MacKerricher State Park is a little under 4 Hour drive from our house. The campground is right next to Fort Bragg. The RV camping fee is $40 per night. there are 140 campsites to accommodate tents and recreational vehicles. there are picnic tables, food storage lockers and a fire ring at each site.
Restroom are nearby with hot showers for a fee. The dump fee is $10. Free portable water at the dump station. There are three zones in this campground. Surfwood, East pine and West pine. West pine campground is closes to the ocean.
From our campsite it's about 5-minute walk to the beach, there is also a lake nearby for paddle boarding kayaking and fishing.
Just a short trek from the campsite is Laguna Point. The beach is part of the State Park. at low tide the point exposes tide pools for exploration.
There's also a boardwalk that leads you out to panoramic viewing platform. Called the Seal Watching Station.
The bike trail we rode our ebikes on is called the 10 mile beach Trail. We started at our campsite and rode to fort Bragg and back. Which was just a total of 6 miles. This stretch is one of the largest uninterrupted whale-watching spots on the western coast.
Pacific gray whales can be seen on their migration route from December to April. Along the way we also stopped at Glass Beach and the Skunk Train, while visiting the Model Train Museum.
Just eleven miles north of our campground is the,Russian Gulch State Park
where we hiked a three-mile trail along the park’s rocky coastline.
Along the coast, waves crash into a collapsed sea cave called Devil’s Punchbowl, and the Frederick W. Panhorst Bridge rises 100 feet from the bottom of the gulch.
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