Established in 1922, Richardson Grove State Park was one of California’s first redwood parks. It began with 120 acres—only 1/4 the size of Muir Woods National Monument today. With the help of Save the Redwoods League and other generous donors, the park has grown to 1,800 acres.

A four-hour drive from San Francisco, the park features stunning coast redwoods more than three hundred feet tall and a national “wild and scenic” river (the South Fork of the Eel). Visitors can swim or wade in the river in summer and try catch-and-release fishing for salmon or steelhead in the winter. Check out the walk-through tree and the bat tree; learn from the tree-ring study conducted in 1933. You can camp, picnic, and hike on nine miles of trails. Don’t miss the gentle “racetrack” path, which passes many unusual redwoods, including a chandelier tree with multiple trunks branching several feet above the ground.

Camping — Richardson Grove has more than 160 family sites in three campgrounds. Huckleberry has one site for hikers and bicyclists. Oak Flat Campground is open only during summer. The Dawn Redwood Group, The campground can accommodate from 9 to 40
people.

Richardson Grove State Park Campground

The campsites here are enormous and provide plenty of separation from fellow campers. There are many close hikes and swimming in the nearby Eel river. There is noise from the highway.

Rest among the trees

Went to this campsite two years in a row to see reggae on the river, everytime I was mind blown by the redwoods and I found a nice little river bed too which was super rad.

i loved this location more then my hometown campsites.

ROTR

Rangers were nice, neighboring campers not so much. After a couple night along the coast and in redwoods NP we drove through humboldt which was full and landed at richardson state park. It was the saturday before july 4, so maybe that was it, but not the same crowd as in redwoods np or patricks point. This was loud and full of rv’s and generators. Also someone politely left all their coffee grounds and filters in the fire pit for us, boo.

It is among the redwoods, not as dense or as beautiful as the ones in humboldt.

Bathrooms well maintained, coon operated showers.

Hot and buggy with inconsiderate neighbors

Camp provides showers, bathrooms, water, trash/recycling,  fire rings and benches. The spots are very large. They take reservations as drive up day of (if they have space).
It’s a little pricy but hey, it’s a state park.  

Great camp ground surrounded by sequias 

We got very lucky and got the last site available for the night. We were only supposed to spend the night and continue on but we lingered for hours, not wanting to leave! 