Saddleback Butte State Park — Attraction in Lake Los Angeles

Saddleback Butte State Park is a state park in the Antelope Valley of the western Mojave Desert, in Southern California. It is located east of Lancaster, north of the community of Lake Los Angeles, and south of the city of Edwards in the unincorporated area of Hi Vista

Daytime use is $6, $5 for Seniors and $3 for the Disabled. Overnight camping is $20. Centralized Restrooms are available for the 50 camping sites. Each camping spot has a table, a fire ring and an overhead shelter.

The prominent feature and namesake of the park is Saddleback Butte, that is 3,651 feet (1,113 m) high.

Saddleback Butte State Park includes over 2,955 Acres of land, and was created in 1960 to protect the area's Joshua tree (Yucca brevifolia) desert habitat.

The lights of Los Angeles obscure the stars in the sky, so star gazing isn't advisable. A nice place to hang out away from the cities.

I've been utilizing this nice and fairly small park since the early 70s and have always found the park to be clean, spotless and well maintained, always free of litter! This is a wonderful park to feel the ambience and at times harsh weather of the western Mojave Desert. During the early spring the winds may blow excessively strong.

It's delightful to have this wonderful park as a great escape...

Quit isolated nature setting beautiful hike only trail not much wild life but loved the area middle of no where beautiful setting easy sandy trail to start then mile and half into it becomes hilly then end on rockey higher elevation no dogs bikes 🚴atv allowed small parking area with lots of day campimg sheds easy access from avenue easy to find on gps 9 to 5 wknd hours differs, restrooms opened nice and clean no wash basin there water tap its a single track trail most of the way there is faved 1/2 mile ADA LOOP for disabled good pit stop if you in area great hike not much shade other than covered camp site cool winds blows through spring hardly Amy body on wk days take precautions brong water gear good luck lots of seasonal flowers only spotted two different bloom see pictures 🫡 took me one hour and 1/2 around 80 miles from OC border no traffic going opposite direction i pit stop at 138/ 15 junction have safe trip...

We love this nice quiet state park- stayed here in December 2023 for a few days. We decided to stay here again (2-2-25 to 2-4-25)before heading to the Lance factory for some service. Unfortunately a homeless dude who we had a few interactions with the previous day started to ramp up the encounters and started to ask for food and cigarettes. When we told him we couldn’t give him anything he yelled and said he’d be back to take our stuff. So, we called the park number - only for emergencies. We hadn’t seen any park presence the day before or all today. Called the LA CO Sheriff’s office and left some info. Decided to leave park in case there would be more problems ( we had heard him yelling and talking to himself all day). Bottom line the CA state parks needs to moniter their campgrounds and have a way to...