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Camping is available on a first come-first serve basis, we do not take reservations. Twelve campsites (two are elevated ADA compliant), with picnic tables, fire pits, horse corrals and ADA compliant vault toilet. Electricy and drinking water is not available. There is no garbage service, please act responsibly and pack out any refuse you have. It has some of the few shade trees on the monument. Formerly owned by the Kern County Land Company, the KCL still has a few of the original barn structures as well as some of the corrals. Please refrain from entering the barn structures.
Once on Carrizo Plain National Monument, continue on Soda Lake Road until you arrive at sign for KCL Campground. Turn onto KCL Campground Road and travel 1/2 mile to campground.
Spent one (very cool) week day night here to test a new tent. Clean, very quiet other than mating owls. Clean pit restroom.
Fire rings and clean finished cement tables. We knew there were washboard roads inside park.
Very rustic. We were there to see the great 2017 flower bloom. The campground is a first come first serve. We were fortunate to get a spot with a picnic table. The best part about it was that it is free. The other campers all seemed to be very nice. The bathrooms were clean.
Very beautiful primitive spot. Small but intimate. Two pit toilets, with tissue and hand sanitizer (no sink). No trash, sometimes water at a single spigot for campers use only. Very quiet and peaceful. Would give 5 stars, but 14 miles (coming from the south) of rough road at 15 mph (in an RV!) to get to it. It's easier in a car. The road will flood when it rains, so try to avoid it for a few days afterward.
Beautiful intimate campsite. I went April 2023 and it was completely packed! A bit of a free for all where you park wherever you can and set up on any available patch of grass. Camp neighbors were awesome and friendly, bathrooms surprisingly didn’t smell. Few trails that you and your dog can explore on.
