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This general recreation area is located on the north side of Palomar Mountain.
If you want to see the entirety of San Diego in one place, this is one of the best spots to do it from
Beautiful place where you can see lots of trees and snow in the winter (bring chains on your tires for the snow otherwise you will get stuck). I actually went for a hike and found a pack of dogs roaming out here that had no owner...be careful in the woods alone and only go during the daytime.
Went to visit back in the 1980’s and it was great.
Will visit again soon hopefully to do night sky tours and observations.
Loved the desert sky viewing!
For the first time in a long time, the pain in my hip allowed me the freedom to get in the car, on a longer jaunt, to Palomar Mountain. My wife & I were treated to a Photographers Heaven, with crazy blue skies, & impressive light play, the result of bright sunlight escaping truly massive clouds & cloud ceilings.
We waited about 10-15 minutes, to be able to continue to PMSP entrance, due to a road repaving inconvenience, up near Palomar Mountain SP, where road crews were hitting it hard. The roadwork this crew had already done, the bottom third of the way up the mountain, felt super smooth in my Rav 4.
the tranquility and beauty of this mountain is only tempered by a group of motorbike and car enthusiasts that, on a weekly basis, spend their time trying to prove that driving speed is inversely proportional to willy size
