Bonita, CA :: Sweetwater Summit Regional Park (currently closed due to COVID-19)
Pros:
- sites are long and wide, and there are lots of space between sites
- inexpensive daily rates, average $35/day depending on your site
- 10 minutes from the closest no-toll highway
- roughly 20 minutes from San Diego and the ocean
- access to playgrounds, equastrian paths, and hiking and cycling routes
- most of the sites are level and paved
- all sites have fire pits
- they offer camper, trailer, and tent camping among 112 sites – many with access to water, power, and sewer
- the park rangers are all very nice and drive through the park regularly
- although the park is close to the highway, it’s pretty quiet throughout the area
- clean restrooms and coin-operated showers
- new bike pump track at the base of the park entrance (free to the public but currently closed)
Cons:
- no laundry on site
- pincher bugs (earwigs) everywhere (we still found some under our RV weeks after we left the park)
- no monthly rates (you can only stay at park for 21 days at a time)
- even if you have reservations, there is only one lane to go in making the wait time very long during check-in time
- $3/day for an extra vehicle or visitors
View of the RV park from the hill behind the park
This was one of the very first campgrounds we stayed at when we first started our journey. We were still living in San Diego at the time, but we had already moved out of our condo and staying full-time in the Airstream. The kids were still involved in Scouts, training at their martial arts studio, taking music lessons, and taking classes at their homeschool enrichment center. So we had to find a place we could stay at that wasn’t too far from everything the kids had to go to. We absolutely loved this RV park. It was a great starting point to break in the RV, learn the ins and outs of full-timing, as well as figure out what we could do without or still needed to live comfortably. It’s definitely on our list of parks we would stay at again. You can get more info on their website or on their their current brochure.
RESERVED SITE: We had several sites while we were there, but our favorite was 125. It was a pull-through, full hook-up site that overlooked the canyon.
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