Gold Bluffs Beach (Prairie Creek Redwoods)
Redwood National & State Parks · near Orick / Klamath · North Coast
Camping
At a glance
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Elevation
- 30
- Campsites
- 26 sites
- Season
- Year-round (road access varies)
- Fee
- Varies
Permits and booking
- Reservation required
- Yes
- How to reserve
- Reserve on ReserveCalifornia (6 months ahead). A campground on a wild beach backed by bluffs, where Roosevelt elk roam and Fern Canyon is a short walk/drive. Accessed via a narrow unpaved road (no large RVs/trailers). Solar showers, vault toilets.
What is here
- Setting
- beach
- Amenities
- Camp on a wild beach with roaming elk · Fern Canyon (Jurassic Park) nearby · Redwoods meet the ocean · Bluff-backed remote strand
- Best for
- Camp on a wild beach with roaming elk
- Features
- Camp on a wild beach with roaming elk · Fern Canyon (Jurassic Park) nearby · Redwoods meet the ocean · Bluff-backed remote strand
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Not permitted
- Good for a first timer
- No
Camping detail
- Camp type
- developed
- Intl tip
- Reserve on ReserveCalifornia 6 months ahead. The access road is narrow and unpaved — no large RVs/trailers. Roosevelt elk roam (keep your distance). Fern Canyon and the redwood trails are close (a summer vehicle reservation may apply for Fern Canyon — check). Cool and misty; pack warm. Wild and remote — one of the best.
The guide
Gold Bluffs Beach may be the wildest beach campground in California — a strip of sites on a remote, windswept strand backed by …
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Gold Bluffs Beach (Prairie Creek Redwoods) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.38, -124.064