Coastal Dunes RV Park — Hotel in Grover Beach

It's okay, I guess. I wouldn't recommend staying here for more than a couple nights.

To start off with, the campground is located between CA SR-1 highway and railroad tracks, so there is a lot of highway noise. And when a train passes by (approx. every hour, except in the middle of the night, thank goodness), the noise is almost deafening, and the ground shakes. Well at least they aren't blowing their horns here.

Most campsites are either sand or dirt, with a paved access road. When it rains, the sand and dirt turn into an unpleasant mix of mud and puddles. (Yeah, there's no drainage here, so bring your boots.) Most of the sites are quite small, so it's definitely not a place for RVs much larger than 35 feet. And most sites aren't wide enough to deploy both a 3ft slideout on one side and an awning on the other side. While I was here, I had a terrible ant infestation in my RV, so I would highly recommend spraying your wheels, landing jacks, and hookups with a bug barrier, and place plenty of ant bait around as well.

While I was here, I had a wheel on my bike stolen, so don't leave your stuff unlocked & unattended. In the evening & late night, there are occasionally shady groups of people (who don't even belong in the campground) traversing here. I saw a group jump the fence from the highway into the campground, walk across somebody's campsite, and then jump the other fence to cross the railroad tracks. Another night I saw another group walk back & forth along the access road past my campsite about 3 or 4 times (probably scouting out something easy to steal from someone's campsite). And they were usually wearing hooded sweaters to cover their identity. There were also some nights when I saw a police car driving through the campground.

All that being said, it's not absolutely terrible. The neighboring campers are quite friendly, there's a pool and a laundromat, and you get full hookups. (No WiFi though.) Like I said, it's alright if you are staying here only a...

Not much yard space . Am track runs behind 50 feet away .some loud . pacific blvd. In front its noisier than the train... For 800 month not worth it. Rv parks are no better tight spots. permanent tenets drive fast thru the park. kids run out from behind / between the campers , parents Do not watch them , because kids are ten campers from there own...and neither are the park rangers they are all buddy buddy here.. i do not socialize with anyone here. mind my business .i smell pot everyday from a few campers away... constantly stinks..i didn't know this state or county park would condone smoking marijuana being smoke outside there campers and many children running around inhaling the pot .i know i must be getting it in my system because it is overwhelmingly strong so the children have to b inhaling it more because they are hanging around in and out of these lots. they aRE All friends ..park rangers never warn the tenets to slow it down. they told me that they see them going at least 20 miles an hrs when its posted 10.. WHAT ARE THEY WAITING FOR A CHILD TO BE KILLED. THEN ENFORCING IT..I TOLD THE MANAGER HERE IT WAS A ACCIDENT JUST BUILDING UP , IT WILL HAPPEN ...I JUST PRAY IT WON'T B A DEATH .......All in all wish i never come back to California ...sucks your money out out of u....And no i didnt say drug infested. But it was bad. AND THEY DO NOT STOP SPEEDERS I REPORTED A MAN AN THE LADY WORKING THERE LAUGHED AND SAID YEAH HE DOES DRIVE TOO FAST. AND HE NEVER...

First timers here at this Campground. I read the reviews(complaints) and they are little over exaggerated about the train (you hear the noise for like 5 secs while it passes. It's a county ran park so their are rangers who are diligently driving through the park and enforcing Campground rules(but not over bearing ). I read that some folks had their stuff stolen, so we made sure to lock up our bikes at night and anything valuable was with us inside our rig. Location is good, next to a restaurant and walking distance to beach. Being that it's a county park, not much money is invested in these properties (too bad, LOTS of potential) our site didn't have a fire pit or picnic table. Tables were scattered in other sites, not all sites had them. I will say, I've stayed in other campgrounds where there are permanent residents and the others do a better job enforcing residents to have a clean and tidy campsite. I imagine it's hard living out of a trailer , but just simply pulling your weeds and making sure your rig is clean would be my only recommendation. It just helps make the park have a better...