Yaqui Pass Camp

I absolutely loved this camp spot. I was the only camper here on a Saturday night. Even if there are other campers, you will have plenty of space to spread out. Beautiful desert mountains on all sides, and gorgeous sunset. This camp is within Anza Borrego State Park. No facilities, hookups, water or anything here, just a relatively flat wide open area great for RVs/trailers dry camping. A few trails in the area but I didn't hike this time. Not far from Borrego springs if you needed to run into town for gas, groceries, dinner, hardware store.

I had 2 bars on T-Mobile, but only at the northern end of the camp area (near the highway). The south end (where the trailhead is) had zero cell service. You can hear cars passing on the road, but it was infrequent enough for me that the spot felt very peaceful.

This area is a big dirt lot about the size of a football field. Its really easy to pull in here and find a spot, there were only 2 of us here the night we stayed. There is a short hiking trail located at the back of the lot which can get busy during the day. We moved to this area from Blair Valley because we wanted to be closer to Galleta Meadows and The Slot hike, unfortunately the cell signal here was barely workable, even when boosted. There are no amenities here.

We were going to camp at Yaqui Wash but the road was too soft for a vehicle with no 4x4. The attendant at the pay campground nearby told us to try this one. This is basically just a giant parking lot but it was flat and had great sunset views! There is a little trail that looks out over highway 78 in the valley that is spectacular! We were the only people the whole night. Only a few vehicles past by throughout the night. Would have been nice if there was a pit toilet at the trailhead, but in the morning the pay campground attendant let us use the facilities there as there was no one there.