“as seen in the movie jurassic park!”
Thirty miles north of Eureka, Patrick’s Point State Park sits on a lushly forested promontory beside the Pacific Ocean. The one-square-mile park is densely packed with potential adventures. On a short walk around the perimeter of the park, you can hunt for agates, explore tidepools, and walk through a jungle of shrubs and trees as you peer out at seals, sea lions, and migrating whales. In the park’s interior, you’ll find a visitor center, a native plant garden, and a reconstructed Yurok plank-house village. You can picnic or wake up to birdsong at one of three campgrounds. In summer, you can witness a traditional ceremony at Sumêg Village or take a hike led by a docent or professional naturalist. Patrick's Point was also used in the movie Jurassic Park.
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If you are looking for a great camping site on the North Coast of California, then look no more. The Patrick Point State Park is the ideal place for you to spend some of the most beautiful camping moments ever.
The scenery of the Park is equally dramatic, spectacular and picturesque. Very few places on Earth fill you with so many varied feelings, no wonder why this place was chosen for some scenes of the block buster movie Jurassic Park.
Tall redwoods, pine trees, wild flowers, mix up with wild life , and great rock formations that fight eternally with the huge power of massive waves!!! What a great place for hiking, bicycling or even just sitting and staring totally speechless at the breath taking surrounding landscapes.
We stayed in site 52 and the back of our campsite had a trail that backed onto a small cliff area with an unbelievable view of the ocean. But there are many campsites to choose from depending on your needs and expectations. But all of them are clean and tidy and definitely not over crowded, giving you the opportunity to spend some quality time in nature while not feeling unsafe for being to isolated!!!
Probably the greatest highlight of our stay there ??? The seductively majestic sunset, probably one of the best sunset spots in the world!!!!
Great place for hiking, landscape photography l. If you are as lucky as me you can spot the Whale. The day when I visit there was three close to land and you didn't need binoculars to spot them.
May 2013
Family road trip south. Beautiful stopping point. I would love to stop in again and explore more.
This is a must stop for coastal exploration, views, and hiking. Save a few hours for hiking and photos.
Upon arrival the park rangers made check in very easy. It was a little difficult trying to figure out the proper flow through the campground as there were no directional arrows. I’m a little bit embarrassed to say that as a California resident how run down this California park is. We were informed by the park ranger when we checked in to not use the bear box and we could certainly see why. I’m pretty sure a chipmunk could have knocked it over. Our picnic table was completely rotting away . The shower facility was iffy if you were going to get hot water and the handicap shower was broken. While the campground is very clean The bare minimum is done to maintain it and the dump site hasn’t worked in years. The saving grace is the giant redwood trees and cool weather! Oh by the way don’t even think about taking your dogs off of the pavement onto a hiking trail. The campground was quiet yet you could hear the waves crashing in the distance. Very peaceful.
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Days Stayed: 5
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We were staying at the nearby Sounds of the Sea RV Park and frequently checked reserveamerica.com to see if a spot opened up at the park directly. We got lucky and were able to snag a 1 night stay. Our site (98) was one of the larger, more secluded spots we saw in the park.
This park is beautiful and there is plenty to do! There are a lot of Jr. Ranger Programs during the summer that the kids absolutely loved, you can look for agates on the beach, hike along the bluff, visit the Sumeg village, and check out the tidepools.
The only thing that would make it better would be Verizon signal, but we made the most of the night we spent there and caught up on work the next day.
Nightly Rate: $35.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 98
There are several state and federal parks along the northern California redwood coast. This is one of the best. Fantastic ocean views and sunsets from bluffs adjacent to the campground. A fabulous beach over 5 miles long. If you chose to walk its length you are nearly guaranteed to be the only person for miles in either direction the further from the campground you hike.
The campground is like many California State Park campgrounds. Heavily used and facilities somewhat dated. The main access roads are paved and easy to navigate with a longer trailer in tow. The pads are gravel and as level as gravel pads go. Expect to do a little leveling work. I'm sure the park was designed with tent camping in mind. Not all sites can accommodate longer RVs and trailers so check prior to reserving. Regarding reservations, these are mandatory if you need to have availability on a specified date during the summer. Sites are taken quickly as they open. Good luck just showing up.
The park itself is very large. There are two campgrounds separated by a large open area. I prefer to camp in the Agate campground as its closest to the beach (Agate Beach). It also have more of the larger and flatter campsites. There are numerous hiking trails within the park. It's a great place for kids to ride their bikes.
I give the park a five star. The campground and campsites themselves, maybe deserve three stars, but the park, the beach, the surrounding redwoods is all five star. No cell service, but so what.
Nightly Rate: $35.00
Days Stayed: 3
Site Number: 113
RV Type: Travel Trailer
Patrick’s Point is the favorite campground of my youth... probably mostly due to the hours and hours of scouring the Agate Beach for the elusive beauties. I have spent many a damp night camping in a tent and cooking cowering under a makeshift tarp. Agate fever I suspect.
It was nice to experience it again from the comfort of our RV even though there are no hookups. You drive through the day use parking area to get to the Agate Beach Loop. A number of the sites have good privacy, some are more level and deeper than others. It appears that four rentable cabins have been added opposite the dayuse parking lot.
Having just worked our way down the Oregon Coast we couldn’t help but compare the price and amenities of Oregon and California State Park Campgrounds. In the last two parks in Oregon we had electric and water hookups for less than nothing here. I never thought that would matter, but it does.
Nightly Rate: $35.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 109C
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Scenic, great sunsets, close to redwood country but expensive for what you get - antiquated bathrooms, sites close together & noon checkout instead of 2 pm. Suggest USFS or County parks as better alternative and lower cost. We moved to Panther Flat USFS cg on the beautiful Smith River, paid $15 and were still in redwood country.
Nightly Rate: $35.00
Days Stayed: 2
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After spending a month in many beautifully maintained Oregon State parks, it was incredibly disheartening to be back in my home state and see how poorly maintained and neglected Patrick's point state park is. The trails and scenic wonders of the beach , bluffs, and forest did much to revive our spirits but the campgrounds are disgraceful. We asked to be moved to a different site after finding that our reserved site reeked and was disgustingly FILLED with feces, urine stench, and rotting fruit. Agate loop is dense with over grown shrubbery and vines, sites are small, not level, and the restrooms were horrible. The bottom of the stall doors are higher than the toilet seat, they are dirty (not in a nature campy way) and dilapidated. The showers are on par with the bathrooms. Walls that were way too short, I would not have been able avoid seeing the entire upper half of a person in the next stall. A quarter buys you 30 seconds of COLD water. The wooded, more spacious Abalone loop was better, but still had lots of trash around, poor bathrooms and even poorer showers. The roads within the park had areas that were very narrow and rough with some tight turns that would be difficult to impossible for bigger rigs and no signage to alert visitors of this. The park web site and reserveamerica both list a dump station as an amenity but the dump was not working and clearly hadn't been for some time. Since we boondock on BLM and FS land interspersed with state parks in order to get access to showers and a dump station, this was a problem for this visitor's well planned trip. This spactacular place deserves better treatment and the high fees in totally full campgrounds sure don't seem to be going into the park facilities.
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Days Stayed: 2
Site Number: 84, 107
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