Mount Pinos Campground

We did a little family getaway and stayed at Pine Mountain Club and traveled about 20 minutes up the mountain to play in the snow! We all had a blast.

Camped at site 12. I would not recommend. The picnic table, and really only semi-level place is about 100 feet down from the driveway, and about 50 feet up a hill to the fire ring. I thought it would be okay to drive off the driveway, down to the table to unload my gear. (I have an AWD SUV, and it was no big deal.) Wrong! I had literally just stopped, had not unloaded anything, when I got yelled at by this horribly mean Camp One woman. I apologized, acknowledged my error and immediately moved my vehicle back to the driveway. No harm, no foul, right? Like 10-minutes later, this gal comes back, and apparently not satisfied, gets out of her truck and gives me a tongue lashing and starts threatening me with hundreds of dollars in fines. She keeps saying "I'm lucky the forest service did not ca

This campground is smaller than campground McGill. It is a beautiful forest. The Chumash believe this campground in the center of the world!

Spot 7 was great and flat. There were no bugs, probably because it was really windy. Might be better to go in the summer. It was a little too cold in May.

Awesome camp ground, top of the mountain and nice views.