Old Highway 99

Read the reviews and thought this may not be such a great place to stay. Sure there was some wind and some road noise but it was fine for the night. The lot is close to level and large enough for multiple rigs. We didn't see one car drive by all night. Take exit 1 going north just over the boarder into Oregon. It is the second pull out on the right next to the exit. You have to drive north on that road to get back to the highway.

I also found the other spot 2 miles north with the Earth sign and everything to me says it is BLM land. My public lands map shows it as BLM and there is no private locations nearby. The road turns into private land farther north. I am going to do more research and stay there if it checks out. Maybe the officer mentioned in the previous post is incorrect.

I submitted new coordinates & photos, and they were applied to this existing listing. Most of the photos on this page are from a different parking spot 1.9 miles north, on the west side of Old Rte 99, where others and myself have previously camped (near a cement barrier with some symbols and "Earth" painted on it). That was a nice, quiet, pretty location.

Here's why it has changed:

I was at the previous location for 3 days working online, and on May 1st a state trooper knocked on my door and said the neighbors called 911 because of a tent. (I'm in a small Class C and don't have a tent, but one had shown up nearby the night before.) The officer asked if I had found that location online and I said yes. He then informed me that the land was not BLM and told me I had to move 1.9 miles south to a pullout located to the east of the highway interchange, where it is BLM land. He even admitted it was nowhere near as nice as the spot I was currently at. He also asked me to go online and report the correct location, which I am doing in this review.

I've attached map screenshots of the new and old sites.

The new location is a big wide, somewhat rutty (recently muddy) pullout very close to the freeway. Very windy and very noisy with no tree barrier from the freeway (as at the last site). Next to this pullout is a grassy hillside with small trees, which I photographed out my window. (I couldn't leave the rig to take more photos of the site because a truck with bee boxes showed up - and the place was then swarming with bees! Kinda funny.) Uploaded both those mentioned photos.

This new location is barely adequate for a quick overnight stop, and only convenient if you are traveling "from" or "to" the south. If you are travelling north, you cannot get back on the freeway here, the exit ramp only goes south. You'll have to go north all the way up the Old Rte 99 to Callahan's to get an exit ramp onto I-5 north.

Stayed just 1 night at the new coordinates. I won't be back.

This camp was ok. Its just a big pull out area along Hwy 99. There are no amenities here of any kind. Makes a good stop if your just passing thru, if you plan on staying a while I would recommend the Mt Ashland that is 20 minutes up the mountain.

It was very quiet here, only a few cars a day pass by. One other RV showed up last night and left in the morning. The PCT is about 2 miles down the road so there is some hiking available. And the town of Ashland is about a 15 minute drive.

Cell and internet reception is good here. For all the free camping in the area, I would only recommend this one for a one night stop.

We were looking for a easy and free spot to park overnight while traveling I-5. This is a great pick. Fairly level spots even for a 30' Airstream. The AT&T cell service is GREAT. 5 bars with 4G.

Easy to get to, just take the Mt. Ashland exit [if heading south]. I'm not sure of the exit for heading north. Then follow the Old 99 Highway SOUTH and about 3/4 of a mile from exit is this pull-off on the west side of the road.

Very quite, but we had the windows closed because it was cold.

A very large gravel pull off lot near I-5 in the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument (BLM), perfect for an overnight while traveling the I-5. The Old Hwy 99 is a very quiet road, so the only noise comes from I-5 which was faint with all our windows closed. There is fantastic reception here, full LTE Verizon and 1 bar of LTE Sprint. The pull off is a clean gravel lot that is level the closer you get to the trees. Be careful of the small trench in the lot by the road when pulling off Old Hwy 99. There is a little trail at the north end of the pull off perfect for dogs.

We found the most level spot was up by a concrete jersey barrier towards the edge of the lot by the trees.