Preview: This park is the granddaddy of all the incredible California state parks. Big Basin has wonderful camping as well as tent cabins with interior wood stoves. Lovely Wastahi Campground is all walk-in tent campsites, with the farthest campsite 200 feet from the parking areas. Huckleberry is all walk-in as well, with the farthest site 50 feet from the parking. With Blooms Campground and Sempervirens Campground, Big Basin has another 102 developed campsites for RVs, but the park doesn’t feel at all crowded—the campgrounds are well spread out in the 16,000-acre park, and the huge redwoods give the Big Basin woods a certain eerie calm. Indeed, the local Native Americans feared the big trees—maybe atavistic memory from when these massive trees covered the continent and fierce, giant animals walked the land.
© Copyright Jane & Hans Huber with Bill Mai published by Menasha Ridge Press all rights reserved.
Duration: 102 drive-to sites for tents or RVs, 45 easy walk-to tent sites, 35 tent cabins, 4 or 5 campgrounds;
Best Time to Go: Open all year
This travel guide comes from:
The Best In Tent Camping: Northern California Guide Book
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Date of Trip: 8/25/2001
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good trails but too many people. the racoons are very humanized. kind of disappointing but very beautiful.
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