Boulder Oaks Campground

Beautiful woodsy campground right off I-8!

Our friends and us stopped for a night here between San Felipe (Baja) and San Diego. Rolled in at 4:15 on a cold Saturday in early March and only one site was occupied. We fit our 30’ trailer (and truck) in site 4 and our friends fit their 25’ and truck in 5. Site was much higher in the back than the front - had to use all our blocks under the jack and stabilizers. Most of the sites here would not have fit us, there were probably a few more we could have tried but 4 was the best.

We had a great night and plan to hike a bit before we move on today.

Located at mile 26.2 of the Pacific Crest Trail. Small (14 sites) NFS campground adjacent to an equestrian campground. Reservations not available. We arrived on a Thursday and no one here but by Saturday morning they were nearly full. Highway is very close. Sites are appropriately spaced. Pit toilet, water available in the campground, no site-specific services. Probably not great for larger rigs. No problem for 23’ TT. Back-in only. Bumpy dirt road, most sites require leveling.

Spent a week here. The campground has dirt roads and dirt pads. There was very little traffic, in fact, there were only 3 other campers over the course of 7 days. The park also functions as a staging area for horse trails as well as a parking spot for the PCT. As a result, there are some decent, easy hiking trails.

It's $14/night, and you're not getting much, but I figured it's worth it for the water supply and ease of access to the campground. They also have a $5/day vehicle fee, but we were exempt thanks to the 4th grader in our family. (4th graders get a free pass to all national parks/forests!)

Sites were clean. There's a dumpster near the entrance to the camping loops. Pit toilets weren't the nicest but got the job done.

Access is right off old CA-80, which runs parallel with I-8. The highway is relatively close, but the highway noise was barely noticeable.

Not a very strong signal from T-mobile, but incredible speeds. I'm currently getting 54 Mbps down and 11 Mbps upload speeds. We've learned that signal strength and speed aren't necessarily related. When I get a phone call my speed drops to 2g speeds, but then when I'm done it's right back up to the LTE speeds noted above.