Established in 1922 and named after Friend W. Richardson, the 25th governor of California,
the park is bisected by Hwy. 101 and the south fork of the Eel River. Camping, hiking, swimming, and just relaxing are popular
ctivities throughout much of the year. Fishing for salmon and steelhead is during the winter.
- Distance: 10.40 Miles.
- Reservation Availibility: Yes
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Camping Types:
Group Campsite
Campsite
Tent Campsite
Cabin (2 People)
Cabin (3 People)
- Make your reservation at ReserveCalifornia.com
Benbow State Recreation Area is popular for camping, hiking, swimming, and picknicking in the summer, as well as salmon and steelhead fishing in the winter. The Campground and Day Use areas are separated by the South Fork of the Eel River, which was formerly dammed every summer to create Benbow Lake. In order to restore vital habitat for Chinook, Coho salmon, and summer-run steelhead, the dam was completely removed in 2017. Benbow Day Use Area is a popular summer gathering place that also hosts the annual Summer Arts and Music Festival. The Day Use Area is open year-round, while the Campground is open Memorial Day – Labor Day on a first-come, first-served basis.
- Distance: 13.49 Miles.
- Reservation Availibility: Yes
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Camping Types:
Campsite
Tent Campsite
- Make your reservation at ReserveCalifornia.com
MacKerricher State Park offers a variety of habitats; beach, bluff, headland, dune, forest and wetland. Tidepools are along the shore. Seals live the rocks off the park's Mendocino coast. More than 90 species of birds visit or live near Cleone Lake, a formal tidal lagoon. During winter and spring the nearby headland provides a good lookout for whale watching. The park is popular with hikers, joggers, equestrians and bicyclists. Fishing is also popular, with trout in two fresh-water lakes. The park has a wheelchair accessible nature trail.
- Distance: 27.11 Miles.
- Reservation Availibility: Yes
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Camping Types:
Group Camping
Group Campsite
Campsite
Hook Up (E/W/S) Campsite
Hike In Primitive Campsite
Tent Campsite
Hike/Bike Campsite
- Make your reservation at ReserveCalifornia.com
In the early 1900s, loggers came to what is now Humboldt Redwoods State Park to cut down lofty ancient redwoods for grape stakes and shingles. The founders of Save the Redwoods League thought that was akin to “chopping up a grandfather clock for kindling.” From the acquisition of a single grove in 1921, the League has raised millions of dollars to build and expand this park. Today Humboldt Redwoods spans 53,000 acres, an area almost twice the size of San Francisco. About one third, or 17,000 acres, of the park is old-growth redwood forest—the largest expanse of ancient redwoods left on the planet.
This park offers one of the best places to see redwoods by car in the entire North Coast region: the 32-mile-long Avenue of the Giants. Good stops along the way include Founder’s Grove, with its fallen 362-foot Dyerville Giant, and the California Federation of Women’s Clubs Hearthstone, designed by famed architect Julia Morgan.
- Distance: 31.19 Miles.
- Reservation Availibility: Yes
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Camping Types:
Campsite
Tent Campsite
Hike In Primitive Campsite
Equestrian Group Campsite
Equestrian Group Primitive Campsite
Equestrian Campsite
Group Tent Campsite
Group Camping
- Make your reservation at ReserveCalifornia.com
Van Damme State Park consists of 1,831 acres of beach and upland on the Mendocino Coast.
The park features the lush Fern Canyon scenic trail system; the Pygmy Forest where mature, cone-bearing cypress and pine trees
stand six inches to eight feet tall, and the bog, or Cabbage Patch, where skunk cabbage grows in abundance. The park's ten
miles of trail go along the fern-carpeted canyon of Little River. A paved road is used by joggers and bicyclists. The beach is
popular with abalone divers. Hike-in sites do not allow dogs.
- Distance: 41.89 Miles.
- Reservation Availibility: Yes
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Camping Types:
Campsite
Group Campsite
Hike/Bike Campsite
- Make your reservation at ReserveCalifornia.com
Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, located on the tranquil Van Duzen River, is a 400-acre gem of a park that has everything. The campground is set between the river and HWY 36, offering several sites with river frontage. With only 28 sites, reservations are highly recommended during the summer months. If you are interested in our group camp, please call the park directly. Grizzly Creek is also a very popular day-use park with many families returning every weekend from the surrounding areas to BBQ and swim.
- Distance: 43.13 Miles.
- Reservation Availibility: Yes
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Camping Types:
Campsite
Tent Campsite
Group Tent Campsite
- Make your reservation at ReserveCalifornia.com
