Nice, accessible, place to test out your backpacking gear locally in Orange County before taking a bigger trip. 3.5 mile hike up from the beach parking lot. Relatively clean pit toilet, available trash cans, most sites have a picnic table, no running water.

Downsides include that it is right along a trail used by local exercisers (people were hiking by and playing loud music in the evening), and there are an abundance of rats that we could see and hear in the bushes near our site. Secure your food! Also not a lot of separation or privacy between campsites, and at least two sites are on a slope. Checkout is also 9am, which could be a problem if you are a late riser...but the hikers and runners would probably wake you up before that!