Moon California Camping: The Complete Guide to More Than 1,400 Tent and RV Campgrounds (Moon Outdoors) Paperback – May 16, 2017

We're planning a trip this summer, and this book has really helped us be better informed as to what places to camp. It tells which take reservations and which don't, what kinds of bathroom facilities are present, the elevation (important for getting an idea of temperature ranges), and so on. Also, it's well organized by region and the maps make it easy to figure out which campsites are in the area where you want to camp.Highly recommended if you're thinking about camping in California.

I've just completed a 30-day camping road trip with my son. We camped and hiked around northern CA using this book and the companion hiking CA book by Moon. They were invaluable. What I appreciate about this book is that it consolidates all of the various camping options into one place. Combine that with the face that the hiking book uses that same map divisions which makes it easy to plan hikes based on where we were camping. Great job!

This is an amazing work. You can tell a lot of effort went into it, and it has been extremely helpful for our camping trips. However, there seems to be some errors, and I’m guessing by some of the reviews the author has not been to all the campsites (or talked with people who have). I’m guessing a lot of internet research went into this, and I don’t doubt that the author has personally seen a lot of these campsites. It’s kinda unreasonable to expect that to happen, but some of the reviews were a little off. Overall, great work and very helpful.

This is an outstanding reference for camping in California. I bought an old 1987 version of this at a thrift shop and was instantly impressed. I hoped that it had been updated, was pleased it had and immediately bought it. As far as I'm concerned, this is THE go-to book for campgrounds in California. Concise, readable and succinct. It's hard to imagine any camper in California not appreciating what this book offers.

This book is full of useful info about camp spots that don't show up on internet searches unless you know what the spot is called which is silly!! I have found enough to make a new list of spots to check out in different ranges from my hometown.This book will keep me busy for decades with amazingly beautiful camp spots.

I was actually excited when my book arrived, but so disappointed to find it a actually contained less pages than my faithful and very well used 2007-2008 edition. Still no mention of our favorite family camp ground. Looked for explanation of additions or changes in newer edition, and found none. If you do not own a copy of Moon's Ca. camping, this is a great book to have, but if you are looking to update what you have, save your money.

I am planning a trip up the California coast and sure, I could use the internet to research camping areas, but this books lays out who takes tents and who doesn't. This has saved me a lot of time weeding out useless sites. I appreciate the honesty about sites that may have issues with thieves or questionable activities. Great book with great descriptions.

We just returned early from what would have been a camping weekend because the book only has scenic rating but it does not tell you things like how old the facilities are, when the bathrooms were last remodeled, level of cleanliness and up keep, nor that the RV site has many permanent residents and that many look like they moved in in the 1950’s! There hasn’t been a coat of paint since. The scenic rating for this site was 7. The view to the lake afar and the mountains was very nice. Not enough to spend the night. We will be returning this book and using the internet from now on.