This is a spectacular location for beach camping. Three campground areas high up on the dune with the beach stretching off to infinity in both directions below the dune. All the campsites are more or less walking distance from the beach, but the furthest ones would be quite a long walk so it’s probably better to drive down to the beach for convenience. We go here every year with my kid’s school dad‘s club annual camping trip. As it is beach camping, the experience depends a lot on weather — if the weather cooperates, it can be spectacular, otherwise, if foggy or drizzly conditions, then camping on the dune gets messy and sand stuck all over the kids and the gear, and besides that not much to do if the weather doesn’t cooperate. It’s also quite a long drive from San Francisco — if you hit traffic, it can take 3 hours on Friday afternoon, going over the Santa Cruz mountains is particularly a bottleneck.