We are beginning to plan our February getaway from Southern Oregon to Southern Arizona.
We usually look for a campground (either public or private) for an overnight stay somewhere south of Sacramento and north of Bakersfield that is convenient to I-5. For overnight, price is the major consideration. Wouldn't need hookups, but nice bathroom facilites would be good. We usually don't unhook unless we have to. We have never been able to find a decent place in this general area.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
Do the best you can with what you have to work with.
You might like Basalt campground at San Luis Res. It's well situated, quiet and the bathrooms are clean with lots of water pressure in the quarter operated showers.
Southbound I-5 get off at Santa Nella (Hwy 33). Go south 3 miles to 152 west. Make a left turn in about 1 mile to the campground.
You might have the place all to yourself.
enjoy-
** sorry- I just noticed it will be closed until April 30th but there is another CG within a mile on the right at San Luis creek.
The park website lists first a description of its own campground and then a list of other campgrounds nearby:
"Camping
Fifteen campsites, open all year, will accommodate RVs or tents. Each site includes a picnic table and a camp stove; flush toilets are nearby. Facilities for disabled people are available. Turf, trees, and shade ramadas are other features. A nearby picnic area is shaded by 75 large trees, planted by the California Conservation Corps.
More campgrounds are available near Porterville which is about 40 miles north of Allensworth.
Rocky Hill Campground -- 108 sites, primitive.
Army Corps of Engineers -- Success Lake, east of Porterville.
Tule Recreation Area -- 104 sites, disposal station, flush toilets, showers.
KOA Campgrounds -- 5-miles east of Porterville on Hwy 109. Also, 13-miles north of Bakersfield, via SR 99 on Lerdo Highway."
We always take 99 to Bakesfield. No end to FJs and WMs,....Manteca, Ripon, Modesto, Tulare, FJ 10 miles N of Bakersfield, a popular spot. When I'm traveling/overniting, I don't pay for camping. I only pay for camping when I'm camping, and in AZ I don't even pay for camping
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If you can make it as far south as Coalinga, I can recommend Sommerville's Almond Tree RV park. Lots of shade, people of friendly. Easy on/off freeway.
Another nice park is San Lorenzo County Park in King City on 101. About $30 or so for full hookup, right off the highway, restaurant nearby, and they have a really interesting exhibit of dozens of farm tractors and old farming equipment.
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"Another nice park is San Lorenzo County Park in King City on 101."
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I posted a response to this comment earlier, but, apparently, the moderator took exception and removed it. I simply pointed out that King City and 101 is a *long way* from I-5, and since the OP asked for information on stopping places on I-5, I didn't think the 101 information would be of much help to him!
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