As an example about finding it hard to find camping in popular places during prime camping times, we recently we heading down the West Coast and wanted to stop in Pismo Beach in August. With a whole lot of phone calls we found one campground that had 1 site for 1 nights. That was perfect as we only planned to be there 2 nights. We then headed for Ventura and found the dry camping along the Pacific Ocean was FULL, FULL, FULL. Dang, our favorite stop. We drove to Emma Beach and lucked into a cancellation. 1 night only. Perfect, again but an absolute last resort as the Wal-Mart does not allow overnight camping. Not sure where we would have gone but it would have been in-land somewhere and a real bummer.
