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The Retreat at Redwood Shores

71 RV Sites, 15 Cabins, 17 Tent Sites

The Retreat at Redwood Shores in Eureka, California, offers 71 RV sites, three cabins, and 10 tent sites across 10 acres on Humboldt Bay, with 30 and 50-amp water-and-electric service and rigs accepted to 72 feet. Premium, pull-through, back-in, and standard categories join a dry camping tier, with an outdoor pool, mini-golf, and dog park. Seventy-one sites span back-in, standard, premium, pull-thru, and dry camping categories, carrying water and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 72 feet. Two things to plan around: the sites carry water and electric but not sewer, so manage tank capacity accordingly, and the dry camping tier gives self-contained rigs a lower rate. Seventy-two feet is generous for the North Coast. Three cabins and 10 tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with mini-golf, bocce ball, a playground, dog park, swimming, picnicking, and planned activities filling the grounds. Pets are welcome. Eureka sits where the Humboldt Bay estuary meets the southern edge of the coastal redwood ecosystem — the tallest trees on earth, in the only place they grow. The Avenue of the Giants runs south and Redwood National and State Parks north, which puts the two great redwood drives within reach of a single basecamp. Old Town Eureka's Victorian architecture, the Sequoia Park Zoo and garden, the Humboldt Botanical Garden, Fort Humboldt, and Madaket harbor cruises are all close. Summer is peak on the Redwood Coast, when the fog lifts and the parks fill. Reserve well ahead for July through September.

from $31/night

Crescent City Harbor District

53 RV Sites

Redwood Harbor Village at the Crescent City Harbor District sits at 159 Starfish Way on the working harbor of Crescent City, California—the northernmost city on the California coast, positioned at the southern edge of the Del Norte County redwood forests and within 10 miles of both Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park and the southern boundary of Redwood National Park. The harbor-front location gives it a character unique among North Coast campgrounds: boat docks, marina access, and a short walk to the harbor's shops and seafood restaurants combined with one of the most ecologically extraordinary redwood landscapes in the world just up the highway. Full hookup sites with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer serve both back-in and pull-through configurations accommodating RVs up to 45 feet. The park is big-rig friendly, and the site layout takes direct advantage of the harbor position with boat dock access and marina proximity for guests arriving or departing by water. Showers and restrooms keep the property's practical amenities functional, and South Beach—the long sand beach that curves south from the harbor mouth—is accessible on foot from the campground. The pet-friendly policy accommodates traveling animals in a coastal setting where the beach provides excellent off-leash terrain where conditions allow. Crescent City's harbor occupies the southernmost protected harbor on the Oregon-California border coast, where the Pacific's exposure and the absence of natural harbor protection along most of this coastline make Crescent City's anchorage commercially and recreationally significant in a way that stretches of wilderness coast to the north cannot match. The harbor's sportfishing fleet targets Chinook salmon, rockfish, lingcod, and Dungeness crab in the productive cold-water upwelling zone that makes the Del Norte coast one of the more biologically rich stretches of Pacific Coast in California. The working waterfront character of the marina—commercial crab boats alongside recreational fishing vessels and the Coast Guard station—gives the campground an authentically maritime atmosphere. Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, 10 minutes northeast of Crescent City, protects the largest old-growth coast redwood forest in the Del Norte coast redwood ecosystem—the Smith River corridor within the park harbors individual trees exceeding 350 feet in height and several thousand years in age in groves that the Smith River's flooding has maintained by preventing the Douglas fir encroachment that characterizes drier redwood sites. The Howland Hill Road provides an unpaved drive through the park's interior that is one of the most immersive old-growth redwood experiences on the coast, accessible without the crowds that concentrate at Prairie Creek and Humboldt Redwoods farther south. Battery Point Lighthouse, on a tidal island accessible at low tide from Crescent City's waterfront, is one of California's most accessible active lighthouse museums. Redwood Harbor Village operates through the coastal California camping season in a climate where Del Norte County's consistent marine influence delivers fog, moderate temperatures, and the dramatic storm activity of the Pacific's winter swell season—storm-watching in January and February on this stretch of coast is among the most viscerally impressive experiences on the West Coast. Summer is peak season when the fog lifts regularly and the redwood parks reach their highest visitor density. Reserve ahead for summer holiday weekends when the harbor campground's combination of marina access and redwood proximity fills the property quickly.

from $37/night

Coastal Pines RV Resort

59 RV Sites

On Humboldt Bay in Eureka, California—in the redwood coast's most significant commercial city, where the Victorian architecture of Old Town, the fishing pier culture of the bay's working harbor, and the 40-mile radius that contains both Redwood National Park and the Coast Range's most intact temperate rainforest create a Northern California stopping point of genuine and multilayered quality—Coastal Pines RV Resort provides 59 full hookup sites with complimentary high-speed WiFi, 75-plus satellite television channels, and walkable access to the 6.3-mile Humboldt Bay waterfront trail that connects the resort to Old Town's restaurants, galleries, Victorian neighborhoods, and the waterfront character that Eureka has maintained more successfully than any other North Coast city. The trail access, the Old Town proximity, and the Redwood parks' 40-minute driving range make Coastal Pines the campground that Eureka's layered visitor experience deserves. Fifty-nine full hookup sites include 45 pull-through positions, accommodating the range of RV lengths up to 45 feet with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer connections. Complimentary high-speed WiFi covers the property's full footprint, and 75-plus satellite channels at each site provide the entertainment infrastructure for extended-stay guests. Modern shower rooms and restrooms, coin-operated laundry, and mobile RV repair service available on request complete the practical infrastructure. The 6.3-mile Humboldt Bay waterfront trail accessible directly from the resort provides the most immediately impactful amenity: a pedestrian route along the bay's edge connecting the campground to Old Town Eureka's restaurants, bars, boutiques, galleries, and the Victorian architecture that makes Eureka's historic core a walking tour of specific and photographable quality. The Redwood Market adjacent to the campground provides gas and diesel with the proximity that eliminates the navigation detour that fuel stops typically impose on arriving guests. Old Town Eureka's Victorian architecture reflects the wealth that the Humboldt County timber industry generated in the late 19th century and deployed in the construction of the painted-lady houses, the ornate commercial facades, and the Carson Mansion—considered one of the finest examples of Victorian residential architecture in the United States—that define the district's visual character. The Blue Ox Millworks, operating as a working Victorian mill and artisan complex within the Old Town area, demonstrates the craft skills that built the original houses and continues to produce the gingerbread millwork that restoration projects across the country purchase for historically accurate renovations. The Samoa Cookhouse—a surviving lumber camp cookhouse across the bay, operating as a restaurant that serves lumber-camp-style meals at long tables with no menu choices—provides a historically specific dining experience that exists nowhere else in California. The Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, accessible by the bay trail or by car from the campground, provides birding access to one of the Pacific Flyway's most important wintering shorebird habitats. Redwood National and State Parks—encompassing the world's tallest trees in old-growth redwood groves accessible on trails ranging from half-mile easy walks to all-day backcountry routes—are 30 to 50 minutes north on US 101, making Eureka a practical base for multiple days of redwood exploration without paying the premium pricing of the Klamath and Crescent City campground markets. Coastal Pines RV Resort is open year-round in Eureka's cool maritime climate, where the fog and mild temperatures that the ocean moderates make every season comfortable for RV occupancy. The redwood parks are open year-round, Old Town is active year-round, and the bay trail's coastal scenery is as rewarding in the winter gray as in the summer's occasional clear days. Reserve your pull-through site, walk the bay trail to Old Town for dinner, and let Humboldt Bay and the redwood coast earn the Northern California reputation that travelers who stop here almost always wish they had planned more days for.

from $43/night

Riverwalk RV Park

18 RV Sites

Riverwalk RV Park in Fortuna, California, offers 18 full-hookup pull-through RV sites alongside the Eel River, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 65 feet. Every site is pull-through, with an outdoor pool, spa, clubhouse, and recreation center at the southern gateway to Humboldt County's redwood coast. Eighteen pull-through sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and high-speed internet, sized to 65 feet. Every site pulling through means no backing after a long drive up US-101 and no unhitching for an overnight. A general store, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool and spa anchor the property, with a clubhouse, recreation center, billiards, ping pong, and horseshoes covering indoor and social hours. Walking trails run along the river with fishing, hiking, and swimming from the area, and a playground serves families. Fortuna sits at the southern gateway to the California Redwood Coast, and the corridor north is the reason to stay. Ancient coastal redwood forest, wild Pacific coastline, and Victorian-era fishing communities extend from here through the heart of Humboldt County — one of the most remarkable natural landscapes in the American West, and one that rewards more than a single day. The park serves both US-101 through-travelers and guests basing themselves for the redwoods. Summer is the peak, with the coast staying mild and the parks busy from June through September. With 18 sites, reserve ahead for warm-weather weekends.

from $65/night

Lakeshore Resort - Lakehead

39 RV Sites, 10 Cabins, 1 Cottage

On the banks of Lake Shasta in Lakehead, California—five minutes off Interstate 5 in Shasta County where the Sacramento River, McCloud River, and Pit River meet behind Shasta Dam to create California's largest reservoir at 29,000 surface acres and 365 miles of shoreline in the Klamath Mountains' forested landscape—Lakeshore Resort provides a historic lakeside retreat with 39 RV sites and 11 cozy cabins under towering ponderosa pines, a seasonal swimming pool, a restaurant and bar, and the position as one of the few private resorts directly overlooking Lake Shasta's waters, with boat launches and swimming accessible within minutes of the resort property. For I-5 travelers making the run between Sacramento and Portland who want more than a truck stop, and for Shasta Lake anglers and houseboaters who want a comfortable land base, Lakeshore delivers the lake character the drive north is working toward. The 39 RV sites provide hookup service under the ponderosa pine canopy in the Lakehead community on the lake's northern arm, with the Lake Shasta views and the resort's direct water proximity creating the lakeside camping atmosphere that the inland California mountain reservoir delivers. Eleven cabins in the pine-forest setting alongside the seasonal pool, restaurant, and bar provide the complete resort infrastructure for guests without a rig in an environment the forested Shasta County lakeshore makes appealing beyond its I-5 convenience. The restaurant and bar serve the evening social function for both RV guests and cabin occupants, and the pool provides the warm-weather complement to the lake swimming that the property's close water access enables. Lakehead sits on the Sacramento River arm of Lake Shasta in the northern Sacramento Valley/southern Cascade Range transition zone, in the Shasta County landscape where the Interstate 5 corridor's passage through the Klamath Mountains creates the dramatic change in terrain from the valley floor to the mountain environment that marks the most visually significant transition on the entire I-5 corridor between Los Angeles and the Canadian border. The Pit River Bridge over Lake Shasta on I-5—at 500 feet above the lake surface, one of the highest interstate highway bridges in the United States—provides the introduction to the Shasta Lake landscape for northbound travelers that makes a stop in Lakehead feel like a logical response to the view. Shasta Dam, five miles south at the head of the Sacramento River arm, stands as one of the most impressive concrete structures in the American West—the second-tallest concrete dam in the United States at 602 feet, completed in 1945, whose visitor center and tours explain the Central Valley Project's water management infrastructure and the dam's construction history. The Shasta-Trinity National Forest's 2.2 million acres surround the lake in the mixed conifer and chaparral landscape that provides the hiking, fishing, and the dispersed camping that supplements the resort's infrastructure. Lake Shasta's bass, trout, salmon, and kokanee fishery makes it one of California's most productive multi-species lakes. Lakeshore Resort operates seasonally with the peak summer season from Memorial Day through Labor Day when the lake's houseboating fleet fills the 365-mile shoreline and the warm mountain summer temperatures make the pool and lake swimming the daily activity anchor for families and groups. The spring season from April through May offers the lake at its most full—the snowmelt from the Klamath Mountains and the Sierra feeds the reservoir to high-water levels that maximize the shoreline access and the scenic impact of the lake in the green, flower-season landscape. Reserve your RV site or cabin at Lakeshore Resort and let Lake Shasta's 365-mile shoreline, the ponderosa pines, and the northern California mountain landscape make the I-5 corridor's most impressive water body the destination rather than the backdrop.

from $53/night

Antlers RV Park & Campground

65 RV Sites, 39 Tent Sites

Antlers RV Park and Campground in Lakehead, California, offers 65 full-hookup back-in RV sites and 39 tent sites overlooking Shasta Lake, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 75 feet. A single back-in category means every guest gets the same spec, with a private boat launch, slip rentals, outdoor pool, and general store five minutes off I-5. Sixty-five back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp, sized to 75 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. One category and no guesswork — and 75 feet accommodates a long coach with a tow, which is generous for a lakeside property on sloping terrain. Thirty-nine tent sites, cabins, and trailer rentals round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, restrooms, showers, and firewood handle the practical side. A private boat launch, boat rentals, and slip rentals open the lake for boating and swimming, with an outdoor pool, sports courts, volleyball, basketball, ping pong, horseshoes, a playground, and picnicking filling the rest. Planned activities run through the season. Pets are welcome. Directions southbound: take the second Lakehead exit (702) for Antlers Road / Lakeshore Drive, turn left, right onto Antlers Road at the stop sign, and continue about 1.5 miles. Shasta Lake is California's largest reservoir, and this is one of the few private camping resorts that genuinely overlooks the water — houseboating, bass fishing, and the Shasta Caverns are all here, with Mount Shasta rising to the north. Summer lake season drives demand hard. Reserve well ahead for June through August.

from $33/night

Ashland's Creekside Campground

9 RV Sites, 25 Tent Sites

Ashland's Creekside Campground & RV Park offers a straightforward and comfortable place to stay for travelers visiting Ashland, Oregon. With full and partial RV hookup sites and tent camping options with and without power, our property is designed for guests looking for a convenient stop while exploring the area. Enjoy an inexpensive way to stay in Ashland, get back to nature, and camp under the stars. Relax in a peaceful park-like setting and take in the natural beauty that surrounds our property. Once you have stayed at Ashland’s Creekside Campground, you'll want to come back year after year.

from $39/night

Turtle Rock RV Resort

6 RV Sites

Turtle Rock RV Resort in Gold Beach, Oregon, offers six RV sites with 30 and 50-amp full hookups and cable TV, sized for rigs to 85 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Site categories include creek view back-ins and — distinctively — a back-in site with its own hot tub, on a small resort near where the Rogue River meets the Pacific. Six back-in sites carry water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV, sized to 85 feet, with fire pits. Categories run standard back-in, creek view back-in, and back-in with hot tub, the last a genuinely uncommon feature at an RV site. A general store, propane fills, laundry, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout. Group stays require a one-night non-refundable deposit per reserved site at booking; group facility rates are available by phone. On-site recreation is deeper than six sites would suggest. A hot tub and sauna, a game room with billiards, a disc golf course, bike rentals, volleyball, horseshoes, and corn hole fill the property, with on-site dining for meals and planned activities through the season. Pets are welcome. Gold Beach sits in Curry County where the Rogue River — federally designated Wild and Scenic — meets the Pacific at the historic bar. The Samuel H. Boardman State Scenic Corridor's viewpoint trails run south along some of the most spectacular and least-visited coastline in the contiguous United States, and Rogue River jet boat tours, coastal hiking, and year-round crabbing and ocean fishing all run from town. Summer is peak on the southern Oregon coast. With six sites, reserve as early as you can.

from $61/night

Sunny Valley Campground

Sunny Valley Campground in Wolf Creek, Oregon, offers large, shaded full-hookup RV sites on a big-rig-friendly property along the I-5 corridor between Medford and Roseburg. An outdoor pool, hot tub, clubhouse, and general store serve both through-travelers and guests basing themselves in the Rogue River country. Full-hookup RV sites accommodate large rigs, with the shade a genuine advantage in southern Oregon summers. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side, with WiFi throughout. Pets are welcome. An outdoor pool and hot tub anchor the warm months, with a clubhouse, community fire pit, and playground on the grounds and volleyball and horseshoes besides. Hiking, biking, and swimming run from the area, with planned activities through the season and a national park within reach. The campground sits near the confluence of Grave Creek and the Rogue River, in a stretch of southwestern Oregon defined by rugged canyon terrain, dense mixed conifer forest, and one of the premier wild-and-scenic river systems on the Pacific Coast. That makes it a practical basecamp for the whitewater, hiking, and natural heritage of the greater Grants Pass and Rogue River region, as much as a convenient stop for travelers passing through. The park serves the I-5 corridor year-round, with summer rafting and hiking season driving the heaviest demand alongside cross-state travel. Reserve ahead for warm-weather weekends, when the Rogue corridor fills with both through-traffic and destination visitors.

from $25/night

Klamath Falls RV Resort

58 RV Sites

Klamath Falls RV Resort in Oregon offers 58 full-hookup RV sites along US-97 in the Klamath Basin, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout. Deluxe, premium, and standard back-in and pull-through categories join a hot tub, spa, fitness center, recreation center, and tennis. Fifty-eight sites span standard back-in 50/30-amp, standard pull-thru, deluxe back-in 50/30-amp, premium back-in 30/50-amp, and premium pull-thru 50/30-amp categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric with site WiFi, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits. Seventy feet accommodates a long coach with a tow. A general store, laundry, propane fills and exchange, restrooms, showers, and golf cart rentals handle the practical side. No wristbands are needed to use the amenities, and each space rental includes a set number of guests — confirm when booking. A hot tub, sauna, and spa anchor the property, with a fitness center, recreation center, clubhouse, game room, arcade, tennis, volleyball, basketball, shuffleboard, walking trails, a lake, playground, and dog park filling the rest. A state park is nearby. The Klamath Basin sits at just over 4,100 feet, surrounded by high desert valleys, ancient lava beds, and vast wetlands that form one of the Pacific Flyway's most important migratory corridors — the waterfowl concentrations here in spring and fall are genuinely spectacular, and the winter bald eagle population is the largest in the lower 48. Crater Lake and Lava Beds National Monument are both within reach. Summer and the spring and fall migrations drive demand. Reserve well ahead.

from $50/night

Mendocino Magic

Mendocino Magic in Laytonville, California, is a multi-format camping destination in inland Mendocino County offering RV sites, glamping setups, and traditional tent camping — a versatile outdoor accommodation property in the US-101 corridor of the North Coast Range where the Eel River's wild and scenic stream country, the Cahto Wilderness, and the drive to the Mendocino Coast's redwood groves, sea stacks, and art galleries give guests the most complete North Coast camping experience available from a campground positioned between the redwood coast and the inland mountain valley. Laytonville's Mendocino County position on US-101, 45 miles east of the Mendocino coast and 50 miles south of Humboldt Redwoods State Park, gives the campground the specific North Coast corridor character of a property at the intersection of the coast road's scenic tourism appeal and the inland mountain valley's quieter outdoor recreation character. RV sites, glamping setups, and traditional tent camping give Mendocino Magic the complete spectrum of overnight outdoor accommodation in a single Laytonville property — the glamping format specifically gives the comfort-seeking non-camper the curated outdoor accommodation experience that the Mendocino County inland mountain setting sustains without the tent camping infrastructure logistics, and the RV site gives the self-contained traveler the hookup service for the North Coast leg of the US-101 coastal tour. The campground's multi-format accommodation reflects the specific Mendocino County market of the coastal artisan and agricultural heritage tourism that the North Coast's unique culture sustains. Pets are welcome. Humboldt Redwoods State Park, 50 miles north of Laytonville on US-101 in Humboldt County, protects the largest remaining contiguous old-growth coast redwood forest in the world — 17,000 acres of ancient Sequoia sempervirens forest in the Eel River's Bull Creek drainage where the Avenue of the Giants 32-mile scenic alternate to US-101 passes through the Rockefeller Forest's 10,000-acre old-growth stand, the world's largest preserved ancient redwood grove, in a grove of trees that include the confirmed tallest individual specimens in the forest. The coast redwood's maximum height of 380 feet and the 2,000-year age class of the Bull Creek drainage's oldest trees give the Humboldt Redwoods the specific scale and antiquity that no other temperate forest in the Northern Hemisphere matches. The Mendocino Coast, 45 miles west of Laytonville via CA-162 and CA-1 at Fort Bragg, provides the dramatic sea stack and headland coastline of the Mendocino Headlands State Park, the Mendocino village's Victorian architecture and artist colony character, and the Noyo Harbor's working fishing fleet and salmon charter boat operation that give the Fort Bragg-Mendocino corridor its specific combination of natural coastal scenery and North Coast cultural heritage. The MacKerricher State Park's 10 miles of beach north of Fort Bragg and the Glass Beach's sea-polished glass deposits give the Mendocino coastal day trip its accessible natural and geological attractions. Mendocino Magic serves guests through Mendocino County's North Coast camping season, with the spring whale migration from February through April giving the coastal viewpoints their spectacular gray whale observation and the summer fog season from June through August creating the coastal marine layer conditions that the inland Laytonville valley's warmer, clearer summer temperatures specifically complement for the guest who values the inland camp over the often-foggy coast campground in the summer. The Cahto Wilderness in the Mendocino National Forest gives the campground's immediate backcountry hiking access in the Laytonville area's inland mountain terrain. Reserve sites and glamping accommodations ahead for the summer US-101 coastal tourism season and the fall harvest season in Mendocino County's wine and apple country.

Rising River RV Resort & River House

20 RV Sites

Rising River RV Resort & River House in Roseburg, Oregon, offers 20 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 65 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, with 1,100 feet of South Umpqua River frontage. River back-in and pull-through categories sit just off Interstate 5 in Umpqua Valley wine country. Twenty sites run in river back-in, pull-through, and small pull-through categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 65 feet. The small pull-through option is useful for compact rigs that do not need a full-length site. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, showers, and a recreation center handle the practical side. Guests are asked to review and agree to the park's policies and hold-harmless statements before arrival. Pets are welcome. The river frontage is the draw — 1,100 feet of the South Umpqua gives this the most river-adjacent position of any campground in the greater Roseburg area. Swimming runs from the water, and a dog park serves pets. Roseburg sits in Douglas County just off I-5, and the surroundings reward a stay. The Wildlife Safari is a 10-minute drive, and the award-winning Umpqua Valley wineries surround the property — southern Oregon's Applegate and Umpqua AVAs produce serious wine without the visitor density that the Willamette Valley now carries. Summer river season and harvest drive demand. With 20 sites, reserve ahead for warm-weather weekends.

from $76/night