Tomales Bay Boat-in Camping
4Heads up4 fires, nearest 30 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Tomales Bay boat-in camping is allowed on west-side National Park beaches north of Tomales Bay State Park's northern border (i.e., north of Indian Beach and Duck Cove). These beaches are tidally influenced and generally are small sandy coves backed against steep cliffs. Campers on Tomales Bay beaches must arrive by boat and may not hike, bike, or ride horses to the beaches. Twenty permits are available each day—9 for parties of 1 to 6 people, 8 for parties of 7 to 14, and 3 for parties of 15 to 25.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round · No Toilets
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Sky CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 9.7 mi
Point Reyes National Seashore CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 11 mi
Coast CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 11 mi
Glen CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 14 mi
Wildcat CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 15 mi
Haypress CampgroundGolden Gate National Recreation Area · 29 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Inverness, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 44°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Septembers are colder than the September line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Tomales Bay Boat-in Camping is in California’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Jared Huffman (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →