Los Padres/Campo Alto

Mike W

Very nice spacious camp, lot's of room between spaces but unfortunately I didn't see a lot of level ground for Large and tents. Spaces have a table and fire ring and share a large bear box with adjacent space. Well treed with lots of shade, you you are on top of a mountain so a lot of the trees have the tops that have been hit by lightning keep that in mind if you're there during thunderstorm activity. Unfortunately while I was there it was cloudy with snow on the ground already by the second week of October it is at a high elevation of over 8,000 ft probably closer to 9,000 so keep that in mind that it can get very cold even if it's a warm day night times can be cold and windy. Campground has two vault toilets one at the very end and one about in the middle of the camp. Nightly camping fee is now $30 15 with the federal pass. Road to access the camp is paved pretty good condition pavement ends at the campground but there should be no trouble getting any type of vehicle up into the camp even with trailers or longer motorhomes. Also keep in mind for your safety that this is bear territory there are bears they are seen in the camp use the bear boxes and while I was there there had been a recent mountain lion sighting in the camp,so keep your kids and dogs close by or under watch

Richard Quintana

Beautiful campground with amazing views of the night sky! Campsites didn’t have any really flat areas, but we figured it out. My only reason for 4 stars is they hadn’t cleaned the bathrooms (glorified outhouses) before we got there nor did they while we were there.

Sony S

Wow that was a gem to find for me personally. Beautiful forest. There are a lot of other campgrounds nearby as well that you can visit. The only thing I really did not like is that you have to book it for 2 days minimum, always! Even when booking a group camp for 50-70 people. Which is kind of weird. Also it's weird as 1 camping spot has a limit of 6 people and 1 car, but group camp is allowed up to 10 cars and 70 people, however it is not that much bigger. It is only like 3 times bigger and has more tables. And 2 group camps are right next to each other.

Taylor Harrison

Cool campground with some great views. When we went 7/7-7/10 many of the sites were closed due to hazardous trees (which is why the closures seem a little random). When we saw the camp hosts a couple days in they mentioned they had just been notified the Friday of 4th of July weekend that the sites would have to be closed. Sites are very big a spread out. Our last night we were the only people in our part of the campground. There’s only two bathrooms and they are spread far from each other but pretty clean. No water, no bear boxes, so be prepared for that—though we didn’t see any bears and the general store is about a 15 minute drive away. For whatever reason google maps makes it seem like it will take 50 minutes to get there, but it’s much shorter. Some of the road is pretty rough as you get deeper into the campground. Best views are if you walk through the group sites—really spectacular sunset watching there. Weather really varied for us. First night was very cold and quite windy and I wish I had thought ahead to bring a heavier jacket. Wind calmed the next day and the rest of our time there it wasn’t really present in the evening. Day time temps were nice—sweatshirts in the morning, but then easily could be in tanks and shorts during the day—never too warm. We stayed at site 16.

Aileen Torres

Spacious campground with nice scenery. There aren’t really any hikes nearby so you kind of just have to hang at your campsite. Not rating it any higher because there was a noose hanging from one of the trees at our campsite (#3) which was super creepy. We told the park ranger about it and he said he “didn’t think it was dangerous” but let us change campsites because we were uncomfortable to one that was supposedly closed due to “hazardous trees”. There was also this weird doll wrapped in rope by the noose so not sure what kind of creepy things are happening up here.