Avalon’s Hermit Gulch Campground

Stayed here last weekend. Good location just up hill from Avalon. Severe water shortage on island however so there was threat of turning off hot water to showers in order to get visitors to use less. My daughter & I did get a couple of hot ones so we were lucky. Campground doesn’t have fire pits but you can use charcoal in the furnished barbecue grills. Picnic tables provided & some sites have some shade.

Very clean campground, warm showers (need quarters), flushing toilets, walking distance from the city (1 mile), and if u don’t want to walk the bus stops right in front of the campground office building.
If your bringing coolers, your own tents plus bags, I would suggest renting a golf cart. While u site see the scenic route stop by the campground, check-​in and drop your camping stuff off while touring the island in your golf cart. (This is what we did)
We rented a tent cabin for the weekend.
6 cots are available for each tent cabin.
It also comes with a lantern, fire starter and portable table stove.
There is a BBQ grill and a picnic table set up on front of each tent cabin. If you brought your own tent they’re BBQ grills available at the picnic area.
Renting the tent cabin was the greatest idea we had for our first time camping let alone our first time on Catalina island.
It was $ 50 a night to rent tent cabin + $ 21 per person on top of that.
Online you can pick which tent cabin you would like to rent but when you get there you just end up picking anyone you want that’s available at the time of checking in.
One more tip…
Bring a lantern for the restroom/​showers for night time. There are no lights inside.