kings Canyon's 8,000-foot granite walls—within a 45-minute drive. The park's facility serves the Sequoia and Kings Canyon gateway visitor with practical camping infrastructure and the unique recreation opportunity of gold panning in the Kaweah River's placer gold deposits: a river and stream nearby for the gold panning activity, an outdoor pool, volleyball, horseshoes, sports courts, RV storage and boat storage for extended equipment needs, boutique shop with local products and souvenirs, open year-round operations for all seasons of national park visitation, boating access nearby, pet-friendly policies, showers, bathrooms, laundry, propane fills, dump station, and Wi-Fi collectively provide the services that Sequoia-bound visitors require from a foothill base camp. The swimming access in the Kaweah River's pools during summer provides natural alternative to pool swimming. Sequoia National Park's General Sherman Tree—a giant sequoia measuring 52,500 cubic feet and estimated at 2,100 years old, the largest living tree on Earth by volume—is the anchor attraction of a park that protects the largest remaining groves of giant sequoias in existence in a landscape of sublime Sierra Nevada scale. The Sherman Tree's 36-foot diameter base, the Congress Trail's loop through the Giant Forest's sequoia grove, and the Moro Rock granite dome's panoramic Sierra Nevada views create the Sequoia experience that draws over a million visitors annually to the Tulare County park. The park's Lodgepole and Dorst Creek campgrounds provide the in-park camping alternative for guests whose itinerary includes multiple nights at elevation. Kings Canyon National Park's Kings Canyon—the deepest canyon in North America at 8,200 feet from Spanish Mountain's summit to the Kings River—provides the geological superlative that makes the adjoining national park system's dual-park designation the most impressive combined wilderness in California. The Cedar Grove area at the canyon's floor provides the most accessible deep canyon experience in California's national park system, with the Roaring River Falls and the Zumwalt Meadow trail delivering concentrated natural beauty in the canyon's innermost accessible section. The John Muir Trail's northern terminus at the Mt. Whitney trailhead connects the park to the 211-mile wilderness trail that ends at California's highest peak. Lemon Cove Village RV Park operates year-round in Tulare County's foothill climate, with the spring wildflower season on the Kaweah River corridor from March through May preceding the summer Sequoia visitor peak by weeks in a timing that creates the most uncrowded and comfortable early season national park access from the Lemon Cove base. The summer Sequoia season from June through September coincides with the park's maximum visitor volume and the California heat that makes the Sierra Nevada's cool elevation a primary appeal for San Joaquin Valley residents seeking relief, and the fall season's golden oak color in the park's mixed forest and the reduced crowds that September and October bring create the most rewarding conditions for unhurried giant sequoia exploration.

from $57/night

Sun Outdoors Santa Barbara

79 RV Sites, 24 Tent Sites

In Goleta, California—eight miles west of downtown Santa Barbara on the Santa Barbara Channel coast where the Santa Ynez Mountains' chaparral ridges descend to the Pacific and the Channel Islands National Park's offshore silhouettes anchor the ocean horizon in one of the most visually spectacular coastal settings in California—Sun Outdoors Santa Barbara provides 79 full hookup RV sites on concrete pads, 24 tent sites, a heated pool and spa, an on-site llama and goat farm, docent-led nature trail hikes, and the Santa Barbara wine country and downtown proximity that makes the campground a genuine base for California coastal living rather than a highway overnight stop. The llamas, the docent nature hikes, and the on-site market stocked with craft beer and local wine are the three details that reveal a property designed for a specific and destination-minded guest population. Seventy-nine full hookup RV sites on concrete pads with 30 and 50-amp electric, water, sewer, cable television, and WiFi connections, along with fire pits and picnic tables at every site, constitute the RV infrastructure. Spacious pull-through sites accommodate large motorhomes without the lateral precision that back-in sites impose. Twenty-four tent sites on leveled pads with Adirondack chairs and fire pits provide the tent camping option in the Santa Barbara coastal environment. A heated pool and spa serve the year-round California coastal camping season's aquatic recreation needs across months when an unheated pool would be impractical. A dog park, playground, laundry facilities, and lawn games round out the family recreation amenities. The on-site market—stocked with camping gear, craft beer, and local Santa Barbara County wine—reflects the property's specifically California wine-country orientation and eliminates the drive to a Goleta grocery or wine shop for guests who want to stock the campsite directly. Seasonal outdoor movie nights on the lawn extend the evening programming calendar with the ambient California coastal setting that a movie under the Santa Barbara stars specifically capitalizes on. The on-site llama and goat farm occupies the intersection of agricultural heritage and novelty animal interaction that has proven consistently popular in the California agri-tourism market—functioning not as a theme park attraction but as a working farm adjacent to the campground whose animals are accessible as a practical feature of the property's 55-acre operation. Docent-led nature trail hikes through the campground's natural areas provide the educational natural history programming that the Santa Ynez Mountain foothills' chaparral and oak woodland ecology makes genuinely interesting for the nature-engaged visitor. Downtown Santa Barbara—eight miles east—provides California's most intact Spanish Colonial Revival architectural heritage in the commercial and civic buildings that were rebuilt in the 1920s after a 1925 earthquake destroyed most of the original downtown, creating the stylistic coherence that no amount of planning oversight can produce in a city that wasn't flattened at a moment of strong aesthetic consensus. The Santa Barbara wine country in the Santa Ynez and Santa Maria Valleys, accessible from Goleta via the San Marcos Pass or Highway 101, produces the Pinot Noir and Chardonnay that Alexander Payne's film Sideways made internationally famous from 2004 forward. Sun Outdoors Santa Barbara is open year-round in the Santa Barbara coastal climate that makes year-round camping genuinely viable. The Mediterranean climate—mild winters, warm but not extreme summers, and the marine influence that keeps temperatures moderated across all seasons—makes every month a reasonable time to visit. Reserve early for summer weekends and the Santa Barbara wine harvest season in September, visit the llamas before the pool opens, and let the Channel Islands' offshore silhouettes on a clear morning earn what the California coast looks like when it's not in the fog.

from $75/night

Surf Outpost

95 RV Sites, 35 Tent Sites

Surf Outpost in Malibu, California, offers 95 full-hookup RV sites and 35 tent sites on the Pacific coast, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet. Ocean view, premium ocean view, and XL categories join no-view back-in sites, with beach access across Pacific Coast Highway. Ninety-five back-in sites span no view, no view XL, ocean view, ocean view XL, and premium ocean view categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet, with picnic tables. The category structure is refreshingly plain about what you are paying for — an ocean view or not, and extra length or not. Thirty-five tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Beach access is on foot: down the driveway, right on PCH, then to the signal and crosswalk at the gas station. Stays of four nights or more in September run 20% off, applied automatically. The beach carries the recreation, with surfing, paddle boarding, swimming, hiking, and horseback riding all available. A dog park sits on the grounds. Pets are welcome. The Malibu coast's surf breaks and the Santa Monica Mountains meeting the Pacific make this one of the most photographed coastlines on earth — and full hookups here are genuinely scarce. Summer is peak on the Southern California coast. Reserve as far ahead as you can.

from $75/night

Vinyl Vineyards

4 RV Sites, 6 Vintage RV Rentals

Vinyl Vineyards in Paso Robles, California, offers six vintage Airstream trailers themed to legendary musicians — Billie, Bowie, Cash, Jagger, Janis, and Zeppelin — alongside dry camping sites including an ADA-accessible option, on 120 acres of working vineyard. Sites take rigs to 50 feet, with a pool, hot tub, and disc golf course on the property. The six themed Airstream trailers are the signature accommodation, each named for the musician it is styled after. Dry camping sites accommodate self-contained rigs to 50 feet with fire pits, picnic tables, and BBQ pits, including a dedicated ADA-accessible site — note these are dry sites without hookups, so plan water and power. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and WiFi handle the practical side. You may receive SMS messages before, during, or after your stay; reply STOP to opt out. An outdoor pool and hot tub anchor the property, with a disc golf course and walking trails through the vineyard. The dark rural sky makes for strong stargazing, and birding is productive across the acreage. A golf course is nearby, and wine tasting is effectively on site. Pets are welcome. The vineyard sits on the Union Road Wine Trail in the Adelaida District of Paso Robles — the largest wine appellation in California by acreage, where calcareous limestone soils and marine-influenced temperature swings produce Rhône varietals, Zinfandel, and Tempranillo. The trail's boutique wineries built their identity in deliberate contrast to corporate wine tourism. Harvest season and warm-weather weekends drive demand. With six trailers, reserve well ahead.

Sequoia Resort & RV Park

22 RV Sites, 4 Houses, 1 Apartment

Sequoia Resort & RV Park stretches across 377 acres of Sierra Nevada hillside in Badger, California, sitting at the gateway to both Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in one of the most scenically dramatic corners of the American West. As the closest full-service RV resort to the North Entrance of Kings Canyon, Sequoia Resort is the natural basecamp for exploring two of the most awe-inspiring national parks in the country in a single trip. Thirty-three full hookup RV spaces are designed with privacy walls between sites, providing a degree of separation and intimacy unusual in campground layouts. Each space includes 30 or 50-amp electrical, water, and sewer connections, and ADA-accessible facilities throughout the resort ensure the property welcomes guests of all abilities. Cabin-style vacation rental homes complement the RV sites for groups with mixed lodging preferences. A private lake on the property offers small boat use, and bikes are available for rent — making it easy to explore the resort's expansive acreage without a vehicle. Pets are welcome. The Sierra Nevada foothill setting surrounds Sequoia Resort & RV Park with the sounds and scenery of the mountain forest at every turn — granite formations, canyon oak and pine canopy, and the clean high-altitude air that makes even a simple walk around the grounds feel restorative. The elevation keeps temperatures noticeably cooler than the valley floor below while keeping the national park entrances accessible year-round. Kings Canyon National Park's North Entrance is roughly 35 minutes from the resort, with General Grant Grove — home to the third-largest tree on Earth and one of the most ancient living organisms anywhere on the planet — reachable as an easy morning excursion. Sequoia National Park's famous General Sherman Tree, the world's largest tree by volume, is approximately an hour from camp. The Hume Lake recreation area within Kings Canyon National Forest adds swimming, fishing, and canoeing to the activity roster for guests wanting a water destination closer than the valley floor. Sequoia resort & RV park is accessible year-round, with spring and fall providing the most comfortable temperatures for national park hiking and exploration. Summer is peak season for both parks, and early-morning visits to the most popular sequoia groves are strongly advisable to avoid afternoon crowds. Reservations for peak summer weekends book quickly — secure your site early and plan to arrive with a well-stocked cooler, as the resort's rural mountain position puts the nearest significant town a scenic but meaningful drive away.

from $38/night

Sun Outdoors Paso Robles

287 RV Sites, 36 Cottages

Sun Outdoors Paso Robles in California offers 287 full-hookup RV sites and 36 cottages in the heart of Central Coast wine country, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 50 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, open all year. Elite back-in, elite pull-through, premium, and deluxe categories join a splash pad, hot tub, mini-golf, and bar. Two hundred eighty-seven sites span deluxe back-in, premium back-in, elite back-in, and elite pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 20, 30, and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 50 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Thirty-six cottages round out the lodging — furnished vacation rentals are available if you do not own an RV. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and a concierge handle the practical side. A splash pad and outdoor pool anchor the summer, with a hot tub and sauna alongside. Mini-golf, a fitness center, clubhouse, craft room, game room, arcade, bocce ball, corn hole, golf cart rentals, walking trails, biking, a playground, pavilion, community fire pit, dog park, and bar fill the rest, with live music and planned activities through the season. The resort operates as a wedding venue, and wine tasting, a state park, and a water park are nearby. Paso Robles has become one of the most critically acclaimed wine regions in the country over the past two decades, and the tasting rooms start minutes from the gate. Harvest and summer drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $44/night

Camp Ikigai Animal Sanctuaruy 501c3

20 RV Sites, 3 Cabins, 100 Tent Sites, 1 Glamping Site, 1 Yurt

On 72 off-grid acres in Yokuts Valley in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Fresno County, Camp Ikigai Animal Sanctuary offers an entirely different kind of RV and camping destination—a 501(c)(3) nonprofit farm sanctuary where horses, sheep, dogs, and cats roam freely through the property and guests stay in tent sites, RV and van spots, hammock camping areas, or a tiny cabin on a private deck with sweeping valley views. At 40580 Ruth Hill Road, approximately 30 minutes from the entrances to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks and 90 minutes from Yosemite Valley, the sanctuary provides an off-grid, animal-centered retreat that makes the Sierra Nevada's greatest parks accessible from a setting that's genuinely unlike any other campground in the region. Sites are primitive and the experience is intentionally off-grid—Camp Ikigai functions as a working animal sanctuary first and a campground second, and the accommodation reflects that priority. RV, van, car, skoolie, and tent sites are available alongside hammock camping and the small cabin, with each option providing a different relationship to the farm's natural and animal-centered environment. The private deck and valley views available from the cabin offer a sunset and sunrise experience that rewards those who plan ahead. Water and fire safety practices appropriate to the Sierra Nevada foothill environment apply throughout the property, and guests should arrive prepared for primitive conditions in a genuinely remote setting. Yokuts Valley sits in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada at elevations that transition between the valley floor's agricultural character and the higher-elevation conifer forest that begins above 4,000 feet. The property's 72 acres encompass oak woodland, chaparral-covered hillsides, and the private valley terrain that creates the views from the upper portion of the property. The sanctuary's animals—horses with established individual personalities, sheep, and a resident dog and cat community—move through the space freely, creating unexpected encounters and the kind of interspecies observation that's simply not available in any conventional camping environment. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, jointly administered and together encompassing more than 1,300 square miles, protect the world's largest trees by volume—the giant sequoias of the western Sierra Nevada—alongside the deepest canyon in North America, the High Sierra's most dramatic alpine terrain, and the headwaters of the Kings and Kaweah Rivers. General Sherman Tree, the world's largest living thing by volume, stands in Giant Forest. Kings Canyon's Canyon View Trail descends into one of North America's most spectacular river canyons. The parks receive far fewer visitors than Yosemite despite matching its scenic grandeur, making the experience measurably less crowded during peak summer season. Camp Ikigai operates year-round, with the foothill location providing milder winter temperatures than the high Sierra and a spring wildflower display on the hillsides that makes March and April particularly rewarding. Summer days are warm in the foothills but the higher elevation provides meaningful relief from the Central Valley heat. Advance reservations are required for all site types, and the nonprofit nature of the operation means that booking directly supports the animal sanctuary's ongoing work. Reserve your site at Camp Ikigai and let the Sierra Nevada foothills, the resident animals, and the valley views create a camping experience that no conventional RV park can approximate.

from $21/night

Riverbend RV Park

52 RV Sites

Riverbend RV Park in Blossvale, New York, offers 139 full-hookup RV sites on the southwestern shore of Oneida Lake, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 55 feet, open year-round including winter. Basic and deluxe River East categories join boat docks, a boat ramp, beach, and recreation center on the largest lake entirely within New York State. One hundred thirty-nine back-in sites run in River East basic and River East deluxe categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 55 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Cabins round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. The park operates year-round and winter camping is permitted — check current pricing and availability. The lake carries the recreation. Boat docks and a boat ramp give direct access for boating, canoeing, kayaking, fishing, and swimming, with a beach on the property. A recreation center, game room, craft room, clubhouse, walking trails, biking, a playground, dog park, and on-site dining fill the grounds, with live music, planned activities, and productive birding along the shoreline. Pets are welcome. Oneida Lake anchors central New York's inland lake recreation, and Sylvan Beach sits close by. Year-round operation makes this viable well outside the summer window, including ice fishing season. Summer boating is the peak — reserve well ahead for July and August weekends.

from $75/night

Boulder Creek RV Resort

68 RV Sites, 3 Cabins

Boulder Creek RV Resort in Lone Pine, California, offers 68 full-hookup RV sites and three cabins at the foot of the Sierra Nevada, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 60 feet. Back-in and pull-through 30/50-amp categories join a pool, hot tub, spa, recreation center, and library beneath Mount Whitney. Sixty-eight sites run in back-in 30/50-amp and pull-thru 30/50-amp categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Accessible sites are available. Three cabins round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, and RV storage handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub, sauna, and spa anchor the property, with a recreation center, clubhouse, library, playground, dog park, and walking trails filling the grounds. A lake and creek support fishing, hiking runs in every direction, and planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. The setting is among the most visually spectacular of any campground in California. Mount Whitney rises to 14,505 feet — the highest peak in the contiguous United States — directly above the Alabama Hills, whose rounded granite formations have served as the backdrop for hundreds of films. Lone Pine sits in the Owens Valley between the Sierra's eastern escarpment and the White Mountains, with Death Valley to the east. Spring and fall are most comfortable in the Owens Valley, with summer bringing Whitney permit-holders and hikers. Reserve well ahead for the climbing season.

from $45/night

Arrowhead Tree Top Lodge

1 Cabin, 19 Hotel Rooms

Arrowhead Tree Top Lodge in Lake Arrowhead, California, offers 20 cabin and hotel-room accommodations at 5,100 feet in the San Bernardino Mountains, with an outdoor pool, walking trails, and a creek on the property. A wedding venue and mountain setting serve guests two hours from Los Angeles. Twenty cabins and hotel rooms make up the accommodations — this is lodging rather than an RV park, with no sites or hookups. Restrooms and showers serve the property, with WiFi throughout. The lodge also operates as a wedding venue, which the pine and cedar setting supports well. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with walking trails through the forest and a creek running the property. Birding is productive across the mountain terrain, with swimming from the area and a lake, golf course, wineries, and skiing all nearby. The elevation is the point. At 5,100 feet in the rim country above the Inland Empire, mountain air runs 20 to 30 degrees cooler than the valley floor below — which is the entire reason Southern Californians make the drive. The Rim of the World Drive's panoramic views stretch across the San Bernardino Valley to the Pacific horizon, and the contrast between elevation and valley is what gives the Lake Arrowhead corridor its character. The lodge serves guests year-round. Summer heat in the valley drives the heaviest demand as visitors escape uphill, with winter bringing snow and ski traffic to the same corridor. Reserve well ahead for summer weekends and holiday periods.

from $119/night

Lakeshore Resort

22 RV Sites, 7 Cabins

At the eastern end of Huntington Lake in the Sierra Nevada at 7,000 feet elevation—a mountain reservoir in Sierra National Forest where the John Muir Wilderness begins on the opposite shore and the High Sierra backcountry opens in all directions from the lake's edges—Lakeshore Resort has been receiving campers, anglers, boaters, and High Sierra explorers since the 1920s. The resort's combination of RV sites, cabin rentals, restaurant, saloon, general store, and marina creates the self-contained mountain lake community that the Sierra Nevada's remote elevation campgrounds can rarely sustain, and the high-country landscape of Huntington Lake provides the visual and recreational context that makes the resort worth the drive up Highway 168. This is California mountain camping at its most complete. RV sites with full hookups, 30-amp electric, campfire rings, and picnic tables accommodate rigs up to 40 feet in length—meaningful at a mountain destination where the size restriction would otherwise eliminate many larger rigs from consideration. Cabin rentals provide the fully enclosed alternative for guests who want the mountain lake experience without a camping setup, and the resort's laundry, showers, and bathrooms serve both RV and cabin guests across the property's full occupancy range. The restaurant and saloon provide on-site dining and the evening social gathering space that mountain resort guests across California's elevation campground history have come to associate with Lakeshore specifically—a dining room with the character and history of a century-old Sierra resort. The general store handles provisioning, and the marina with boat docks provides watercraft access, rental boats, and the infrastructure that makes Huntington Lake's 1,500 acres of 7,000-foot elevation water genuinely navigable for guests without their own boats. A walking trail from the campsites along the creek and down to the lake connects the camping area to the water directly. Huntington Lake's high-elevation character provides a natural environment of specific appeal. At 7,000 feet, the lake sits in a landscape dominated by red fir, lodgepole pine, and the granite that defines the Sierra Nevada's geological identity—a combination that produces the cool summer temperatures, afternoon thunderstorm pattern, and crystalline air quality that the Central Valley's summer heat drives visitors upward to seek. Kokanee salmon, brown trout, rainbow trout, and catfish populate the lake, making fishing from the dock, from a rental boat, or from the resort's waterfront among the most reliable high-elevation angling experiences in the central Sierra. The John Muir Wilderness, accessible directly from Huntington Lake's trailheads, provides the High Sierra backcountry experience that the resort's position at the wilderness edge makes possible with zero additional driving. The Kaiser Wilderness, accessible from the north shore, provides a second wilderness area with its own trail system and high-country lakes accessible for day hikes from the resort's elevation base. The combination of resort-level comfort—restaurant, saloon, store, marina—and immediate wilderness access is specific to Huntington Lake's position and is not replicated at most Sierra Nevada campgrounds, which offer one or the other but rarely both. Lakeshore Resort is open from late April through October, weather and snowpack permitting, with the full season running from Memorial Day through Labor Day. The high elevation makes July and August the most reliable months for full-access recreation. Reserve the full hookup site early for summer, bring the fishing rods and the hiking boots, and let the 1920s Huntington Lake resort tradition earn its hundred-year reputation.

from $114/night