Location: County: Sonoma. Nearest City: Bodega
Bay.
Campsites, facilities: Bodega Dunes: There are
98 sites for tents or RVs up to 31 feet long, with a limit of
eight people per site. Picnic tables, fire grills, and piped
water are provided. Flush toilets, showers, and a sanitary disposal
station are available. Laundry facilities, supplies, and horse
rentals are available within one mile. Leashed pets are permitted,
except on the trails. Pomo Canyon: There are 21 walk-in
tent sites. Picnic tables and fire grills are provided. Piped
water and pit toilets are available. No pets are permitted. Wrights
Beach: There are 30 sites for tents or RVs up to 27 feet
long, with a limit of eight people per site. Picnic tables, fire
grills, piped water, and flush toilets are provided. Pets are
permitted.
Reservations, fees: Bodega Dunes: Reserve by
phoning 1-800-444-PARK/7275 ($7.50 reservation fee); $14-$16
per night, $5 for each additional car, $1 pet fee. Pomo Canyon:
No reservations; $10 per night, $5 per night for each additional
vehicle. Wrights Beach: Reserve by phoning 1-800-444-PARK/7275
($7.50 reservation fee); $18-$20 per night, $5 for each additional
vehicle, $1 pet fee.
Contact: Phone the beach at 1-707-875-3483 or 1-707-865-2391
or fax 1-707-865-0147.
Sonoma Coast SB
3095 Highway 1
Bodega Bay CA 94923
Operating hours, seasons: Call the park for information;
open all year round.
Directions: Bodega Dunes: From Petaluma on U.S.
101, take the East Washington exit, drive west through Petaluma
(it becomes Bodega Avenue), and continue to Highway 1. Turn north
on Highway 1 and drive to Bodega Bay. In Bodega Bay, drive one
mile north to the campground entrance. Pomo Canyon: From
San Francisco, drive north on U.S. 101 to Petaluma. In Petaluma,
take the East Washington exit and turn left (west). (This street
becomes Bodega Avenue.) Drive through Petaluma for 26 miles to
Bodega Bay, where the road merges with Highway 1. Continue north
on Highway 1 past Bodega Bay for about 10 miles. Turn right (east)
on Willow Creek Road and drive about three miles to the campground.
Reaching the campsites requires a one- to five-minute walk. Wrights
Beach: From Petaluma on U.S. 101, take the East Washington
exit and drive west through Petaluma (it becomes Bodega Avenue)
and continue to Highway 1. Turn north on Highway 1 and drive
to Bodega Bay. In Bodega Bay, drive six miles north to the campground
entrance.
Weather, clothing: The weather can be changeable; layered
clothing is recommended.
Trip notes: Sonoma State Beach features coastland with
beaches, reefs, coves, tidepools, headlands, and natural arches.
With more than ten miles of shoreline 5,000 acres, this state
beach is one of the largest in the state. The park stretches
from Bodega Head to the Russian River. There is a five-mile trail
system in the dunes. The beach is home to one of California's
largest seal rookeries. In the winter, Bodega Head is one of
the finest whale-watching site on the North Coast. The park is
also home to many kinds of seabirds. The ocean bay and river
frontage offers perch, salmon, steelhead and smelt fishing. The
beach features several great campgrounds, and, if you like the
beach, this one rates high. It is set at the end of a beach that
stretches for miles, providing stellar beach walks and excellent
beachcombing during low tides. To the nearby south is Bodega
Bay, including a major deep-sea sportfishing operation with excellent
salmon fishing in June and July, and outstanding prospects for
rockfish and lingcod from August through November.
© 2001, Miwok Lodge 439, Order of the
Arrow, Santa Clara County Council Inc., BSA
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