Camping at Dillon Beach

Last week my family and I camped at Dillon Beach in California, so I had an idea to write a review about how my experience was there. The campground we stayed at is called Lawson's Landing and we stayed at site N8. This part of the campground is a large grassy field with sites sectioned off with lines on the ground. The sites here tend to be fairly large so it is great if you are camping with a lot of people. I would suggest that you tent camp in this section. You are allowed to trailer camp here, which is what we did, but it was a bit difficult to place the camper. Also, there are one or two fire circles just on the ground, I only saw about five sites where they had a fire pit. These campsites are surrounded by dunes, which you have to go through to get to the ocean, just about a 50 yard walk. The beach is windy! But if you want to go play in the ocean, it's fun because there are four foot waves.
  Another section of the campground is closer to the ocean. I would suggest that you would only camp here with a trailer because you are parked on gravel. However awful that sounds, you are only five feet from the ocean. This is also where you load/unload boats and there is a pier so you can fish and crab. The water is calmer here so you could take your dogs to the water here or go kayaking.
   There are also some houses farther up the beach that is closer to town that families can rent out. I don't know how much it costs but they seemed like decent size homes so you could split the cost with another family and go together.
   On the ocean front, the same beach that you walk to from the first section of the campground, is a  day use area. This is not affiliated with the campsite so you do have to pay to park here; however, there are no dunes to cross to get to the beach so this would be good if you brought grandma and grandpa or little kids camping.
   Overall, I enjoyed my time at Dillon Beach. This is the perfect place if you want to go crabbing (we did and the crabs were delicious) but not so great if you just want to hang out by the beach.