Alder Creek Camp - Ventura South Los Padres
2520 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Access the Alder Creek Camp from Alder Creek Trail (20W11) from the trailhead at Dough Flat trailhead. Dough Flat is 17 miles north of Fillmore on unimproved Forest Road 6N16 (Oak Flat/Cow Spring Road). Vehicle access to Dough Flat Road only.
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Ant Camp South Los Padres
2700 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Ant camp is a small trail camp located on the trail junction of Bucksnort Trail and the Aqua Blanca Trail in the Sespe Wilderness, the camp is at 2700 feet elevation. The camp is well named because the site is alive with ants. It is…
Bear Creek Camp South Los Padres
2820 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Bear Creek Camp is located on the Sespe River Trail about 4 miles downstream from the Piedra Blanca Trailhead. Once an old car camp, the camp now sits near the creek on a sandy beach area shaded by sycamores and cottonwoods and interspersed with interesting red…
Beartrap Camp South Los Padres
5000 ft. • Ventura County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
Beartrap camp is located in the shade of large incense cedars along Gene Marshall-Piedra Blanca National Recreation Trail, about 5 miles from the trailhead at Reyes Creek Campground. According to local lore, the camp got its name because the Reyes family…
Buck Creek Camp South Los Padres
4200 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Buck Creek Camp is located on the Buck Creek Trail (18W01) in the Sespe Wilderness
Cedar Creek Camp South Los Padres
5,080 ft. • Ventura County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located on a bench between the South Fork Cedar Creek and an unnamed drainage, Cedar Creek is a fantastic camp under a lush forest of incense cedar and ponderosa pines.
There are three fire-rings within the camp and enough room to play some frisbee or spread out should you have a larger group.
Being…
Coltrell Flat South Los Padres
2312 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Coltrell Flat is a small camp along the Sespe River Trail about 10.5 miles downstream from Piedra Blanca Trailhead. Located at the old homestead site of George Cotriell, this camp sits in a large group of Live Oak trees at the edge of an impressive meadow about…
Cove Camp South Los Padres
1750 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located on the south side of Agua Blanca Creek on a stream terrace. A bend in the creek forms a shallow cove. Large oak trees shade the camp. It is located about 1 1/2 miles down stream from the Big Narrows. It is a good place to camp and day hike up to explore and swim the Big Narrows pools. It…
Cow Spring Camp South Los Padres
3700 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located at the end of the Squaw Flat abandoned road, the camp was the beginning of the Alder Creek Trail (20W11) that descended to Alder Creek. North of the camp, along the trail are large exposures of deep red Sespe sandstone. There is a small seasonal waterfall at the head of Stone Corral Creek.…
Fishbowls Camp South Los Padres
5200 ft. • Ventura County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
Fishbowls Camp is located near the headwaters of Piru Creek upon Pine Mountain within the Sespe Wilderness. Named after the series of bowl shaped swimming holes that are upstream from camp, Fishbowls has year round water and is nestled amongst pine trees and sandstone outcrops. The camp is along…
Haddock Camp South Los Padres
6080 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Haddock Camp, technically pronounced 'hay-dock' but commonly called 'had-dik', is located along the upper Piedra Blanca drainage along Pine Mountain in the Sespe Wilderness. The camp is set amidst towering pine trees in a grassy small flat surrounded by white rock crags. Haddock is most commonly…
Hartman Camp South Los Padres
2489 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Hartman Camp is located along the Sespe River Trail about 9.5 miles downstream from Piedra Blanca Trailhead. This site has long been in use, first as a USFS Guard Station in the 1920s and later as a car campground in the 60s and 70s. Now what remains is a pleasant…
Jackson Hole Camp South Los Padres
2500 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located near Santa Paula off the Highway 150 on the Last Chance Trail (21W09) in the Sespe Wilderness. The hole is a hunting and fishing camp which was named for a former mountaineer who often used the site. The falls are up the canyon above the camp. Further up the canyon is…
Lady Bug Camp South Los Padres Los Padres
4800 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Ladybug Camp is a small trail camp located on the Red Reef Trail in the Sespe Wilderness. No surprise here, but many ladybugs overwinter in and around the area. The camp is located near the headwaters of Timber Creek at the bottom of a canyon and shaded by towering bigcone Douglas-firs,…
Last Chance Camp - Sespe South Los Padres
4300 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Not to be confused with the Last Chance Camp in the Ventana Wilderness, this seldom visited site was abandoned by the Forest Service in the early 1970's and, according to Gagnon, was once slated for removal. Contrary to many of the former Los Padres recreation maps and various Quads, the camp actually…
Little Mutau Camp South Los Padres
5200 ft. • Ventura County • Mt. Pinos Ranger District • Trail Camp
A small primative trail camp located on the Little Mutau Trail (20W10) in the Sespe Wilderness
Log Cabin Camp South Los Padres
1510 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Located on the Agua Blanca Trail (19W10) just past the trail junction of Pothole Trail (18W04) and…
Oak Flat Camp South Los Padres
2600 ft. • Santa Barbara County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Oak Flat Camp is located on a large bend in the Sespe River with numerous sites dispersed throughout the area. The main camp is situated under a few large live oak trees and contains two picnic tables and a fire ring. At the west end of the flat where the river comes out of a small canyon, is a long,…
Piedra Blanca Camp South Los Padres
3500 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
The Piedra Blanca Camp is located on the Gene Marshall-Piedra Blanca Trail in the Sespe Wilderness about 2.1 miles from the Piedra Blanca trail head. This is a small trail camp with a few fire rings, a great place for a quick overnight trip. The Piedra Blanca Creek flows year round.
Pine Mountain Lodge Camp South Los Padres
6,000 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Trail Camp
Pine Mountain Lodge (PML) is located in the Sespe Wilderness along the Piedra Blanca - Gene Marshall National Recreation Trail. It is most commonly accessed from the Sespe River side using the Piedra Blanca Trailhead. That being said, many people pass through PML doing a shuttle trip from Reyes…
Potrero John Camp South Los Padres
4400 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Wilderness Trail
The camp and creek names were originally spelled "Jon" which was later anglicized to "'John". Named for Jon Power who was a man who lived in the area in the early 1900's. He used the area to pasture stock.The camp is a little over 1 1/2 miles by trail up the canyon from Highway 33 on the
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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.
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 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…
Willet Camp South Los Padres
2520 ft. • Ventura County • Ojai Ranger District • Wilderness Trail
Willett Camp is located along the Sespe River Trail about 9 miles downstream from Piedra Blanca Trailhead, which is by far the most common access point for visitors. There are a variety of camps that are situated around the ruins of an old family settlement that…
