This is no longer an RV park, but an uppity, high-end, no-cars-allowed-in-the-park neo-wannabe-Native American Chumash mishmash "refined rural retreat". Basically, all the rv pads were converted to cabins, ranging from canvas tents to cedar cabins. Rates run from $135 to $305 per night. The web site has a history link, which goes all the way back to the creation of the earth by the Great Spirit. The real story comes at the end, where a new owner converted the park to high-end cabins, and is trying to make a buck using New Age philosophy disguised as a reverence for Native American (Specifically Chumash) culture. It's nice enough, I suppose, but very expensive and pretentious and not really for RV'ers. If I wanted to stay in a canvas tent cabin, I would pay $49 in Yosemite, not $150 in Goleta. Feel that wind? It's your money blowing away! We camped here in a Campground Cabins.

We stayed here for about three months in 1999. It is the closest campground (with electricity) to Santa Barbara. Very rustic, lots of trees, running creek. There are two dump stations, or for long term stays they offer pump out at no charge. It's about 20 mi north of Santa Barbara, but is the best place to stay if you are visiting SB. We camped here in a camper.

Dry Camping and full, but what a lovely place! Traffic noise from the freeway was kind of a drag but clean and do-able. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

Rural, dry-camping. Our site 65 was awful, no where near the ocean, across from the old dump station, next to the freeway and not even wide enough for our awning to open. On the plus side, its Reserve America state beach: cheap and woodsy. Just choose your campsite carefully. We may or may not stay here again. We camped here in a Motorhome.

Good over night stop, nice and cool after a long drive from the desert! Great beaches around for shell collectors. A little windy, so watch your hats. Nice place to make a day stop while going north or south. We camped here in a Motorhome.

The campground is nice, but the rules aren't enforced. Dogs that barked all day long. Cars parked in places that they shouldn't, like on the grass at the bike and camp area. Showers were clean but no hot water. We will come back again because we enjoy camping here. We camped here in a Travel Trailer.

This state park campground is right by the ocean. Unfortunately it's also right by Highway 101, so the traffic noise and train noise was loud all night (even with ear plugs). The sites have fire pits, picnic tables, grass and trees. Most of them looked level and were large widthwise, but not always lengthwise. A newer bathhouse was cleaner and nicer than an older one, but overall neither was as clean as the one we used at San Simeon (and that was a Saturday night as opposed to a Wednesday, go figure). There were a lot of tent campers. The park only allows generators between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m., which makes preparing breakfast difficult. We camped here in a Motorhome.

The beach here is beautiful. If you are lucky enough to get a spot (they book up 6 months in advance), enjoy the ocean. The sites are nothing exciting, very old pavement, more like gravel and no hookups, dump station, etc. There is a great bike path that goes from Refugio State Park to El Capitan State Park about 2.5 miles away that has beautiful views. We camped here in a Motorhome.