Westside Regional Park

Not a bad second choice to camp in the area. We aren’t usually planners and usually try to get a first come-​first serve campsite at Doran. When that fails we come over to Westside next. The camp hosts are warm and friendly and go out of their way to accommodate.
This is a paved area, no beach but has some bayside campsites. We lucked out, someone cancelled their reservations and we got the last available bay side site on a very windy cool bright day. It’s cold enough that we aren’t sitting outside but enjoying the view from the comfort of our motorhome!

Maybe not the secluded type of park some like but the view of the Bay is nice, the people who run it are outstanding. The camp host on our last trip was so helpful and friendly. The Rangers are also helpful, friendly and social, I wish all Rangers were so nice. We have camped here several times will be coming back many more times. There is plenty to do here, fishing, clamming, crabing or just watch the boats go by. You are walking distance from Spud Point Marina and the Bodaga head is just up the road. The people and atmosphere make this a great park.

For the record, we didn’t camp here, but did spend some time in and out checking it out as a potential future spot to camp. My family and I enjoy crabbing from the pier that’s a stone throw away from here, fishing from the jetty, and digging up clams in the bay. This is the closest spot to find a restroom when doing any of those activities.
This campground does kind of resemble an RV Park and has rows of camp sites laid out like a parking lot, this is true, but have you driven around the area in the Bay in Bodega? THEY ARE ALL LIKE THAT! If you want camping with trees, cliffs and beach, this isn’t the place, but neither is any other campground in a 5 miles radius.
This is however a great spot if you want to remain local and capitalize on all that the Bay has to offer. The camp host was extremely friendly when we pulled in asking to use the restrooms. The other camp sites were filled with all kinds of people and families and dog owners. There are some camp sites that are shaded with trees and others that have views of the bay.
They have a dump station on site that is open for use by non-​campers and charges a minimal fee to dump. They had large clean bathrooms. Overall a nice place.

This place is a total rule enforced place. If you are down for a place with retired old people calling you out on all the rules then you should come here. I went with my dog on a leash and she saw other dogs running loose and barked at them. She got called out on it but the white folks with the dog not on the leash didn’t get talked to. This place is meant for people with only rvs and not meant for actual camping. The sites are so small or any tents to be set up. I would find a different place to camp if you actually wanted a real camping experience. There is a high chance of you getting kicked out.
Stupid place with too many rules and regulations which they don’t tell you until you break it.

Disclaimer: Westside Regional Park is technically an RV parking lot which you are permitted to set up tents in. It is not a campground in the traditional sense.
We drove right past it in search of our campsite (you know, the kind with trees and stuff), got to the end of the road and thought we’d missed it somehow. We stopped back at the RV park to ask for directions. Pulling in to the park, we noticed the address matched the one we were looking for. Optimistically, we thought that you check in here and get a map to your site. Unfortunately, we had already arrived…
Pros:
— Flat ground for setting up tents (it is a parking lot, after all).
— 2 bathrooms which were totally clean (I didn’t bother with the showers, of which there was 1 female and 1 male shower for the entire parking lot– er, campsite).
— Safe, and definitely a good spot if you’re RV «camping» with kids. We saw kids biking around all day, having a blast.
— Excellent proximity to cool spots in Bodega Bay. We walked across the road for a nice hike, drove about a mile to Bodega head for epic views, and as the other reviewer (who hasn’t even been, so no idea why she’s reviewing) mentioned, very close to Spud’s amazing clam chowder restaurant.
— Limited/​nonexistent regulation on noise. Which could be good if your camp mates wish to stay up all night like the people across from us did (and bad if you didn’t want to be bothered until 2:45am, like me).
Cons:
— It is literally a PARKING LOT. There are 3 rows of «campsites» which are like long parking spaces (we fit 3 cars and a tent on the pavement), each with a grass/​dirt strip containing a picnic table and a fire pit. We stayed in site #21, which is in the treeless row, so there was just a road on either side of our site.
— NOISE. RV generators kicking on all night, dogs barking, fishermen arriving at the adjacent parking lot and utilizing the docks starting around 4am, cars driving on the main road. If you should go here, I would suggest jackhammer-​grade earplugs. There was occasional road noise all night, and constant, relentless road noise starting around 4am.
— No privacy from other campers, unless you brought an RV.
— Mites in the ground. We set up our tent, went for a hike, started prepping for dinner, and noticed that thousands of tiny brown mites had covered the tent, outside and in. The bugs were so small that they went through the tent’s mesh areas and we had to shake out and relocate the whole tent. I know there are bugs in the great outdoors, but really wasn’t expecting them since we weren’t exactly in the great outdoors.
All in all, we were camping with wonderful people who know how to make the best of everything. It could have been a lot worse. The fire pit was huge, and we had plenty of wood. It was not a terrible experience by any means, but I would not recommend this «campground» to anyone tent camping or seeking an escape from noise/​the general population. I have no plans to return here.

A friend of mine camps here every year and it is definitely a popular place to camp — she told us to book reservations at least 1 year in advance!
Also it’s about 1 mile away from Spud Point Crab Company — see my review.
I’ll update my review next year when we camp there.