El Chorro Regional Park — Attraction in San Luis Obispo

I would give 5 stars based on the park only, but the customer service deserves zero.

The Positive: Our family's first time visiting, we were excited to see what the camp held. The site was nice sized and we appreciated going into restrooms and showers that were well-kept and clean. There is a park that we visited, climbed on top of large rock, walked the botanical gardens, climbed the hill, chased lizards, and had fun discovering the area. We made day trips to Morro Rock for shopping and restaurants and hung out back and forth. There are grocery stores down the road, so the location of this site was ideal as well.

The Negative: We felt uneasy as we had noisy neighbors and no staff or rangers came around and we could not get a hold of anyone to assist us. I understand it's not the fault of the staff that our neighbors were inconsiderate, but it was the staff's response that ruined it. Neighbors were drinking and made racket for hours through the middle of the night and our family was unable to sleep. I spoke with an attendant in the morning and she snapped at me telling me that they got in late and she wasn't going to tell them to not set up. I told her they got in at 10 yet they weren't blowing up their air mattresses until midnight so they had been here and had plenty of time to set up. She scolded me in her response, telling me "again I'm going to tell you that I'm not going to tell these people that they can't set up". I had no problem with them setting up, it was the timing along with the drunken behavior that bothered us. She didn't care to hear what I was telling her, made faces. Very rude. In addition to this, the showers require $1 in quarters for each shower and there are no change machines or anyone to make change so we left the site and went to Albertson's, (no big deal). Then the machine ate our quarters. We informed the same ranger on duty and she just said "ok" looked away and moved on. She didn't not refund or ask which shower it was. I don't know what her problem was because I am a really polite person and made an effort to approach her with respect and kindness, yet it was not reciprocated during either point of contact. The park itself was great and gets 5 stars. It's the feeling of not being safe and treated disrespectfully for reporting concerns is what ruined this trip for us. We won't...

We were returning from SLO to Morro Bay in the late morning and decided to pull over -first to the golf course resturaunt - a lot of space for big meetings,had an interesting display of the generations of local farmers. Now the restaurant itself is small ,relaxed the young gentleman who came out from the back to take our order was friendly,easy going,knowledgeable and with a sense of humour(all this in a few minutes transaction!) I had a 12 oz 805 beer with a good. sized breakfast burrito-that he went to the small kit hen in the back and made himself(lots of cheese! Crammed with egg and other good stuff)we sat outside in a patio that overlooked a golf course (half of it was now closed to make room for a zip line) and marveled at the deer and Hawks cruzing overhead!!The patio furniture was this aluminum stuff that I took interest in because there were 2 cool looking rocking chairs-(now I'm on a quest to find something similar that won't break and last a while.well that is on the left side and to the right of the restaurant is a nature center,park and children's nature park. The upper half is hilly and still Mapped out for further developement We saw a walking tour being given for older adults. I chose a self guided tour thru multiple narrow dirt trails that had clear signage of the plant and tree names and I believe what uses the plants had.The children's learning area looked run down and well used. There was also a larger grassy park area with hard core BBQ's for large parties and events. On the weekday we went -besides the tour,there was hardly anyone there. I secretly desired to return to the golf course resturant and order up another beer just so I can sit back out on the patio rocking chair and watch the Hawks...

Great campsite along highway 1 between San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay. Spent a couple nights here in April 2022. No online booking interface when we went and reservations had to be made over the phone. This was a nice alternative to the state parks nearby which were booked solid months in advance.

There are three loops of campsites all of which can accommodate RVs. Romauldo and Chumash campsites are full hookup, mostly back-in. A select few in the Chumash loop have the utility hook-ups on the 'wrong' or left side of the parking space when looking at the site. Check the map included in this post to ensure you don't book one of these sites or be prepared with extension cords and an extra sewer line. The Bishop loop has 10 of 17 designated as pull through but there are no hook-ups in this loop. Clean bathrooms with pay for showers are available.

The Bridge Trail next to Chumash site 15 is a shortcut across Dairy Creek to the playground, botanical gardens and dog park. There are fun exhibits for kids and adults around the nature center with helpful informative staff. There is a short nature trail behind the center with a giant sundial, neat vegetation and all kinds of hawks and raptors soaring around looking for food. At the peak of the loop you can break off toward Eagle Rock trail which leads further up the hill to a giant rock (which looks more like a lion than an eagle to me) and impressive views...