RV Camping in California

Cathedral Palms RV Resort

62 RV Sites, 1 Onsite RV/Trailer, 1 Apartment

Cathedral Palms RV Resort in Cathedral City, California, offers 62 full-hookup RV sites and an apartment with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 55 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, with EV charging on site. Deluxe and water-and-electric back-ins join the Happy Camper travel trailer rental, with a pool, hot tub, and pickleball courts. Sixty-two back-in sites run in water-and-electric and deluxe full-hookup categories carrying 30 and 50-amp, sized to 55 feet, with site WiFi. EV charging is available — still uncommon at RV resorts and increasingly decisive for guests towing with an electric vehicle. The Happy Camper travel trailer rental and an apartment serve guests without a rig, with check-in for rental units at 3:00pm. A laundry, propane fills, dump station, RV storage, bike rentals, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor the property, with a clubhouse, community fire pit, and dog park besides. Pickleball, bocce ball, basketball, billiards, ping pong, and corn hole fill the competitive calendar, with biking from the property, planned activities through the season, and a golf course and national park nearby. Pets are welcome. Cathedral City sits between Palm Springs and Palm Desert in the Coachella Valley, which puts the region's golf courses, spa culture, national park access, and mid-century modern architecture all within easy reach. Winter is decisively the season in the desert. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $65/night

Yosemite RV Resort

76 RV Sites, 22 Tent Sites

Yosemite RV Resort in Coarsegold, California, offers 71 full-hookup RV sites and 22 tent sites across 35 acres in the Sierra Nevada foothills, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 70 feet. Deluxe+ pull-through, deluxe back-in, and Standard+ back-in categories join an outdoor pool, clubhouse, playground, and dog park 25 miles from Yosemite's South Entrance. Seventy-one sites span deluxe back-in, deluxe pull-thru, Deluxe+ pull-thru, and Standard+ back-in categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Seventy feet accommodates a long coach with a tow, which is generous for the foothills. Twenty-two tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, and showers handle the practical side. One policy to clear first: the resort has a ten-year age restriction on all RVs, though older coaches are reviewed for approval — send a photo to [email protected] before booking. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with a clubhouse, playground, horseshoes, and dog park filling the grounds. Pets are welcome. The address is 34094 California State Highway 41, in Madera County where the blue oak and manzanita hills of the western Sierra rise out of the San Joaquin Valley toward the mixed conifer forest. Yosemite's South Entrance at Wawona is 25 miles north, which puts the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias and Glacier Point within a morning's drive. Summer is peak at Yosemite and the park fills. Reserve well ahead for June through September, and clear RV approval early if your coach is older.

from $73 $63/night

Paradise by the Sea Beach RV Resort

90 RV Sites

Paradise by the Sea Beach RV Resort in Oceanside, California, offers 90 full-hookup RV sites with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, ADA-accessible sites, and rigs accepted to 60 feet, behind a gated entrance on the coast. This is an adults-only resort, with named site categories including Island Back-In, Bamboo Hillside, The Jetty, and Motorcoach Pull-Thru. Ninety sites span group, island back-in, motorcoach pull-through, premium back-in Bamboo Hillside, premium back-in Beach Preferred, and The Jetty categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV and site WiFi, sized to 60 feet, with picnic tables and BBQ pits. Accessible sites are available. Naming categories by position rather than tier makes choosing genuinely easier. A general store, laundry, propane exchange, restrooms, showers, personal mailboxes, and recycling handle the practical side. Note the adults-only policy before booking. An outdoor pool and hot tub and sauna anchor the property, with mini-golf, a game room, arcade, recreation center, clubhouse, billiards, shuffleboard, ping pong, and corn hole besides. A beach, walking trails, community fire pit, dog park, and playground fill the grounds, with surfing, swimming, fishing, hiking, and biking from the area and live music through the season. Pets are welcome. Oceanside sits 90 miles north of Los Angeles with direct I-5 and CA-78 access. The pier, Oceanside Harbor whale watching, the California Surf Museum, and Carlsbad and Encinitas are all close. Summer is peak on the Southern California coast. Reserve well ahead.

from $80/night

Angels Camp RV Resort

60 RV Sites, 7 Cabins

Angels Camp RV Resort in California offers 60 full-hookup RV sites and seven cabins in the Gold Country foothills, with 30 and 50-amp service and rigs accepted up to 100 feet. Back-in and pull-through categories join an outdoor pool, craft room, business center, community fire pit, and pond in Calaveras County. Sixty sites run in back-in and pull-through categories, both carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with site WiFi, sized to 100 feet. One hundred feet is exceptional for foothill terrain and accommodates the longest coaches with a tow. Two straightforward categories keep booking simple. Seven cabins, lodges, and premium tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, dump station, restrooms, showers, RV storage, and boat storage handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a craft room, business center, pavilion, playground, pond, dog park, volleyball, basketball, horseshoes, and swimming filling the rest. Hiking is close, and a national park is within range. Pets are welcome. Angels Camp is the town Mark Twain made famous with his 1865 story about the Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and the Jumping Frog Jubilee still runs every May. The gold rush mining history that shaped the town is visible throughout the Highway 49 corridor, with Calaveras Big Trees State Park's giant sequoias, Mercer Caverns, and the Sierra foothill wine country all close — and Yosemite within a longer day's reach. Spring wildflowers and summer drive the heaviest demand, with the May Jubilee filling the town. Reserve well ahead for that weekend and for June through August.

from $82/night

Golden Village Palms Resort

Golden Village Palms Resort in Hemet, California, is one of the largest RV resorts in the state — a 55-plus destination in Riverside County's Diamond Valley with full-hookup sites, a spa, fitness center, mini-golf, and pickleball courts behind a gated entrance, open all year. Personal mailboxes and RV storage support the long-stay residents who fill it through the winter. Full-hookup sites serve the resort's largely seasonal population, with laundry, RV storage, personal mailboxes, restrooms, and showers handling the practical side, plus WiFi and recycling throughout. Check-in for RV sites is 1:00pm with check-out at 12:00pm; early arrivals and late departures may be available for a nominal fee, and cottage check-in times differ — confirm when booking. The amenity roster is the reason people come. An outdoor pool and spa anchor daily recreation, with a fitness center, clubhouse, craft room, and game room for the social calendar. Pickleball, bocce ball, shuffleboard, horseshoes, volleyball, billiards, corn hole, and sports courts fill the competitive side, with mini-golf and a dog park besides. On-site dining covers meals, live music and planned activities run through the season, and the resort also serves as a wedding venue. A casino, hiking, wine tasting, and hot air ballooning are all nearby. Pets are welcome. Hemet sits in the Diamond Valley between the San Jacinto and Santa Rosa Mountains, in the inland reach of Southern California — warm dry summers, mild winters, and a dramatic mountain backdrop, roughly 30 miles west of the Palm Springs resort corridor across the San Jacinto Fault. Winter is decisively the season. Book well ahead for January through March.

from $64/night

Outdoorsy Yosemite

141 RV Sites, 4 Cabins, 10 Tent Sites, 6 Glamping Sites

Outdoorsy Yosemite in Bass Lake, California, offers 141 full-hookup RV sites, four cabins, 10 tent sites, and six glamping sites in the Sierra foothills, with 30 and 50-amp service, cable TV, and rigs accepted to 40 feet on a big-rig-friendly layout, open all year. Superior back-in, premium pull-through, and standard back-in categories join a pool, clubhouse, boat and kayak rentals, and lake access. One hundred forty-one sites run in standard back-in, superior back-in, and premium pull-thru categories, all carrying water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp with cable TV, sized to 40 feet, with picnic tables. Note the 40-foot cap before booking a larger rig. Four cabins, 10 tent sites, and six glamping sites round out the lodging. A general store, laundry, propane fills, restrooms, showers, and RV storage handle the practical side. Reservation holders must be at least 18, and guests of all ages are welcome. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with boat rentals, kayak rentals, and bike rentals opening the lake for boating, paddle boats, canoeing, kayaking, swimming, and fishing. A clubhouse, game room, billiards, ping pong, basketball, horseshoes, sports courts, walking trails, hiking, mountain biking, a playground, community fire pit, dog park, and on-site dining fill the rest, with strong stargazing and birding. Eighteen miles from Yosemite's South Entrance with Bass Lake's warm water immediately adjacent, this works as both a park basecamp and a lake destination. Summer fills both Yosemite and Bass Lake. Reserve well ahead.

from $44 $38/night

Mendocino Redwoods RV Resort

47 RV Sites, 18 Cabins, 15 Tent Sites

Mendocino Redwoods RV Resort in Willits, CA, offers 47 full-hookup RV sites, 18 cabins, and 15 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 60 feet. Sites run from standard back-ins and standard pull-thrus up through deluxe pull-thrus, end sites, and premium pull-thrus with a private hot tub. Every site carries water, sewer, and electric with cable TV, a fire pit, picnic table, and barbecue. The grounds are gated. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, firewood, propane exchange, and a dump station cover the essentials, and pets are welcome with a dog park on site. The recreation list is genuinely deep for a park this size: an outdoor pool, a water park, a hot tub and sauna, a disc golf course, mini-golf, a game room and arcade, volleyball, basketball, bocce, and horseshoes, plus a bar, snack bar, pavilion, and a barn for larger gatherings. Creek frontage, walking trails, and hiking round it out. Willits sits just off US-101 in Mendocino County, at the junction of the redwood country and the road west toward the Mendocino Coast. Rates for sites, cabins, and tent spots are on the booking page. The premium hot tub pull-thrus are limited and book earliest.

from $46/night

Stagecoach Trails RV Park

115 RV Sites, 17 Cabins, 17 Tent Sites

Stagecoach Trails RV Park in Julian, California, offers 113 RV sites, 17 cabins, and 17 tent sites with dedicated equestrian back-in sites, horse paddocks, and horse pens — the premier horse-camping destination in San Diego County's backcountry. Sites carry 30 and 50-amp full hookups and take rigs up to 100 feet, with an outdoor pool and sports courts on site. Sites run from 30-amp back-ins and pull-throughs to 50-amp pull-throughs and dedicated equestrian back-in sites, all carrying water, sewer, and electric and sized to 100 feet. Seventeen cabins and 17 tent sites round out the accommodations. Horse paddocks and horse pens handle overnight boarding — the infrastructure that makes this a genuine equestrian base rather than a campground that tolerates trailers. A general store covers basics and WiFi reaches the property. The name on the reservation must be present at check-in. On-site recreation serves both the horse crowd and general campers. An outdoor pool anchors the warm months, with sports courts, pickleball, basketball, volleyball, horseshoes, and corn hole across the grounds, plus a playground, dog park, and community fire pit. Planned activities run through the season, and the mountain setting supports strong bird and wildlife watching. Pets are welcome. Julian sits at 4,200 feet, an apple-orchard town with nineteenth-century gold rush roots. Trail riding runs into Cuyamaca Rancho State Park and Cleveland National Forest, and the terrain drops east toward the Anza-Borrego Desert in one of the most dramatic ecological transitions on any Southwest trail system. The four-season mountain climate keeps riding comfortable most of the year. Fall apple season and spring wildflowers are the busiest windows — reserve equestrian sites well ahead.

from $69/night

Redwood Meadows RV Resort

35 RV Sites, 4 Tent Sites

Redwood Meadows RV Resort in Crescent City, CA, offers 35 full-hookup RV sites and 4 tent sites, with 30 and 50-amp service and room for rigs up to 76 feet. Sites come in six categories — back-in 30-amp, back-in 50-amp, deluxe back-in 30-amp, deluxe pull-thru 30-amp, deluxe pull-thru 50-amp, and premium — all carrying water, sewer, and electric. At 76 feet the deluxe pull-thrus take long coaches. Laundry, a bathhouse with showers, a general store, propane fills and exchange, a dump station, and a recreation center cover the essentials. Pets are welcome, with a dog park and a basketball court. The resort's own pitch is about proximity, and it holds up: this is the closest RV park to groceries, shopping, the marina, restaurants, lighthouses, beaches, nature walks, farmers' markets, and the Victorian homes of the area. The resort sits ten minutes east of Crescent City on Highway 199 in Hiouchi, immediately next to Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park — the most intact old-growth redwood grove in the state park system, in a forest that was never logged, on the jade-green Smith River. Rates by site category are on the booking page. Summer in the redwoods books early.

from $35/night

The Retreat at Redwood Shores

71 RV Sites, 13 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 $34/night

The Parkway RV Resort & Campground

21 RV Sites

The Parkway RV Resort & Campground in Orland, California, offers 21 full-hookup pull-through RV sites with water, sewer, and electric on 30 and 50-amp service, sized for rigs to 70 feet. Every RV site is pull-through — a genuine convenience for overnight I-5 stops — with an outdoor pool, a boutique shop, and a dog park on site, midway between Sacramento and Redding. Twenty-one sites run in standard, deluxe, and premium pull-through categories on 30 and 50-amp, all carrying full hookups and sized to 70 feet, with fire pits and picnic tables. Cabins serve guests without a rig. A general store, boutique shop, firewood, laundry, restrooms, showers, and a dump station handle the practical side, and WiFi reaches the property. An outdoor pool anchors the summer, with a dog park for pets and horseshoes and planned activities filling out the on-site calendar. The boutique shop is an unusual touch for an interstate corridor park and reflects the resort's positioning above the standard highway stop. Wine and beer tasting are available nearby. Pets are welcome. Orland sits in Glenn County's upper Sacramento Valley, flanked by the Coast Range to the west and the Cascade and Sierra foothills to the east. Black Butte Lake and the Sacramento Valley wildlife refuges give guests reason to extend beyond an overnight stay. The resort operates year-round on the I-5 corridor, serving both through-travelers and longer Sacramento Valley stays. Summer brings the heaviest highway traffic; with 21 sites, availability can tighten quickly on holiday weekends.

from $78/night

Lemon Cove Village RV Park

47 RV Sites, 10 Tent Sites

Lemon Cove Village RV Park in California offers 47 RV sites and 10 tent sites in the Sierra foothills, with 20, 30, and 50-amp service and rigs accepted to 45 feet, open all year. A Van Life Parking category and a water-only tier join full-hookup and water-and-electric pull-throughs, with an outdoor pool, clubhouse, and general store. Forty-seven sites span pull-thru 30-amp, pull-thru 30/50-amp, water-and-electric 30-amp, water only, and Van Life Parking categories, carrying water, sewer, and electric where noted with site WiFi, sized to 45 feet. The Van Life and water-only tiers are genuinely uncommon and right-size for smaller rigs rather than making them pay for space they cannot use. One billing note: rigs 37 feet or longer, or with two or more air conditioners or other high-draw appliances, may be subject to a $10 per night electrical surcharge. Ten tent sites round out the lodging. A general store, boutique shop, laundry, dump station, restrooms, showers, RV storage, boat storage, and recycling handle the practical side. An outdoor pool anchors the property, with a clubhouse, sports courts, volleyball, horseshoes, gem mining, and a dog park filling the rest. Boating and a river are nearby, and the property operates as a wedding venue. Lemon Cove is the most convenient RV gateway to Sequoia and Kings Canyon, on the CA-198 approach along the Kaweah River in Tulare County. Summer fills the parks. Reserve well ahead.

from $57/night