Best Campgrounds Near Woodland Hills
20 hand-picked camping destinations curated for families visiting REI Woodland Hills. Each campground selected for quality, scenery diversity, and memorable experiences.
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Dogwood
Dogwood is one of Southern California's best-reviewed family campgrounds, offering shady pine and cedar forest camping near Lake Arrowhead and Lake Gregory with hiking, fishing, swimming, and biking for a classic mountain weekend.
Sycamore Campground
Sycamore Campground gives families a quick coastal escape with shaded creekside sites in a canyon and an easy underpass walk to a sandy Pacific beach, combining hiking, biking, and ocean play just a short drive from Woodland Hills.
Santa Cruz Scorpion
Santa Cruz Scorpion offers a unique boat-in Channel Islands adventure with excellent reviews, scenic coastal canyons, beaches, and kid-friendly hiking and snorkeling, giving families an island experience very different from drive-up campgrounds.
Coldbrook Campground
Coldbrook delivers classic San Gabriel Mountains scenery with a year-round creek winding through pine and chaparral, providing a cool, shaded day-trip option for families who want mountain camping and hiking without a long drive.
Ricardo Campground
Ricardo Campground showcases dramatic red-rock desert cliffs and easy trails in Red Rock Canyon State Park, adding a high-desert, stargazing-heavy option so families can experience scenery that feels completely different from the coast or pine forests.
Carpinteria State Beach Campground
Carpinteria State Beach is a highly rated, family-friendly beach town campground with sandy beaches, tidepools, a nearby seal rookery, and bikeable surroundings, offering a full-amenity oceanfront experience within easy reach of Woodland Hills.
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Thornhill Broome Campground
Thornhill Broome provides true on-the-sand camping with strong reviews, where families can park right by the surf for fishing, beach play, and coastal hikes only about half an hour from Woodland Hills.
Malibu Creek State Park Campground
Malibu Creek State Park is the closest major campground to REI Woodland Hills, featuring volcanic rock formations, a year-round creek, swimming holes, and great hiking and biking, making it an easy first camping trip despite a slightly lower rating.
Green Valley
Green Valley pairs shady pine and fir forest camping with nearby Green Valley Lake for trout fishing, swimming, and paddling, offering a cooler mountain-lake weekend option with consistently strong family reviews.
South Carlsbad State Beach Campground
South Carlsbad State Beach offers bluff-top ocean views with stair access to long sandy beaches and a bike-friendly coastal setting, making it a top-rated San Diego–area destination for longer family beach road trips.
Santa Rosa Island
Santa Rosa Island adds a more remote Channel Islands option with mountains, wide beaches, and rolling grasslands, ideal for adventurous families ready for boat travel and low-impact island camping with hiking, fishing, and wildlife viewing.
Wheeler Gorge
Wheeler Gorge is a very popular Ventura County campground where a creek, small swimming holes, and shady oak and sycamore trees create a cool canyon setting that works well for family day-trip or weekend getaways.
Pineknot
Pineknot sits in dense pine and fir forest just above Big Bear Lake, giving families quick access to lake activities, lift-served biking, and a large trail network from a highly rated mountain basecamp.
Belknap
Belknap offers the rare chance to camp among giant sequoias with a creek and the Tule River nearby, creating a spectacular high-elevation forest setting for families willing to drive farther for a standout weekend.
El Capitan State Beach Campground
El Capitan State Beach combines sandy beaches, tidepools, and a creek shaded by sycamores and oaks, giving families a scenic Santa Barbara–area coastal option with both ocean play and short hikes.
Canyon Campground
Canyon Campground tucks families into a shady coastal canyon across from the beach, tidepools, and sea caves, offering a smaller, more intimate Point Mugu option at an easy drive from Woodland Hills.
Heart Bar Campground
Heart Bar provides spacious pine forest sites near the Santa Ana River and within reach of Big Bear Lake, giving families a slightly quieter alternative to the busier Big Bear campgrounds while keeping great hiking and fishing close by.
Circle Canyon Campground
Circle Canyon offers a high-desert experience with oak-dotted grasslands and big views plus nearby creek crossings on trails, giving families a close-by, drier option that is great for hiking, biking, and stargazing.
Selby Campground
Selby Campground sits in the remote Carrizo Plain with sweeping views of surrounding mountains and rolling grasslands, offering families a quiet, dark-sky desert escape and excellent wildflower viewing in good years.
Mountain Oak
Mountain Oak is a modest but well-located campground directly across from Jackson Lake, giving families a closer mountain-lake option for canoeing, fishing, and cooling off without driving as far as the Big Bear area.
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