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Los Padres/Arroyo Seco
User Reviews
Vito Skidmore
This place is absolutely stunning, and well within day-trip distance to pinnacles. The showers are basic, but warm and spacious. They have tent sites, small trailer sites, but no water or electric hookups. Bring your solar, your water, and your quarters and get ready for an awesome camping trip.
Tamara Kozerski
I was in site#2. Close enough but far enough to the bathrooms. Flush toilets & showers. Cleanest bathrooms I’ve ever experienced camping!! Beautiful well managed campground!! Ranger patrol regularly!!! I’ll definite back! Quiet hrs are respected or at least they were while I was there. I was there 1/17-1/19/25.
Jonny McMeows
Amazing spot for camping, both the modern and primitive sites! Currently open fires permitted on both, potable water at primitive sites only. The staff is absolutely incredible and come around with firewood and water. No reception within 20 min, McDonald's and Starbucks 30 min. The water is perfect for swimming and lots of space!
Padres Town
The very best memory of this campsite! My family had a great time! I love this place! Friendly staff and overall safe place to camp with the family. I would definitely go back again. Beautiful place!!!!!
Heather W
I loved this camping spot. Tucked away with no service and a nearly empty campground was perfect. The restrooms were the cleanest I’ve seen and the park staff was so friendly. They drove through often to check on everyone and say hi. Double sites are $60 and single sites are $30. No hookups but water spigots throughout. Coin op showers.
Jake Kemeny
This campground helped us out huge while we were passing through the area. After some complications with our original reservations, we had nowhere else to go and they treated us like family, gave us a great campsite and made our stay way better than expected. Highly recommend.
Derrick A
Its a nice place. Just know that there isn't any reception out there, and it can get a bit hot as well. You can't BBQ out there due to the fire season at the moment. They have restrooms on sight but no soap or hand sanitizer so bring your own. Be careful during wasp season they are everywhere out there and they will hover around you in swarms the entire time you are there. In my experience the month of August has the most wasps.
Tanford Nguyen
Clean campground. Allows dogs. Has bathroom facilities with flush toilets and separate coin operated showers. (6 quarters for the first 5 minutes, 1 quarter for each additional minute). The showers have adequate pressure and water temps are comfortably warm/hot. There are single, double, and group campsites as well as three walk-to campsites which isn't that far from where you park your car. There are water spigots close to each campsite. There is no cell reception so make sure you have what you need before heading in. The campground is approximately 45 minutes from the town of Greenfield. There's a pay phone but the coin slot to the phone that was close to where we were wasn't accepting coins. If you do need basic supplies like firewood and ice, the camp host has those items for sale. $7 for a bundle of wood and $5 for a bag of ice. The camp host was pleasant and went around daily to make sure everything was ok. Aside from a couple loud groups, the campgrounds were quiet at night. There are lots of bugs that will bite so make sure you bring some type of deterrent. Deet, citronella, etc..There were tons of biting flies when we were there, and personally, I think their bites are worse than mosquitoes. There are hiking and biking trails. Most folks will play in the Arroyo Seco River and hike/swim the gorge. There are plenty of swimming holes along the river but if you want to see the slot canyon and the small waterfall, you'll have to hike/swim several miles up river.
Aaron Loftis
Everything on the website said they were first come first serve on weekends. Drove 4 hours, turned away at the gate after arriving at noon being told "oh no we've been booked for weeks, it's all reservation based, super busy weekend". Said something about them not being able to update the website. Kind of a load, but whatever. Sure it's a nice campground and all, but we never found out.
Kaylesia F
Super nice and clean place. The day use area is great for kids. However you probably want to get there a bit on the early side. To hike the ranger said it was a half of a mile but it was probably around 4. We never actually made it to the cliff jumps because we had a 7 year old but another hicker said we were about 5 minutes away. The day use area has barbecues and picnic table right by the water. YOU NEED BUG SPRAY there are no bugs by the day use but if you plan to hike you need bug spray. Overall it was a great time but it was a bummer not being able to do the cliff jumps.