Wildcat Campground
3Heads up3 fires, nearest 20 mi
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 8All 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
Wildcat Campground is located in an open meadow on a bluff overlooking the ocean with a short walk to the beach. One may access Wildcat Campground by foot, bicycle, or horse; not by boat, auto, or RV. It is a 6.3-mile hike from Bear Valley Trailhead or a 5.5-mile hike from the Palomarin Trailhead. The only bicycling route is via a strenuous 6.7-mile ride along the Stewart Trail from the Five Brooks Trailhead. There are five regular (1- to 6-person) sites and three group (7- to 25-person) sites.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
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 · 11
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
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Coast CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 4.8 mi
Point Reyes National Seashore CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 4.9 mi
Sky CampgroundPoint Reyes National Seashore · 5.2 mi
Tomales Bay Boat-in CampingPoint Reyes National Seashore · 15 mi
Haypress CampgroundGolden Gate National Recreation Area · 15 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bolinas, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 42°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 Augusts are colder than the August 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
Wildcat Campground 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 →