The motorhome backs to the yellow line at Bolsa Chica, right at the edge of Surf City's sand, a lifeguard tower and the break a short walk past the rear bumper, and the kids are in the water before anyone has leveled the rig. Nobody touches the ignition again until checkout. After dark the beach fire rings glow down the sand, and Pacific Coast Highway hums behind the back row, the one reminder that town is right there.
The state beach sets this lot aside for RVs alone. Only factory-built, self-contained rigs get a site: no tents, no conversions, and no pop-outs or awnings (California State Parks). A rented motorhome or a factory-built trailer meets that rule, and without an awning the shade comes from the rig's own shadow and whatever umbrella you carry across the line.
The lot has 50 sites with electric and water, 30 to 40 feet long, and takes motorhomes up to 40 feet as of September 2026. Front-row sites face the beach and back-row sites face the highway, which is the difference between waking to surf and waking to traffic. Book the site before the rig, so you know what length you're renting for.
Once you're parked, bikes do the moving. The paved beach trail runs 8.5 miles between Bolsa Chica and Huntington State Beach, with the pier and Main Street in the middle for surf shops, lunch, and the long walk out over the water.
Summer is when the lot gets hard to book, because it's the only beach in town where a rig can spend a summer night. The US Open of Surfing fills the sand from late July into early August, on top of the ordinary run of summer weekends, and the contest crowd and the families planning a beach week are after the same sites and the same rigs. Reservations go through Reserve California, and the Long Beach page on this lot walks through how that works.
Huntington Beach RV Campground, south of the pier
South of the pier, the city keeps its own RV campground on the beach, a row of sites under the palms with the sand just across the walkway. It's the in-town beach week: the pier close enough to walk to at sunrise, surfers working the break beside the pilings, and the bikes for everything else. The campground is open September through May and closes for the summer.
Every space has full hookups with 30 and 50 amp service. Front-row sites take rigs up to 30 feet and the second row up to 45, measured with bike racks and trailer tongues included (Huntington Beach RV Campground). That front-row number decides the rental, since a 30-foot motorhome with a rack on the back no longer fits the row closest to the sand. A couple who would take the front row over the extra bunks can size down to a smaller two-berth rig.
Fall's busy weekend is the Pacific Airshow in early October, when jets fly the stretch of sky off the pier and the show sells an RV camping package of its own on its tickets page. Farther down the coast, Crystal Cove State Park is covered on the Costa Mesa RV page.