Prairie Creek (Elk Prairie)
Redwood National & State Parks · near Orick / Klamath · North Coast
Camping
At a glance
- Difficulty
- beginner
- Elevation
- 150
- Campsites
- 75 sites
- Season
- Year-round
- Fee
- ~$35/night
Permits and booking
- Reservation required
- Yes
- How to reserve
- Reserve on ReserveCalifornia (6 months ahead). Camp among old-growth redwoods beside a meadow where Roosevelt elk graze. Showers, RV sites (no hookups). Gateway to the James Irvine Trail and Fern Canyon.
What is here
- Setting
- forest
- Amenities
- Old-growth redwoods & elk meadow · Showers · Fern Canyon & Gold Bluffs nearby · James Irvine Trail
- Best for
- Redwoods with roaming Roosevelt elk
- Features
- Roosevelt elk graze the meadow · Old-growth redwood sites · Fern Canyon & Gold Bluffs Beach · Newton B. Drury Scenic Parkway
Worth knowing
- Dogs
- Allowed
- Good for a first timer
- Yes
Camping detail
- Camp type
- developed · rv
- Intl tip
- Reserve on ReserveCalifornia 6 months ahead. Roosevelt elk graze Elk Prairie (keep your distance, especially in fall rut). Hike the James Irvine Trail to Fern Canyon; visit Gold Bluffs Beach. Drive the Drury Parkway. Showers; RV-OK. Cool and misty. Combine with the whole Redwood NP.
The guide
Prairie Creek Redwoods offers a quintessential redwood-coast experience: camp among towering old-growth trees beside Elk Prairi…
In the Guidebook
Everything above is yours for free. The written guide to Prairie Creek (Elk Prairie) — what it is actually like, and what we would tell a friend before they went — comes with the Guidebook.
Getting there
- Coordinates
- 41.36, -124.021