Rincon Parkway Campground — Hotel in San Buenaventura (Ventura)

Rincon Parkway is a RV only campground (parking space) located off the 101 Freeway in Ventura. You are literally in front of the ocean. There are no hookups of any kind and you must have everything you need in your rig. For example we have a class A motorhome with generator. We filled out water tank, brought our own propane for our fire pit and heater, and have our own bathrooms. There are port-a- potties, but use at your own risk. Lol. Reservations are online only and they are usually booked but you get lucky sometimes and get a reservation in the middle of the week. For a 3 night stay, we paid $131. Most sites are max length at 46 ft. Our motorhome was 36 ft and we ended up parking our SUV in the front of it. If your truck is long it may not fit due to the rocks protruding that make up the sea wall. We tried parking in the rear of our motorhome but rocks prevented us from backing up in our assigned spot.

If you are heading North on the 101 exit Seacliff and make a right. Proceed straight and you will begin to see the RVs parked along the sea wall. This route puts you in the direction of how RVs are facing. There is no room to make a u-turn with your RV and you will be impending traffic if you attempt to do so. Spaces are numbered and assigned at the time of your reservation. All are RVs are parallel parked with the passenger side facing the ocean. There is a narrow bike lane and space on the driver side of your RV. You use this space to stage your RV and towed vehicle. Put your hazards on and be careful. Cars are speeding in each direction and bikes are also passing by. You don't want to hit someone or have someone hit you. Use this temporary space to back your RV and vehicle into place. Spaces in the numbered range of 25-30 have good beach access for the most part. It is a lower sea wall to climb down. You have to climb down a man-made rock sea wall. Some spaces or areas are easier to climb down than others. You just have to find an easy path down the rocks. Not sure why others complain about this, the sea wall and rocks are to protect you and your rig from the ocean. What other place can you camp right by the ocean for under the $30-40 a night?

Shopping, retail, and food is only about 11 miles south and even closer for smaller hole in the wall places to eat. We forgot to pack diapers and Target was 20 minutes away.

You can even have GrubHub or DoorDash deliver here. Give specific instructions and your site number. We had pizza delivered to our site last time we were here. Many options to choose from.

There are squirrels and probably other not so sanitary critters (didn't see any mice but it was mentioned in another review) so be mindful of your trash and food. No infestation of any sort that we saw, but there will be if you leave your site a mess and desirable to them. Most RV owners should already know no when your rig is in storage or stationary in a new campsite, there is always a possibility of critters wanting to get close to you. I always leave bait traps in my storage areas and try to be proactive about this.

Be courteous and respect quiet hours when camping here and using your generators. Always clean up after yourselves and follow the rules. We don't want this camp area to be taken away. There are more traditional campgrounds with some hook ups such as Faria Beach campsite further North however they get booked quickly and have ocean views but you are limited in the camp area outside of your RV. Rincon Parkway is literally beachfront and close to the sand. Definitely worth it for a relaxing and cheap way to beach camp...

SCAM ALERT!!

Targeted by scumbag thieves ... and targeted by RV businesses operating out of the Ventura County RV Park.

The Ventura County Parks has hired a Hobson Beach on-site manager/host who is also doing RV solar business.

Up and down the parkway from Hobson to Faria and past Rincon, he drives his vinyl-covered truck: "Want RV Solar? Ask Me"

So I hired the RV solar business the Ventura County RV Parks department has chosen to run one of their parks, Hobson, and was duped.

Wires hanging; control unit just flopping around on the floor; advice to run my solar by, and I'm not joking, "dropping an extension through a hole in the floor and 'plug it up with a sock.'" But worst, no power.

The first (of many) times he came back, he realized the wiring on the roof was screwed-up.

Video after video sent that first day of everything blown. No power. Video after video. Yet he insisted 'the system works; the system works."

It has been a disaster and he is now refusing to return my $300 instillation fee.

The Ventura County Parks manager just called: she said running an RV solar scam business out of their county RV park, by the man they've chosen to run their RV park, has nothing to do with them. ( .... at the county RV parks dept.)

So a $1,000 generator stolen, then from a disaster of a scam business operating out of the Ventura County parks, duped out of $300.

Be Aware!

Crime is exponentially increasing.

Just from last year to this, you don't meet your neighbor and say hi ..y you meet your neighbor and they talk about crime, crime, crime.

Just had my Generac IQ2000 generator stolen. Behind my rig, 6:20p.m. as I made dinner, sun barely down Lights dimmed which meant we were no longer on generator; they snatched it, into a car and on the way they went.

There are homeless people wandering around all day, everyday, digging through garbage, begging for money and so forth.

What a change one year has made.

Deputies taking the report said it's just out of hand.

Crime is exponentially increasing.

Just from last year to this, you don't meet your neighbor and say hi ..y you meet your neighbor and they talk about crime, crime, crime.

Just had my Generac IQ2000 generator stolen. Behind my rig, 6:20p.m. as I made dinner, sun barely down Lights dimmed which meant we were no longer on generator; they snatched it, into a car and on the way they went.

There are homeless people wandering around all day, everyday, digging through garbage, begging for money and so forth.

What a change one year has made.

Deputies taking the report said it's just...

We stayed here for the first time this past weekend. Overall, it was a great experience, but now we know what we would look for if booking in the future. We were in site 9, which is one of the sites that has a wall between you and the beach below. The wall is about 4 feet high, so if you are at your trailer, you can see the ocean but not the waves crashing on shore. There is no beach whatsoever at this section of the campground. A few things to note. It is loud. At high tide, the waves crash against the wall and it gets the ground muddy closest to the wall. The waves weren't near our rv, but if the surf was higher, I could see it getting pretty far into your site. Cars are flying by on highway 1 which is about 10 feet from from were you park. On Saturday morning, a tractor started up and was going back and forth in the fields just above the campground. It was pretty loud. Trains come by as well, but although they are loud, they go by quickly. Another thing that was strange was a weird, piercing sound like a whistle that my wife and I would hear every now and then. It scared the crap out of our dog. Eventually, we realized it was some sort of new fangled "scare crow" to scare birds away from the field across from us. We only realized that after it went off one time and hundreds of birds took off from the field. We walked the entire campground and noticed that some sites have very small areas in front and then rocks that lead down to the beach below. Some sites have large rocks in front of the site, that sit about 4 feet high, others have no rocks at all. Finally, some sites have almost no access to the beach unless you want to risk twisting an ankle trying to navigate through the large rocks. Overall though, you are oceanside with a great view. We plan on going back soon after learning some of the tips that I outlined above and trying some of the...