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Coast Camp, Point Reyes National Seashore

Got lucky with recreation.gov finding a site at Coast Camp in Point Reyes National Seashore on what turned out to be a beautiful weekend in March. Once you've got the reservation, you'll need to pick it up at the Bear Valley Visitors Center, then it's a 15 minute drive to the trailhead parking lot near Point Reyes Hostel. The hike from there is short, officially 1.8 miles. There's a roughly 0.5 mile uphill section, a beautiful flat section, and then a downhill section to the ocean. The campsite locations are here: http://www.nps.gov/pore/planyourvisit/upload/map_cg_coast.pdf We were in camp 1, and in our opinion, it's the best one there because of its unobscured view of the ocean. Camps 2 and 3 are probably not bad, but 4-7 have their views obscured by the low bushes. Nevertheless, 1-7 are to be chosen over 8-14 if there's any choice because, while 1-7 are relatively private, 8-14 are on an open plain, and, at least while we were there, in a bit of a wind tunnel, plus the group sites there can get loud, though 1-7 is not necessarily immune to this. We had a very talkative group of 6 near us that chatted and laughed uninhibitedly until late into the night. There are pit toilets, garbage receptacles and drinking water taps, so it's a pretty full service campsite. The sites themselves have a picnic table, a food storage locker (to stymie racoons/rodents, though we didn't see any), and a charcoal grill. Given the ease of the walk-in, it's a good way to introduce anyone to backpacking.

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