Steep Ravine Environmental Campground

Tent site was rocky and not level. Room for 2 tents. Path to the site off the dirt road was overgrown and we picked up ticks from walking to and from the site. Pit toilet was ok, bathroom by the cabins was much better. Ground was hard, be sure to bring something to pound in your tent stakes. Lots of condensation in the morning. Earplugs if you are sensitive to ocean noise (no foghorns.). Mice and rabbits (and a dead rattlesnake).

It was my first time at Steep Racine Campground. Love at first site. A little glamorous camp. Must bring sleeping pad, sheets, and blanket/sleeping bag. Bring lights and lots too. It gets really dark at night and you definitely need it for the cooking, reading, and toilet. There is water and a grill by the cabin. You can purchase firewood $10 per bundle. Bring your own coal if you want to grill. Bring your own cooler and lock your food. I had a little visit who loved my avocados and wanted more. Sunset watching and sunrise is amazing. Love!! I hope to come back again.

I absolutely love Steep Ravine but have only ever tent camped. It's an amazing place!! This last trip was the first time I've stayed in one of the cabins. Totally worth the wait. Totally worth the advanced planning. Bring your lights. Bring your bedding. Be ready to be amazed. Amazing sunsets. Amazing private beach. Solitude and relaxation short distance from the city.

Super cute place and you can't beat the location for exploring around the area. We lucked out and were able to get a cabin here on a cold December weekend. All cabins overlook the ocean with pretty windows and have separate rooms for your "bedroom" and storage, as well as decent kitchen/dining area. We were not able to use the stove or make a fire pit the weekend we were there due to some sort of "restriction" sadly, so it made for a very cold weekend--a slight bummer to an otherwise nifty experience. The camp host was also grumpy, and not having indoor plumbing is something to be expected, but I've had it in other cabins like Lassen.On the plus side, the bathrooms and grounds were clean, other campers friendly and quiet, and the place is conveniently located by Point Reyes, Inverness, and other fun places to check out in this gorgeous region.

Family Review: We have three kids (10, 8, 5) and thoroughly enjoyed our stay snug, well maintained Cabin 6.Sleeping: I strongly encourage sleeping mats, foam or lots of blankets to sleep on. The platforms are hard! There are two bedrooms. One has two wide sleeping platforms, (double and extra wide twin) the other has a tiny child size single platform. There is a twin size platform in the main room with the table and wood stove. If you or your child sleep out there you will be awoken by daylight or bring curtains.Several of the windows did have a rod with clips if you wanted curtains. We didn't find that necessary but to each their own.Food: you can cook using the wood stove top, the BBQ behind the cabin (sheltered from wind, bring briquettes) or bring a camp stove. There is a counter to do food prep. I recommend bins to keep things tidy and uncluttered. We brought a kettle and cast iron pan and those worked well for the wood stove top. We supplemented with the camp stove outside.Table: wooden table. Clean enough but I brought a roll of IKEA paper. Kids could create and we could use it as a covering. Table cloth works too. There are two anchored benches and one small extra bench you could bring up to the end if you needed to spread out. It's lovely to eat there and watch the sunsets.Beach:The beach has giant boulders to navigate to access the beach. Make sure you and kids have good footwear for this. Our kids loved this but they are part mountain goat. The beach is great at low tide and we spent hours drawing in the sand, searching tide pools, they made up games. It's wonderful. It's really accessible only by the campground so you have a very uncrowded beach. At high tide you can still go down and stand on the rock section of beach and throw pebbles into the ocean...really we did it for hours!We saw seals, tons of rock crabs, starfish. No fires allowed on the beach.Light: Bring a lantern to hang from the main room ceiling. There is a clip there. Bring headlamps/ flashlight to get to the immaculate bathroom up the hill at night.Misc:Wood stove heats the main room really well, but it doesn't reach the bedrooms well. Have cozy sleeping bags and sleepwear. Fire is $8/bundle cash.Bring games. Bring a book to read out loud. If your bring a puzzle use a sleeping platform to make it or bring a flat surface to work on. The table is not even enough for pieces to stay together.Bathrooms are very clean. Just a flush toilet and sink. I recommend some baby wipes for little hands and feet before bed.I think is goes without saying but there is no electricity so leave electronics at home or plan to charge with your car.Lots of wildlife, quail, deer, newts, birds, etc. we had no wildlife visit us inside.There's a picnic table tuck down the path near the cliff. Take some candles in jars and have a meal outside.These are very cozy cabins. I thought they might be drafty but that not our experience. Grab a night if you can!

This campground is great. Up on the bluff overlooking the ocean. It's got some great campsites but we stayed in a cabin. The bathrooms are super clean and the firewood is available. The rustic cabins are really well kept. It's hard to get a reservation but in my opinion its worth the time to make a plan well in advance. They have a fireplace, a table and room to sleep at least 4 people very comfortably. The sleeping areas are wood platforms so it's a good idea to bring a backpacking mat and a pillow. Large windows give you a great view of the ocean from the table where you can sit and relax by the fire. The beach is nice but the trial down is a little bit tricky. I want to go back here, preferably when the full moon is setting to the west so I can sit by the fire and watch it slowly drop over the horizon.

I can finally write this after 8 years of not so patiently trying to reserve a cabin, so many times at 8am PDT only to have the reserve America system convulse then reject my attempt. Some people say they're booked in hours, HAHAHA, the last few years its immediately within seconds and they are all gone particularly any weekend during the warm season. I have hated this process soooo much, I wish they could develop something to restrict people that have been here before so others can enjoy this place.So now to the review: Best camping experience ever or get a new hobby

This is the most incredible location, but READ THIS INFO BEFORE YOU GO IF YOU BOOKED THROUGH RESERVE CALIFORNIA!I booked a cabin through Reserve California and they failed to send me two key pieces of information prior to my arrival, which I didn't know I would need. First, you need a padlock code for the front entrance gate. Reserve California called and provided me with a code, but it was not the correct code for this entrance! Be sure to call ahead of time and ask for the padlock code for the front gate! Nobody will be there to let you in if you arrive without it. We got lucky and other guests drove up as we were struggling to figure out what to do.Second, we were not sent the padlock code for the lock on our cabin, so we were completely locked out of our cabin when we arrived! Again, you cannot count on the camp host being there and available to help you get into your cabin. You must call ahead of time and track down the code!! We arrived after dark and had to bang and yell and wake the camp host up, but we very well could have had to turn around and go home if he was not home or didn't answer. It seems like Reserve America sends this important information, but Reserve California has not gotten the memo that people who book cabins and campsites need these codes. Call Reserve California and/or whoever else you need to in order to track down these codes, or you could very well be completely locked out!Once you get in, it's the most wonderful place to stay. You can hear the waves crashing on the beach from the cabins, the bluffs are beautiful to wander around and explore on. Don't risk the trip being ruined by being locked out! CALL AHEAD OF TIME AND GET THOSE CODES!

If you get the opportunity to stay here, it's such an amazing place with breathtaking views! Quite the glamping experience! Many people book far in advance (6 months) but keep your eye out for cancellations, you could get lucky that way, too! I don't really think there's a best cabin, all of them are equally amazing with great views! (I could not find a map of cabins). There's also camping but this review mainly pertains to cabin stay. You need to call prior to arrival to get gate and cabin codes. There's no electricity or running water in cabin, it's basically just a shelter, with a wood burning stove. There are water spigots (I believe potable) around grounds and bathrooms (with flushing toilets and sinks). We stayed in Cabin #2 and I believe they are all the same in design. Inside, there's a wood burning stove, table, kitchen nook, single (twin size?) sleeping platform in main room. And down small hallway there's another separate room with smaller (twin size?) sleeping platform (I'm 5'10" and barley fit, lying down but I suppose someone could comfortably sleep there, kids for sure!). And in the last room, there's a small mirror on wall, with two larger sleeping (full/queen size) platforms on opposite ends. I would say 6 adults (maybe one of them being shorter) could comfortably sleep here! And possibly more people, if you like getting cozy! There are no doors in cabin, so everything is open but the nooks give you some privacy. I would also recommend to bring some sort of curtain to hang, maybe on a couple windows? To give you more privacy and if you want to keep any light out at any time? You could easily see in other cabins and with people often wandering around here, a little curtain would've been nice and I noticed others had some hanging. And bring lights! There was a rod with hooks to make hanging any kind of lights easy. We checked in early evening, in December and it was so warm inside cabin we actually had to open window. But I will say it did get pretty cold inside (with no fire going) in middle of night. A late night fire might be a good idea and good, warm sleeping gear! There's beach access down steep grade and other little places to explore around here! We didn't get lucky with hot springs, the tide didn't get low enough, so don't have expectations for experiencing hot springs here (research)! And I'd highly recommend you don't miss the sunset here! This is a pretty good Bay Area find! I'd highly recommend this place and look forward to visiting again in the future!

The purpose of this review is not to address how amazing this place is but rather to inform people about the missing gate code on the reservation confirmation. I camp here a couple of times a year and this is the first time I used reservecalifornia.com to reserve for this campground (it used to be on reserveamerica.com). I packed the car and was about to head out the door before I decided to print the reservation confirmation (which normally has the gate code). It was 8:30pm at night and due to my partner's work event, we couldn't leave until then. That's when I noticed that there was no gate code on the confirmation letter! I tried to call the but I number on the confirmation but got a message saying that they were only available from 8am - 6pm. Anyway, we decided to go anyway since we were already packed and I would have been devastated to have not woken up at Steep Ravine the following morning. We left our car at the top and walked down to the campground (I think it's about a mile). Luckily there was a nice couple that was still awake at one of the camps who gave us the code and offered to drive us back up the steep road to the gate. We were grateful, but declined and walked back up. It was night time and it was cool outside so the walk back up really wasn't that bad. Anway, if you're here because you, like me, thought there was going to be a gate code on your reservation letter and you're thinking... "now wtf do I do?" Don't panic! If you think people will be awake when you get there just walk down and get the code from someone. :P If you've never been to Steep Ravine, be sure to call the number on the confirmation letter while the people are still there to answer the phone!!! Hopefully reservecalifornia.com irons out their quirks soon!