Sweetwater Summit Regional Park Campground

Great place to camp if you want to explore San Diego. The beach is only ten miles away.
The campground is divided up into two sides: South loop being lengthy dirt pads, doubled up (no privacy), with horses pens, picnic tables, and fire pits. Each site has water and electric hook ups. There’s one bathroom with 2 of the 3 pay showers working and 1 of the 2 toilets working. They don’t seem to be in a hurry to do repairs.
The North loop is much nicer with lengthy paved pads, water, electric, and sewer. You’re not doubled up and actually have some space between sites but still little privacy. There’s actually two bathroom buildings on the North loop with 6 individual (private) bathrooms including 4 handicapped bathrooms of which 2 were closed for repairs. They didn’t seem to be in a hurry to do the repairs and I wonder if they were ADA compliant with 2 shut down. The bathrooms were pretty nice but the showers weren’t mad for taller people and the showered heads were too close to the valve causing them to be against you back when under the shower (Poorly done with no concern for actual use or people over 5’ 10”).
There are nice views of town and the reservoir from some campsites. Lots of trails for hiking, biking, or horseback riding, in the area. Close to shopping. Cell service for Verizon.
Teach your children and keep your pets near because there are snakes in the area. I saw 2, including a rattler.
The park service seems to spray after each guest but they still have an ant problem. Luckily they are the tiny black variety which don’t seem to do much damage as long as you seal you four. Then again, we will see how long it takes me to get rid of then after I leave.

In conclusion I would say this is a very nice place to camp, especially the newer nicer North loop. Would visit again.

Great base for San Diego exploration. 30 minutes from Mission Bay, Coronado Island, the Zoo, and 45 minutes to La Jolla. Very well maintained. One campground is open/no shade, the other has trees. Corrals available for equestrian campers. Good trails in the campground and lead to others in the county park. Showers take tokens. Road noise is pretty substantial but you're in the middle of the city so. Would have stayed longer but the stay-at-home order closed it (understandably). Great campground

We stayed here for a week and half and used it to explore San Diego. There are two loops. The first loop does not have full hook ups but has more shade and sites for horses, which our family enjoyed. The back loop looks newer, has full hook ups and less shade. There are hiking trails to enjoy and firewood for sale. We took day trips out to different beaches each day and found that this is 30-60 minutes from most places we wanted to go, so plan on some driving around if that is your goal. Highways and air traffic creates more noise than most places we go.

This campground is very, very nice. Site #78 is huge and like most of the sites is very well separated by natural shrubs, Roomy and clean. The concrete pads are dead level.

The one caveat (it must be a California thing) We unhooked our towed car before arriving at Sweetwater. Upon checking in with the lady at the entrance booth. She informed me that since the car was unhooked from our coach. She was going to charge us a daily extra car fee. She would not even accept that the car has a tow plate. So we blocked traffic and hooked up our car just to drive through the gate then unhook it. Talk about being Pedantic and drunk with power.

After being on the road for 3 months of federal camping it was great to have a heated shower and unlimited electricity 😀 we paid 33$ per night and it included water and power but no dump spot.

The view from campsite 4 is excellent.

The neighbor spots are pretty close but empty during the week.

Verizon is very fast.

There are a ton of ants but if you sprinkle diatomaceous earth around all the touch points or tents it keeps them out.

It is quiet and well kept, even has security checking around periodically.

There is a 7 min drive to get out to anywhere.

Sweetwater has been a fantastic San Diego landing spot for us for the last three years. Relatively easy access to the sights of the city, but removed enough that you have a little space. Sites are well spread. The variety of hiking, biking, walking and running trails leading straight from the campground is tremendous.

A few words of warning: you need to be aware of and cautious about a number of critters that inhabit this park. SNAILS – on any moist night, which are most nights around here due to marine layer, the snails will invade to the point you can barely walk. They're adorable (as much as snails can be), but don't leave your tow's windows open or you'll have a snail invasion by morning. ANTS – As soon as you arrive, use repellant or Borax or another agent to keep them at bay, otherwise they'll invade your coach within 24 hours and you'll spend the rest of your trip eliminating them. They're harmless, but annoying. RABBITS & SQUIRRELS – It's heartening to see so many inhabiting the area, but you'll need to be extra careful when driving because they'll dash in front of you from any direction. RATTLESNAKES – In the roughly 30 nights we've spent here in the past few years, I've encountered over a dozen rattlesnakes. And that's despite avoiding the trails during the heat of the day. They're on the trails, and sometimes they're in the campground. Particularly if you have dogs, you'll need to be extremely cautious. I recommend dog walking/hiking early in the morning, when they either aren't out yet or are moving too slowly to be truly dangerous. COYOTES – Again, lots of them scouring the fields in search of dinner. Keep your pets close.

Please don't let the animals deter you though. This is a great campground in a fantastic regional park that the animals love too.

We love the weather here in San Diego so head back here often. After making reservations online, where you have to choose a site, we were able to cruise through the check-in process. Just don’t arrive before 2:00. They won’t let you in!
We only have 25 ft of RV but some of the back-in sites are a challenge to get into with quite a dip upon entry. Others have scraped bottom! We scoped our some other sites we’ll choose from next time ie. 123, 125 but NOT 126. Our site was easy to back into but our tow car was parked on a major slope. And, if you arrive un-hooked you’ll pay $4 more per night for the extra vehicle.
Bathrooms are open even with COVID-19.
$40 total per night

Nice park. We have a 40ft 5th wheel and a 23 foot dually and our site was big enough for both with room to spare. Restrooms were clean. While we were here several sightings of rattlesnakes-one under a neighbors jeep and coach. Rangers drive through often. Check in was a little over the top-had to show vehicle and RV registeation. Ranger said it had helped decrease crime!