We started camping at Grayland Beach State Park in 2006 and have not missed a year since! We stay for at least a week at a time and never tire of the parks serene beauty and how quiet it is. The sites right next to beach are the best for wonderful sunsets and hearing the ocean's gentle roar. Unfortunately these sites only have water and electrical hook-ups - no sewer. The other sites away from the beach are full hook-ups plus mostly shaded. Every site has a campfire pit. Watch out for the mosquitos - bring your citronella candles! Sites are roomy and fairly private. The park rangers and staff are always kind plus they have campground hosts that you can purchase firewood from.Westport is about a 15 minute drive to the north and Tokeland is about the same to the south. There is beach access either through the walking trails at the campground or you can use the main road to drive out onto the beach. Make sure you have 4 wheel drive - we have seen MANY people get stuck!We recommend this park to everyone we know - absolutely love it!
We went trailer camping here three weeks ago. This is the ideal park to just relax, slow down and be with yourself and your family. So peaceful! Of course, January is not the busiest month for camping in Washington State but, still, the park was almost full and we can barely hear our neighbors. We had the weather in our favor and we could do the fire at night, took wonderful pictures and enjoy the surroundings. Grayland Beach is and enormous wide sandy beach (rare here in WA), where you can go clamming if you have the corresponding license. During the summer, this beach must be very popular since we saw several little modest hotels in the area, specially several ones advertised for surfers. The towns around do not really offer much to see or do; this a destination for laying down to rest, easy walking and being in the great presence of the sea! Highly recommended!
The wife and I spend are visit at Grayland State Park over the Halloween weekend. This park is very spacious and very beautiful. The bathrooms are clean but lack soap which I find very interesting in today's push for cleanliness. The walk to the beach was easy. I still prefer Oregon State Parks over Washington State Parks because Oregon gives you soap and doesn't charge you for hot water.
A beautiful state park. Our first time in a Yurt. Loved that is was spacious and tidy. The public washrooms and shower were well maintained. Simple but kept clean. Never saw a ranger, but it didn't feel like there was anything to worry about. Lots of families around enjoying the ocean area. We stayed in #61 which was close to the facilities and about 300 yards to the beach. This meant sleeping to the lull of ocean waves. So amazing.
Out of the way a bit and good probably for Surfers. It is a great camping beach but that was not what we do.
This is just a gorgeous campground. Clean, quiet and beautiful. This is our absolute favorite campground and we stay here every year. Never used the restrooms as our RV bathroom is better. The sites by the ocean are the best.
Overall, a very nice RV park and better beach. The rating depends very much on the site you stay at. We stayed in site 31 which was somewhat overgrown with trees and shrubs that very much limited the amount of sunlight that gets through resulting in a constantly damp and muddy site. The overgrown trees offered great privacy but made it difficult to position your rig in just right to get your slides out. It took a bit of maneuvering but we managed with one side sitting partially on the grass. There are other much more open sites and had we stayed in one of those then the rating would have been 5/5. The washrooms are older, dated, but relatively clean for a state park. The beach is the thing we will definitely come back for (at a different site). We had full power, water, and sewer. The sites closer to the water and beach do not have sewer.
Grayland has power/water hook ups for R/Vs at most if not all the sites. Most sites are relatively private and decent sized. Some sites are just a short easy walk to the beach. We really enjoy this park.
Able to drive on the beach, find shells, watch surf. No drift wood. Not heavily visited. The local restaurant has excellent food and service.
This was I think our fifth annual trip to Grayland Beach State Park, joining some close friends in Y63 and Y62. The yurts work out great - a little less to pack and put together (no tents), some extra heat at night (electric heater), and an easy way to stay out of the rain (we got a some in mid-August - how about that?). These yurts are close to a bathroom, close to the beach, and are at the end of a cul-de-sac which the kids endlessly ride their bikes and scooters around. The beach, as usual, was huge and mostly deserted, although after all these years I'm still getting used to the cars and trucks driving along the beach. We spent our few days right there, enjoying the beach with a lot of digging in the sand, some kite flying, reading in the beach chair, and one quick and very cold dip in the ocean. The only time we left the campground was for one night out - dinner at the Mexican restaurant in Westport. Overall, while the weather didn't always cooperate, it was a fun long weekend and a nice break from the regular business of life.