The San Francisco North/Petaluma KOA Resort, which has been owned and operated by the Wood family for three generations, was recently named 2026 Campground of the Year by Kampgrounds of America – the well-loved local campsite’s second such award, according to the Argus-Courier.
For Caitlyn Wood and her brother Tyler, the timing of the award is especially sweet.
“We are the second KOA to have won it twice,” said Wood, who just last year became, along with her brother, the third generation to take the reins of the campground. “We’ve won President’s Awards, and then we won the Icon Award this year. It was a new award for KOA, and it was based on guest experience as well — but just kind of at a higher level.”
According to her grandmother, Judy Wood, it all began in the early 1970s, when Judy and William “Wayne” Wood went on a family trip and were thrilled to happen upon a kid-friendly campground. There had not been many along the way, and it got the couple thinking.
When they returned, they began researching campgrounds, all while scouting for property in Sonoma County, not knowing that a family legacy was about to begin.
