San Francisco North / Petaluma KOA RV Camping Resort - Petaluma, California

Yi J.

Have camped here twice. The first time in end of April 2024 which was a tent camping and this time a winter camping （in February） in one of the Cabin. The Cabin has one full bed and a bunker bed which has enough room for 4 adults and a three year old. Has an electric space heater, with its on, the night temperature is very warm. I wish they have 2 room Cabin like the other KOA but they are not. The service is always very good. Phone calls are picked up very quickly. There are also activities every time we visited. The overall experience camping in winter is better and the cabin is more comfortable than tent. Because tent camper are surrounded by RVs and it’s quite noise as RVs pass by. Spring time are more crowded and noisy than winter. Overall experience is pretty good. Will come back again.

Nico S.

We’ve stayed here several times before, and are always so happy with the experience. Very well maintained by super nice staff, which makes for a very welcoming experience. We’re from Vancouver BC so we’re far from home, but they make us feel like we’re not.

Kids activities are great, especially around Halloween. Close enough to San Francisco to make day trips easy. Also close to a lot of amazing wineries (Coppola and Cline are favourites).

Pool and spa facilities are awesome, as are the shower/washrooms.

No negatives to speak of!

M M.

This was our first trip to the San Francisco North / Petaluma KOA and it was wonderful! The campground itself is beautiful, with lots of gorgeous trees towering over many of the sites. We loved all of the amenities and our kids loved visiting the petting zoo, jumping pillow, and especially the very large pool. The pool is the nicest we've ever encountered at a campground and we really appreciated the large amount of loungers and pop up tents available for everyone to use. The campground is located in a rural area, but it was a great place to stay out of the city, but still close enough to visit the city. We were able to take the SMART train from Petaluma to Larkspur and then hop on the Golden Gate Ferry to get over to San Francisco. This was a really nice option which allowed us not to have to worry about parking in the city. We were also able to drive about 45 minutes north to visit Armstrong Woods, which is a stunning Redwood forest. The campground itself was super clean and very peaceful. We hope to stay again if in the area!

Troy G.

This is from a stay back in September. I booked a full hookup spot. They put me in a spot where they service your tanks. The guys serving it was shaking the camper hard and broke my black dump valves. They told me shrugged their shoulders and left. When I informed the front desk they told me that's an easy fix for me to do. I didn't break it and no management called me back. It was in fact not an easy fix. I had to take it for repairs which cost me $800 to fix what the KOA employees broke. The campground is nice but the employees don't care if they break your equipment.

Danielle J.

A return trip for us and the staff are amazing, and attentive. Facility and sites are clean and well maintained. Many different site options available (trailer/rv/cabins). Office/store on site for little things you may need. 2 laundry facilities available. Lots of family and kid friendly activities here!!

Ourtravels16-23

We have been travelling through a few US states and we found a park within distance to San Francisco. |On the advice of the lady at the RV park we had access to San Francisco by train and ferry. Downtown Petaluma was pleasant as were the access to other localities. |The one complaint we had was the state of the main amenities block, it took a good 10 minutes for hot water to come through, other than that a great park to stay in.

Adam M.

*EDIT* This is MY genuine and original review, I’m not sure why there is another account who clealry copied/pasted mine and changed just a few things in it but having it match exactly otherwise. Adding to my edit, the campground had replied thanking me for it and welcoming us back for future stays, however apparently updating my original review removed the campground’s original response and changed it to look like I just now reviewed them instead of two months ago? So I likely won’t update again from here in case they respond again

Fairly easy to locate, although the sign is hidden from view a bit and the entrance driveway is a bit narrow when two vehicles need to go opposite directions. Besides that though the staff were fantastic including an older semi-retired gentleman who spoke of his prior military service. They upgraded us to a pull-through site at no charge and let us check in an hour early. Grounds were clean and well maintained with nice facilities. A little pricey at near $100/night however there were plenty of amenities and again the staff and grounds exceeded my expectations.

I absolutely would recommend it and would return!

However, if you are driving a large class A or pulling a long travel trailer/fifth wheel, you will need to watch some of the turns/corners to get down the rows, especially when going to exit. It was no issue for me to do but I did need to circle around and find the row that lead straight to the exit gate as coming from any other direction I would not have been able to easily make the tight turn to exit the gate with my 37’ Class A rig towing our Jeep behind it despite all my experience in driving/maneuvering such large vehicles/equipment. That was about the only thing I’d be able to remotely complain about and even then it was a simple solution of knowing my rig and its abilities along with my own abilities to know that turn was next to impossible and I just needed to circle around and use a different row to access the exit gate.

I absolutely would return again though! Thanks for a great camping experience and being helpful upon our arrival!!!

Unrelated to the campground but relevant to nearby:

We visited San Francisco and although the campground felt very safe, use caution in the city! We had bicycles on the back of our jeep that were locked to it and when we came back from an Alcatraz Tour the locks/cables had been cut and one of our two expensive bikes had been stolen in under 3 hours. This is unrelated to the campground but wanted to add it for other visitors just in case they planned to see the city, keep any valuables locked at/in your RV and not in the city! We learned the hard way and lost a $1200 bike because I didn’t think I had time to spare to remove our bike rack and leave it with our RV.

Cynthia W.

The staff is wonderful! From the first step in the office door it was a first class camping experience. The grounds are maintained well with beautiful flowers and shrubbery. There are huge redwoods in the middle section where we were giving us plenty of shade.