Reef Campground

Ocean cove campground was full so we found ourselves at Reef Campground — totally unexpected and not planned but we LOVED it. The ambiance was if better than ocean cove if you are looking for camping in the redwoods (which we were). We were in site #3 for a night! It was great, clean bathrooms, dog friendly, quiet and mellow! Gorgeous coastal views/​hike. We did have a raccoon visitor right before we went to bed but once we put the food and cooler in the car and went into the tent, didn’t hear them anymore! We will definitely be back next year!

My wife and I pulled in here today to see if there was any available camping sites. We saw that it was full, so we decided to just drive in to see what they looked like, so that we could possibly stay here next time we found ourselves coming up the Coast Highway 1.
No sooner than we get into the park, and go to turn around at the end (no more than 3 – 5 minutes), an extremely rude ranger came up to try and write us a ticket for parking without paying.
She tried to claim we had to have been there a couple hours since she did not see us coming into the park. After I called her on her B.S. she told me «I am a firm believer in Karma, so I won’t write you a ticket this time.» Sure, if by believing in Karma, she meant not blatantly trying to rip people off.
You could tell by the look on her face that she knew she was in the wrong, but was trying to play it off.
So after she said her spiel, I just ignored her as she kept on babbling, and took off… not worth the aggravation.
Other than that, the campgrounds don’t look too bad, although some are very close together.
Unfortunately after a bad experience with park staff like this, I have no interest in returning, and will advocate the same to those that I know.

A ditch off the highway. A nice ditch, with ~20 tiny campsites. But, never again will I pay $ 25.00 for one night of cars tumbling around the corner and mischievous raccoon buggers bouncing around all night. Continue on down the road to Salt Point for a truly spectacular experience!

Campground about 3 minutes south of Fort Ross. It’s not really developed much, and is basically just a road that runs along a gully between two hills with spots off to the side to camp. There are some more developed/​paved spots for lower riding cars off to the side, but some of the less developed sites are on more rugged terrain. They do provide fire pits and picnic tables and have bathrooms, which I don’t believe are lit. Running water is available, but the whole set up is very rustic. BRING BRIGHT FLASHLIGHTS! There are some cold showers, for people to rinse off by the at the end of the central road which turns into a small parking lot for beach access. This used to be a totally first come first serve place and does have more sites than the nearby campground at Stillwater Cove (Regional/​Count Park vs this which is State Run), so was our second choice of campgrounds if we needed a last minute place to stay and the one at Stillwater Cove was full. OK campsite, but there’s definitely ones with more amenities out there if you’re less of the outdoorsy type.

Came here for the weekend to have some fun for my birthday. Stayed on site 8. I highly suggest site 3 or 3 and 2 if you can get both. More secluded and shady, nice for the hot weekends. The place is dog friendly and the rangers were totally great about that. There are 2 beaches: the sandy beach is off limits to dogs, the dog friendly beach is really rocky, but great for tide pooling. There are some wonderful dog friendly beaches closer to Bodega, south of this campground. I will definitely come back again.