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Camping Southern California Guide Book

by Richard McMahon (Falcon Publishing)
Camping Southern California

282pp/maps/photos/charts
ISBN: 1560447117

This comprehensive guidebook includes detailed descriptions of more than 500 public campgrounds--places you can drive to yet still enjoy the great outdoors without having to park fender-to-fender. The listings include campsites managed by national, state, and county parks; the Forest Service; the BLM, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers--from Monterey, San Benito, Fresno, and Inyo Counties to the Mexican border. Thorough maps will help simplify your search for the perfect campground. Within each listing you'll find vital information on location, hookups, fees, reservations, available facilities, and recreational activities. This book also includes informative overviews of the weather, geography, and attractions of specific destinations.

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... Preview: Anza Borrego easily ranks with the finest desert parks in the nation. Only its status as a state park keeps it from achieving the popularity of Death Valley and Joshua Tree National Parks. Even so, it ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Borrego Springs, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: This area includes the immediate eastern vicinity of Kings Canyon National Park. The park offers wonderful vistas, giant sequoia groves, and scenic trails. However, it does not have a monopoly on suc ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Big Pine, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Some of the most majestic scenery in all of California is found in the high country that separates Owens Valley to the east and the fertile San Joaquin Valley to the west. The Sierra Nevada, the highe ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Bishop, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Cleveland National Forest occupies most of the central third of San Diego County. Its 567,000 acres stretch from the northern county line to within a few miles of the Mexican border. The forest vegeta ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Julian, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: The Colorado River forms the border between southeastern California and Arizona. In recent years, this sparsely populated region has become a popular winter tourist destination, as well as a retiremen ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Blythe, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Named by Forty-niners who struggled across this virtually waterless furnace on the way to seek their fortunes in the California gold rush, Death Valley is both the hottest spot in North America and th ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Furnace Creek, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Although the Central Valley is one of the most productive agricultural regions in the nation, visitors will find much to see besides rich farmland and bountiful vineyards. Tucked among the immense fru ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Fresno, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Joshua Tree, one of the nation’s newest national parks, encompasses an area of more than 558,000 acres of desert, rugged mountains, winding arroyos, and strangely shaped granite monoliths. Two major N ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Twentynine Palms, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: At Bakersfield, steadily pumping oil wells begin to share the landscape—and often the same fields—with agricultural crops and livestock. The city is home to the Kern County Museum, which includes 50 h ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Bakersfield, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks provide miles of roads and trails through a magnificent wilderness, affording access to the largest trees on earth and the deepest canyon in the United States. ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Hume, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Mount Whitney, the highest peak in the contiguous United States, looms over the border between the national park and Inyo National Forest. Its campgrounds and trails provide access to the summit, the ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Lone Pine, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Desert landscapes, volcanic cinder cones, pinyon-juniper woodlands, abandoned mines, Native American rock art, and California’s second highest sand dunes provide almost limitless opportunities for exp ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Baker , CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Some of the most magnificent scenery in Southern California unfolds along the coastline of Monterey County. From Carmel south to Big Sur, Gorda, and beyond, the Pacific Coast Highway snakes its way fr ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Monterey, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: As in Northwest L.A. County, the Angeles National Forest dominates the landscape, along with the San Gabriel Mountains. The Angeles Crest Scenic Byway (California 2), which runs 66 miles from LaCanada ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Lancaster, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Most of the campgrounds described in this section of the book are in the Angeles National Forest, 1,000 square miles of wilderness running almost the entire width of northern Los Angeles County. As th ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Castaic, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: Once the domain of a single powerful ranching family, then a kingdom of orange groves, Orange County has undergone a dramatic transformation since the 1960s. Still the dominion of the rich and the pow ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
San Juan Capistrano, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: In 1875, a small 12-room adobe inn was constructed in the town of Riverside. Over the years, the inn grew with the town, adding rooms, alcoves, stained-glass windows, and antiques. Today a major touri ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Riverside, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: The Salton Sea, sometimes referred to as California’s Dead Sea, is the state’s largest lake, covering about 360 square miles. It was created accidentally in 1905 when diversion controls on the Colorad ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
Calipatria, CA - Campgrounds
... Preview: The San Bernardino Mountains span the county from east to west, dividing it roughly in half. The southern part of the county is fertile and populated, while the north is sparsely inhabited desert. In ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
San Bernardino, CA - Campgrounds (About Top Trails)
... Preview: On Presidio Hill in the city of San Diego stands the Serra Museum. A short distance down the hill, Old Town provides another sense of the state’s early settlement. Downtown, the Gaslamp Quarter, a nat ... From the guidebook "Camping Southern California"
San Diego, CA - Campgrounds (About Top Trails)

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