Redwood Springs Camp North Los Padres
2800 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Seldom used camp located east off the Cone Peak Rd near the Nacimiento Rd junction.
Rocky Creek Camp North Los Padres
1400 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Rocky Creek is a tributary of the Arroyo Seco and accessed from Greenfield.
True to its name, this is a very rocky creek that over the years has been subject to considerable gold mining activity. The placer gold is often coarse grained.
Rollins Camp South Los Padres
3143 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Barbara Ranger District • Trail Camp
Rollins Camp is located along the Don Victor - Loma Pelona Fire Rd just below the Dick Smith Wilderness boundary. Named after the dozer operator who helped build the road, Rollins has year round water, two tables, an old horse paddock, some tools and a well established fire ring. Rollins is most…
Roque Camp South Los Padres
3000 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
An old time Basque sheep herder named Roque had a sheep camp near the head of the canyon. His camp became a Forest Service Camp but is rarely used as the trail up the canyon has not been maintained since 1979. It was mostly used by hunters.
Round Rock Camp North Los Padres
1834 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Round Rock is a primitive campsite located up the Carmel River in the Ventana Wilderness. This camp is off the beaten path and should provide you plenty of the solitude that the Los Padres is famous for.
Saddle Skirt Camp South Los Padres
2950 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Saddle Skirt is an old and seldom visited camp along the Agua Blanca in the Sespe Wilderness. Some of the maps have the wrong location of the camp. There are a few icecan stoves at the camp and its set in a small potrero surrounded by oaks and sycamore trees.
Salisbury Potrero Camp South Los Padres
4,550 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
This camp is located off the Bull Ridge Trail on top of a small hill looking over the rustic cabin on Salisbury Potrero. To access the camp, start from the Sierra Madre Road 32S12.2. Then drop down the Bull Ridge Trail to Salisbubry…
Salt Creek Camp South Los Padres
4600 ft. • Kern County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
Salt Creek Camp is located minutes outside of Frazier Park along the Salt Creek OHV route.
San Antonio Camp North Los Padres
1850 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Seldom visited camp along San Antonio Creek in the far eastern Ventana Wilderness. The camp is along the San Antonio Creek Trail.
San Carpoford Camp North Los Padres
700 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located at the far southern portion of both Monterey County and the Silver Peak Wilderness. San Carpoforo Camp is along the Lottie Potrero Trail and upper Dutra Creek. Salmon Creek trailhead is the most common access point.
Santa Cruz Camp South Los Padres
2000 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Barbara Ranger District • Forest Station
Santa Cruz: In Spanish it means, "Holy Cross"
Located on the bank of Santa Cruz Creek the camp was constructed by the CCC in 1931. A Ranger Station was built at the same time under some beautiful oaks on the east end of the camp. The camp is located on the Santa Cruz Trail 27W09 that climbs…
Shady Camp South Los Padres
2440 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
This camp is located on the southeast side of Alder Creek under large Coast Live oak trees on a low stream terrace. The 1968 floods washed out the short side trail to the camp from the Capper Sespe River Trail 20W30 so one must walk down the bed of Alder Creek. A short distance down stream from the…
Sheep Camp South Los Padres
8400 ft. • Ventura County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located on Lockwood Creek North Fork Trail 22W02 which starts at the Three Falls Boy Scout Camp in Lockwood Valley. This is a very steep trail. It is better to hike in from Mount Abel via the Mount Pinos Trail 21W03 and North Fork Trails north end.This camp was used by sheep herders from the…
Sluice Box Camp South Los Padres
1658 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
Sluice Box is along the Horse Canyon Trail in the rarely visited northwest corner of the San Rafael Wilderness. There are a few old camps and newer hunter camps up this canyon and some confusion as to what is the real Sluice Box Camp. This is along the Condor Trail. This…
South Fork Camp North Los Padres
1800 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
This is a small trial camp located along the South Fork Trail (3E09) in the Ventana Wilderness in the Northern Los Padres National Forest.
South Fork Camp - Sisquoc South Los Padres
2,480 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
There is a small forest service cabin located at South Fork, This is the Southern Los Padres South Fork Campground. Another South Fork Exists in the Northern Los Padres
Spruce Creek Camp North Los Padres
950 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Spruce Creek Camp is along the Salmon Creek Trail, just upstream from the junction with the Spruce Creek Trail. The main camp is situated in a large flat shaded by lofty oaks and bay laurels, just before the trail crosses Spruce Creek. It contains ample…
Stagg Camp North Los Padres
1850 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
A trail camp along the Prewitt Loop Trail (5E06). Water can dry up here.
Strawberry Camp North Los Padres
2850 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located at the junction of Black Cone and South Fork Trails, Strawberry has reliable water in a mostly oak woodland environment. This camp is along the Condor Trail.
Sulphur Pot Camp South Los Padres
1750 ft. • San Luis Obispo County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
Sulphur Pot is the first designated campsite heading up the Lopez Canyon Trail in the Santa Lucia Wilderness. The camp has a toilet and fire rings. Lots of bear activity up here.
Sulphur Springs Camp North Los Padres
1350 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Camp along the Carmel River and Carmel River Trail. Year round water, camp is most frequently accessed via the Carmel River Trailhead at Los Padres Reservoir.
Sycamore Camp South Los Padres
2000 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
The original camp was located under a large sycamore tree behind the barn on the Ed Montgomery's homestead. This was the end of the wagon road up the river some 35 miles from Santa Maria. The sycamore tree died and the camp was on private property so it was moved up stream under some oak trees.
Sykes Camp North Los Padres
1050 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Sykes Camp is the busiest backcountry camp in the Los Padres National Forest. Famous for the hot spring that shares the same name, Sykes is approximately 9miles from the Big Sur - Pine Ridge Trailhead. Sykes is busy year round and is over capacity most weekends and holidays. There are a few designated…
Sykes Hot Springs North Los Padres
1050 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Sykes Camp is the busiest backcountry camp in the Los Padres National Forest. Famous for the hot spring that shares the same name, Sykes is approximately 9 miles from the Big Sur - Pine Ridge Trailhead. Sykes is busy year round and is over capacity most weekends and holidays. There are a few designated…
Tan Oak Camp North Los Padres
2600 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Tan Oak is located in the Ventana Wilderness along the Marble Peak Trail. This camp is very remote and for most people will involve a lenghthy multiple day backpacking trip. Tank Oak is along the Condor Trail.
Tassajara Creek Camp North Los Padres
1150 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Tassajara Creek Camp is located at the confluence of Tassajara and Willow Creeks in the Eastern Ventana Wilderness. The camp is accessed most frequently from the Arroyo Seco trailhead.
Terrace Creek Camp North Los Padres
1350 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Terrace Creek is the first camp located on the very popular (sometimes overrun) Pine Ridge Trail. The camp is amongst some spectacular redwoods at the junction of the Terrace Creek Trail and the Pine Ridge Trail. Most people hiking…
Thacher Camp South Los Padres
2528 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Thacher Camp is located along the Sespe River Trail about 9 miles downstream from Piedra Blanca Trailhead. It is located along the bend in the Sespe before you cross the creek, your last crossing before the spur trail to Willett Camp, which…
The Pines Camp South Los Padres
3420 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
The Forest Service established a tree nursery here. Both the 1932 Matilija fire and the 1948 Wheeler fire burned the trees planted by the Forest Service. The Thatcher School students have replanted the present pines. Other trees were lost in the 1985 Wheeler fire but the majority remain.
Located…
Three Mile Camp South Los Padres
5900 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Wilderness Trail
What exactly is this three miles from? That is the question.....
Three Mile Camp is set amongst lovely cedar trees along the Gene Marshall - Piedra Blanca Trail. This camp can be covered in snow during the winter. It's also a nice cool refuge during the summer months,…
Three Peaks Camp North Los Padres
2700 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
At the bottom of steep trail decline down from the Three Peaks Trail, Three Peaks Camp is settled amongst oak trees with mixed grassy potreros. The camp is accessed off South Coast Ridge Road just outside the Silver Peak Wilderness east of the Salmon Creek trailhead access.
Timber Top Camp North Los Padres
3000 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Timber Top Camp is located atop the geographic feature called Timber Top - imagine that? It is near the junction of the Boronda Trail and North Coast Ridge Rd.
Tin Can Cabin Camp South Los Padres
2380 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Tin Can Cabin camp is a small primitive trail camp located on the Aqua Blanca Trail in the Sespe Wilderness, the camp is at 2380 feet elevation.
Tin House Camp North Los Padres
2400 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Historical Camp
Historic camp deep in the hinderlands of the Ventana Wilderness. Tin House is located along the South Fork Launtz Creek off the Mt Manuel Trail. If you visit, please let us know what is there.
Tower Camp South Los Padres
4476 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
This camp and peak is a high point on the Nordhoff Ridge which is the range of mountains north of the town of Ojai. Charles Nordhoff, a featured writer for eastern papers, wrote in glowing terms of the area and the town when it was laid out in 1874. It was named after him in 1874 but in 1917 the town…
Trail Springs Camp North Los Padres
3800 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Trail Springs Camp is located at the junction of the Gamboa and Cone Peak Trail within the Ventana Wilderness. This is a small, sloped, and shaded camp nestled near the top of a steep canyon on the north side of Cone Peak. There is room for one, maybe…
Turkey Springs Camp North Los Padres
1350 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Turkey Springs Camp is within the far southern Silver Peak Wilderness along the Spruce Creek Trail. The camp is within a thick forest of mature oaks with scattered potreros (meadows) nearby that create a beautiful setting no matter which season you happen to visit. The most common trailhead is at…
Turner Creek Camp North Los Padres
2500 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Turner Creek Camp is located along Turner Creek down the Turner Creek Trail - imagine that? The camp is most commonly accessed from Bottcher's Gap trailhead as part of a weekend backpacking trip or exciting dayhike. Enjoy.......
Twin Forks Camp South Los Padres
3620 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Twin Forks is a small camp just upstream from the confluence of Piedra Blanca Creek and North Fork Piedra Blanca Creek, which heads up towards Pine Mtn Lodge Camp. While the name would indicate that both creeks might be identical, the main fork of the Piedra Blanca is clearly a larger creek with…
Upper Bear Camp South Los Padres
5253 feet ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Bear Camp is located on the Sisquoc Trail, this is a small trail camp shaded by the pine trees and cedars. The head waters of the Sisquoc are a reliable source of water and frequently accessed by bikers using the Buckhorn Road to travel across the forest. There is a huge…
Upper Bee Camp North Los Padres
3100 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Bee Camp is located along the Bee Camp Trail along the North Fork Big Creek in the Ventana Wilderness. The trail down to camp is hard to follow and rumor has it that Upper Bee Camp is not too spectacular. If you've visited it lately, please let us know what you think........
Upper Blue Canyon Camp South Los Padres
1878 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Barbara Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Blue Canyon Camp is located along the Blue Canyon Trail, about 1.3 miles from its junction with Romero Camuesa Road. Water can be found most of the year but if you are visiting the camp in the summer of early fall, plan on not finding any water.…
Upper Caliente Camp South Los Padres
2173 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Barbara Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Caliente Camp is a few miles up Caliente Canyon from the Big Caliente Trailhead. The camp is located on a flat west of Caliente Creek, just after a gentle climb through a meadow to a rock outcropping above the Oasis pool. At camp you will find a picnic table, as well as…
Upper Cruickshank Camp North Los Padres
1450 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
This small trail camp is located at the junction of the Buckeye and Cruikshank Trails in the Silver Peak Wilderness. The camp contains a picnic table and fire pit, with room for one or two tents. Dayhikers will often pass through camp as it is only a little…
Upper Higgins Camp North Los Padres
2300 ft. • Monterey County • Monterey Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Higgins is along the Lost Valley Trail in the Ventana Wilderness.
Upper Lopez Camp South Los Padres
1400 ft. • San Luis Obispo County • Santa Lucia Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Lopez Camp is within the Santa Lucia Wilderness along the Lopez Canyon Trail. There is reliable water within Lopez Canyon and quite a bit of animal activity. The camp has a table and is set amongst some beautiful large oak trees.
Upper Matilija Camp South Los Padres
3400 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Matilija is a popular camp located up the Matilija Canyon Trail. The camp has multiple sites, each with a raised BBQ grill and is just above the very reliable Matilija Creek. This site is frequented by both dayhikers and backpackers and is a regular stop amongst scouting…
Upper Rancho Nuevo Camp South Los Padres
4068 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Rancho Nuevo Camp is a small camp just above a narrows along the Rancho Nuevo Trail. Water in this part of the Dick Smith Wilderness is very seasonal. Don't expect to find good water during the Summer and early Fall months. There is not much at the camp other than an old fire grate and some…
Upper Reyes Camp South Los Padres
4624 ft. • Ventura County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Wilderness Trail
Upper Reyes Camp is located a few miles up from Reyes Creek Trailhead along the Gene Marshall-Piedra Blanca National Recreation Trail. There are two sites at Upper Reyes, one on each side of the creek. The western camp is located under a grove of beautiful…
Upper Santa Ynez Camp South Los Padres
2926 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Santa Barbara Ranger District • Trail Camp
Upper Santa Ynez Camp is set along the Forest Service access road that leads from Juncal up to Murietta Divide and down to Matilija. This road is called either Juncal Road or Murietta Road. The camp has…
