Sandy Beach Park

I am a beach girl so I love the actual beach on the coast BUT I will say this place was pretty great. For me closer drive and no windy roads. Easy drive to/through Rio Vista. Parking was only $8, they do offer Campground options as well. I will say they fill up fast, its a small beachy area. The water was not as icy as the coast and no big crazy waves. Great for kids. Water was pretty shallow for a while until you got further out. They do allow boats and jet skis since they have a launch area so you might see some waves from them but they should go slow around area. Overall very clean, nice bathroom and shower area as well. No complaints!!!

I would not camp here or come her in general again! the park people excessively patrol every little thing. i understand doing it a couple times a day but every hour & sometime multiple time in 1 hr is a bit much let people camp & stop regulating every little thing. no dogs allowed by water but are allow at the camp area. I did not see a sign saying no dog by the water! if there is no sign than add one! this place does not give me your typical camping vibe feel like I'm in someone's backyard.

Sandy Beach Campground in Solano County. Address: 2333 Beach Dr, Rio Vista, CA 94571.Friday, 7/28 - Sunday, 7/30/2023 - Love this little Campground. Rangers constantly drives through to make sure everyone is safe. Beach isn't too far a walk.Pros:1) RV and tent camping. Full RV hookup. These are reserved spots.2) there's a bench to use and a little firepit with a grill attached to it for bbq-ing. Some camp site doesn't have shade, so bring your own shade. Others have lots of shade. Lots of trees on the outer camp sites. 3) there's a water spicket at each camp site. Bring your own water hose to make it easier for you to use. We did. 4) the beach is not too far away from the camp site. Easy walk to the beach area. From our campsite 9 to the beach is like 1,200 feet. Estimate only. 5) it's mostly windy at this camp site, which i loved! Not too windy, in my opinion. But enough wind to keep away the flies and mosquitoes! I didn't even have to use any bug spray. 3 days camping and not one mosquitoe bite! Yay! And no flys flying around our foods or landing on them. 6) for us this past weekend, it was warm from 10am ish to about 2 or 3pm ish with light winds. But after that, the wind will pick up. At night its very windy, buy not too cold. In the mid 50s degree. 7) in the Campground area, there is a bathroom. Women's side had 1 stall to use. The other stall is a free shower with hot and cold water. Yay! Wear your sandels when you go shower. There's a water fountain outside the bathroom and bottle refill station. 8) beach is tiny, but cute. Water wasn't too cold. Or maybe kids can just swim in any cold water. Beach is soft and sandy Beach. 9) they do have day use/day pass as well. There's a bathroom in this area. You do have to pay for parking at this area. 10) there are park Rangers that monitors in and out going vehicles. They do shut the gate when the park is full. 11) there is a dump site to rid your dirty water from your RV for $15. 12) $8.00 daily parking & $12 park and boat launch Cons1) no way to control this, but it can get pretty windy. Lots of trash from other people's camp site came into ours. Our camp site was trashed by the time we left on the 3rd day. We didn't even use our site and only went to our friend's site to hang out, cook and eat. I sure hope the park Rangers didn't think we trashed our site and left. Lol2) Conclusion I like this campsite. Free shower with hot/cold water (door locks), bathroom, drinking fountain, water bottle refill station, full RV hookup, tent camping, firepit with BBQ grill inside it, table with wind blocker/shade thingy, sandy Beach, volleyball area, windy to keep away the bugs (it gets pretty windy late late at night that you can feel your RV moving), beachy area for kids to build a sand castle. No life guards on duty. Staffs were nice to us. Our fellow camping neighbors were very nice as well. We had no issues. Sunday, my friend told me she went to shower in the morning and that someone was puking in the toilet. She can hear the puke falling on the ground as well. Maybe they were too drunk, I don't know. By the time I got to the bathroom later in the afternoon, it was already cleaned up! But you can still see some of the splash marks from the puke residue on the floor. To the working staffs: GREAT WORK trying to clean this up as fast as you can so it won't gross out other campers! https://www.solanocounty.com/depts/rm/countypark/sandybeach.asp

I love this beach! It's close to home, it's always clean, the park rangers are always nice, the sand is so soft, and the waters never too cold. They have picnic areas with grass, picnic benches, bbq, & even wind breakers. I had forgotten my 2 yr old grandsons life jacket and they had a life jacket for me to borrow!

Sandy Beach is the closes camping place from Vacaville. It has pull through spots for each camper as well as a fire pit and picnic table. If it's too sunny near the picnic table, then they have added a piece to provide shade or even shelter in the rain. The bathrooms were clean. No dogs in the day use area of the beach. But they seemed to be allowed in the camp area. The staff I spoke with who were maintaining the grounds were friendly and nice. We have camped here several times, but not yet this year. Looking forward to it.The dump is now $15 and has been redone, you pay with a credit card on your way out. Plus if you don't want to cook, the pizza place in Rio Vista will deliver to your camping spot, or they did a few years ago.

Huge amounts of space. Short walk to the Sandy beach. Flush toilets, and AC power. I used an RV adapter HAUL-MASTER 30 Amp Male to 15 Amp Female RV Pigtail Power Adapter and extension chord to run power to my tent. Possibilities were endless. Only downside was the gale force winds that would sneak up on you but it just felt more like an adventure that we were camping in tornado country. There were some red ants found but they didn't cause any issues. Was expecting huge fly issues but the winds took care of that. Firewood was like $13 a box at the nearest convenience store. Ranger made his rounds and was polite and friendly. I think we exceeded the max person limit but it wasn't an issue. Beach was kid friendly and no strong currents or insects but YMMV.

I enjoy coming down to sandy beach to get fresh views and fresh wind to touch sand and all that .

We came for a picnic during the day and really enjoyed ourselves! I really appreciated how handicapped accessible it was since I was having to push my little one around in her stroller. The bathrooms were very clean as well. There is plenty of picnic tables and shade and BBQ grills. Theres a short downhill path that takes you down to the beach swimming area if you feel like taking a dip! Overall the grounds were well kept. There was a $6 day use fee to come in for a picnic. They also offer camping, but im not sure what the price is for that. Its very beautiful here and I love that its only 30 mins away from where I live! Perfect day trip if you have kids. Come check it out!

This place is terrible! We had a group picnic. My family and I got there at 12:50pm because my husband had to work in the morning. When we got there the park ranger said that the park was close, that it was at "capacity". I called someone from our group to tell them and they said that there was still parking. He went to the park ranger to tell her but she still said no. I asked that if a car would come out, if we can go in and very rudly she said no. Just know that they close the park whenever they feel like it.

It's a nice and clean place but they need to understand that dogs are part of the family, really not dogs allowed?!! I think this is very wrong. Please change this absurd policy