Campgrounds in or near Ventura, CA

Reservable campgrounds in or near Ventura

Campground	Park / area	Sites
Santa Rosa Island Backcountry Beach Camping	Channel Islands National Park	33 sites
Santa Cruz Island Scorpion	Channel Islands National Park	31 sites
Santa Barbara Island	Channel Islands National Park	21 sites
San Miguel Island	Channel Islands National Park	19 sites
Anacapa Island	Channel Islands National Park	16 sites
Santa Rosa Island	Channel Islands National Park	16 sites
Santa Cruz Island Del Norte Backcountry	Channel Islands National Park	9 sites
Santa Cruz Island Prisoners Harbor	Channel Islands National Park	7 sites

Listings use the city recorded for each campground in the official Recreation Information Database (RIDB) — a campground listed here is in or near Ventura, which is why this page says "in or near."

How ItOpened watches Ventura

Pick a campground above and set a free watch on it. We scan the official Recreation.gov calendar around the clock; the second a site matching your dates and equipment opens, you get a text with a direct link to that exact site. You book it yourself, in your own account, at the normal price. We never book, hold, or resell anything — monitoring is all we do, and it's what your fee pays for.

Page data refreshed 2026-10-29. Campground facts come from the official directory listings; cancellation statistics come from our own scanning logs.