Point Your RV to the Oregon Coast’s Scenic Beverly Beach
RVers driving the Oregon Coast Highway can find dozens of highly-rated parks on RV LIFE Campgrounds. The popular Beverly Beach State Park on the Central Coast near Newport is one of them. Beverly Beach State Park is a picture-perfect place for an Oregon Coast camping trip. Enjoy the long sandy beach and large wooded campground with awesome campsites.
Beverly Beach camping
Beverly Beach campground is hidden among the trees along Spencer Creek. All sites are just a short walk from the beach. The campground includes 53 full hookup sites (27 with cable TV). You’ll also find 78 sites with electricity and water. Oh, and 128 tent sites with water available nearby. Those without tents and RVs can also find yurts to stay in.
The campground at Beverly Beach. Photo by author (Nikki Cleveland)
A short walkway leads from the campground under the highway bridge out towards the beach. The long expanse of beach offers breathtaking views of the Yaquina Head Lighthouse and the headlands of Otter Rock. The windy beach makes a perfect destination for kite flying when wind cooperates.
Attractions near Beverly Beach
Beverly Beach is just a short drive from several more beaches and attractions. Check out these nearby places on your Oregon Coast camping trip.
- Depoe Bay: Just 15 minutes north of Beverly Beach is Depoe Bay, the Whale Watching Capital of Oregon. Take a whale-watching cruise, browse the local gift shops, or dine overlooking the world’s smallest navigable harbor. Read more about the best places to go whale watching in Oregon here.
- Agate Beach State Recreation Site: Agate Beach is just 10 minutes south of Beverly Beach via Highway 101. The park has a large parking lot with room for trailer parking as well as beach access.
- Nye Beach: Only 5 minutes south of Agate Beach is the historic Nye Beach district in Newport. This quaint area has beach access and lots of small shops, cafes, and restaurants.
- Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site: Yaquina Bay State Recreation Site is only five minutes south of Nye Beach on the north side of the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Hike or bike the park’s scenic trails, walk along the beach, and visit the park’s historic lighthouse.
- The Siuslaw National Forest has RV-friendly campgrounds and great hiking trails through the lush coastal woods. Learn more about camping in the Siuslaw National Forest in this article.
- Lincoln City: Great shopping, art galleries, restaurants and more are less than an hour north of Beverly Beach in the communities leading up to Lincoln City. Browse the local gift shops for a souvenir. Visit the Lincoln City Outlets for great discounts on name-brand items.
Sunset from Beverly Beach. What a perfect place for an Oregon Coast camping trip. Photo by Motorhome Madness, RV LIFE Campgrounds
Planning your Oregon Coast camping trip
Beverly Beach is very popular. Of course, reservations are required. RVers rave about the park on RV LIFE Campgrounds as seen with its excellent 8.2 average rating. Keep in mind Oregon is now imposing an extra fee for out-of-state travelers at state park campgrounds.
The Oregon Coast is lined with over a dozen more state parks with RV-friendly campgrounds. Start planning your trip with RV LIFE Trip Wizard and the RV LIFE App With RV-Safe GPS Directions. You can also learn more about Oregon Coast camping in this Do It Yourself RV article.
Erf. Beverly Beach might be for some–and it is in a great location–but here is how I (a tent camper w no kids, to put it in context) described it to people after camping there: “It’s like a Walmart Parking Lot crossed with an Elementary School Playground at Recess.” People are PACKED into tiny, close spots that are pretty much right on the road.
So if you like that kind of campground because you have kids with bikes and don’t mind other big families or groups of bros playing cornhole ’til 11 PM or so, it’s a great place. The location near the beach (just walk under the highway) is nice. And that part of the coast is nice. But I wish I had read this comment before I went. I’d’ve avoided it and camped somewhere smaller and quieter.
It’s a shame there doesn’t appear to be a method to easily save interesting article on this site for future reference. Or, am I somehow missing that feature.?
I have always loved Beverly Beach during off-season when the child count was small. But it isn’t always kids who can ruin a camping trip. We were camped next to the walkway to the restrooms and the folks camped next to us decided that it was just fine to cut through our site to get to the restrooms faster, even when we politely asked them not to. Add to that the weekend kids who also thought it was OK to ride their bikes through our site , play chase, etc. as if we weren’t there. Unless a Ranger was stationed right in our camp and directing people around to the sidewalk, the camps near restrooms sucked. Because of this I am less inclined to go back there. I thought kids often didn’t have good training regarding camp etiquette but to have adults back talk to us as they cut through our camp as if THEY owned the park was too much. I will carefully pick my parks based on fences next to walkways and off season reservations only. I brought my kids up to respect camp etiquette but I guess this is another one of those things drifting into the past.