Crescent City Harbor District
Crescent City, California
53 RV Sites
Redwood Harbor Village at the Crescent City Harbor District sits at 159 Starfish Way on the working harbor of Crescent City, California—the northernmost city on the California coast, positioned at the southern edge of the Del Norte County redwood forests and within 10 miles of both Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park and the southern boundary of Redwood National Park. The harbor-front location gives it a character unique among North Coast campgrounds: boat docks, marina access, and a short walk to the harbor's shops and seafood restaurants combined with one of the most ecologically extraordinary redwood landscapes in the world just up the highway.
Full hookup sites with 30 and 50-amp electric service, water, and sewer serve both back-in and pull-through configurations accommodating RVs up to 45 feet. The park is big-rig friendly, and the site layout takes direct advantage of the harbor position with boat dock access and marina proximity for guests arriving or departing by water. Showers and restrooms keep the property's practical amenities functional, and South Beach—the long sand beach that curves south from the harbor mouth—is accessible on foot from the campground. The pet-friendly policy accommodates traveling animals in a coastal setting where the beach provides excellent off-leash terrain where conditions allow.
Crescent City's harbor occupies the southernmost protected harbor on the Oregon-California border coast, where the Pacific's exposure and the absence of natural harbor protection along most of this coastline make Crescent City's anchorage commercially and recreationally significant in a way that stretches of wilderness coast to the north cannot match. The harbor's sportfishing fleet targets Chinook salmon, rockfish, lingcod, and Dungeness crab in the productive cold-water upwelling zone that makes the Del Norte coast one of the more biologically rich stretches of Pacific Coast in California. The working waterfront character of the marina—commercial crab boats alongside recreational fishing vessels and the Coast Guard station—gives the campground an authentically maritime atmosphere.
Jedediah Smith Redwoods State Park, 10 minutes northeast of Crescent City, protects the largest old-growth coast redwood forest in the Del Norte coast redwood ecosystem—the Smith River corridor within the park harbors individual trees exceeding 350 feet in height and several thousand years in age in groves that the Smith River's flooding has maintained by preventing the Douglas fir encroachment that characterizes drier redwood sites. The Howland Hill Road provides an unpaved drive through the park's interior that is one of the most immersive old-growth redwood experiences on the coast, accessible without the crowds that concentrate at Prairie Creek and Humboldt Redwoods farther south. Battery Point Lighthouse, on a tidal island accessible at low tide from Crescent City's waterfront, is one of California's most accessible active lighthouse museums.
Redwood Harbor Village operates through the coastal California camping season in a climate where Del Norte County's consistent marine influence delivers fog, moderate temperatures, and the dramatic storm activity of the Pacific's winter swell season—storm-watching in January and February on this stretch of coast is among the most viscerally impressive experiences on the West Coast. Summer is peak season when the fog lifts regularly and the redwood parks reach their highest visitor density. Reserve ahead for summer holiday weekends when the harbor campground's combination of marina access and redwood proximity fills the property quickly.
What does this place offer
- Bathrooms
- Beach
- Big Rig Friendly
- Biking
- Boat Docks
- Boating
- Dining
- Fishing
- Full Hookup
- General Store
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Location
101 Citizens Dock Rd, Crescent City, CA 95531, USA
Things to know
Check-in:
Check-out:Rules
Check-In Procedure
- While each park attempts to accommodate your exact spot request, the on-site manager makes the ultimate decision regarding spot placement.
Restrooms
- Restrooms are located behind the Harbor Office, and on the north and east sides of the marina.
- They are unlocked during the daytime.
- After hours, contact Security for restroom access.
Showers
- Showers are located in the restrooms behind the harbor office and on the north side of the marina.
- Come to the office for a key or contact Security after hours.
Laundry
- Laundry facilities are available with key access in the building behind the office and in the restroom located on the north side of the marina.
- Come to the harbor office or contact security after hours for a key.
- Both have soap and dryer sheet dispensers.
- Change is available at the office.
Wifi
- Contact Harbor Office or Security for access info.
Dinghy
- You are welcome to tie a dinghy at the Work dock or the Check-in dock when registering, using bathroom/shower facilities, or running brief errands.
- Please be considerate of other boaters and leave plenty of room for other vessels.
Sewage Pump-out
- A sewage pump-out station is located at the check-in dock just in front and to the west of the office.
Extended Stays
- If you would like to stay for longer than a few days, we have discounted monthly and annual rates.
- We can convert any daily rates that you have paid within the last 30 days to a longer-term rate upon credit approval and completion of a Berthing Agreement.
- Check with the office for details.
Security
- Security monitors VHF Channel 16 or can be reached on cell phone 707-954-8341.
Laundry Facilities
- On-site laundry facilities are currently under construction.
- We apologize for the inconvenience, but we will update you as soon as they are up and running again.
Guest Billing Fee
- All outlay, costs, fees, and expenses which the district may incur in collecting the guest billing.
- These costs shall include, but are not limited to: personnel, attorney’s fees, court fees, services of process, investigator, and other costs. ($10.00 minimum fee)
Interest on Accounts Due
- 1.5% interest per month.
- If interest is not timely paid, the amount of interest unpaid will bear interest at 1.5% per month.
- The unpaid interest, so compounded, with not exceed an amount equal to simple interest on the unpaid principal at the maximum rate permitted by law.
- Each payment will be credited first to the interest that is due.
- The remainder of each payment will then be credited to the outstanding principal, and interest will cease to accrue against any amounts so credited.
Late Fee
- If any payment shall not be made on its due date, a late charge of $30.00 shall be charged by the district for the purpose of defraying the expenses incident to handling such delinquent payments.
- Proof of actual damages would be costly or inconvenient.
- Such late charge shall be paid without prejudice to the district’s right to collect any other amount provided to be paid or to declare a default caused by virtue of the untimely payment or from exercising any of the district’s other rights or remedies.
Boat Slip Rental Policies
- A slip will not be rented to any individual with an outstanding delinquent account.
- All slip rentals are subject to availability.
- Any vessel for which there is no current berthing permit and rental agreement on file will be subject to daily rates.
- In order to encourage prompt check-in, any moorage due that is older than one month at the time a new berthing permit is signed will not be switched to the new permit.
- It will remain the responsibility of the vessel owner at the daily rate.
- In order to rent a slip, the applicant must first present for inspection and copying either the official documentation or state registration for their vessel.
- The documentation or registration must be current.
- If the vessel is newly purchased, the applicant must first present for inspection and copying of the bill of sale for the vessel.
- In addition, the new documentation or registration must be presented within 60 days of the initial signing of the berthing permit and rental agreement within 60 days of initial application or the agreement will be terminated.
- All legal owners of the vessel, as listed on the documentation or registration, must sign the berthing permit and rental agreement within 60 days of initial application, or the agreement will be terminated.
Cancellation Policy
MODERATE
If the guest cancels at least 1 week before your check-in day and time, they will receive a full refund (minus Spot2Nite convenience or resort fees). If the guest cancels within the 1 week before check-in, there will be no refund.