Culp Valley Primitive Campground — Hotel in San Diego Country Estates

I stayed there the night of March 2nd, 2019. It was very windy and fairly cold. I think the actual temperature would have been fine if not for the windchill and spitting rain from the clouds stuck on the mountain a few miles away. The wind blew the moisture across.

Free primitive campground with clean and stocked pit toilets (depending on who went before you anyway). The road in is rough but can be navigated with a passenger vehicle (I drove a Prius on them). I’ve hit bottom coming out of California business driveways more often.

It’s located well up the mountain from Borrego Springs on a scenic highway. Borrego Springs is a Dark Sky community, so there’s good stargazing

You are supposed to use a metal container for fires, but the site where I camped had a fire ring that had been used. I don’t think I’d have had a fire even if I’d had a metal container. The wind was that strong (and I’m a Kansas boy, I know strong winds). I also saw discarded gas cylinders that I was going to pack out but got distracted. I’ll never be able to wrap my head around people go want to be in nature but have no problem trashing it out or burning it down. That said, it was only my campsite where I saw these issues.

All in all, a very picturesque stay, but the wind...

This is one of my favorite campgrounds to go to in Anza Borrego State Park. It's a great place to go if you want just a weekend get away. Check my YouTube out @keychainproduction for a full video review on the campground. My wife and I have camped here multiple times and we always a great time. Since it is a primitive campground, there are less amenities, i.e, there are no picnic tables. Vault toilets are available. Sometimes the campground can get pretty windy because it is situated within a valley. If you need running water, it's about a 17 minute drive to Borrego Springs and there's flushable toilets at Christmas Circle Community Park. From Borrego Springs it's another 25 minute drive to Fonts Point where you can see beautiful views of the valleys that shaped the...

Gorgeous location, with nice trails and decent pit toilets. HOWEVER, because this campground doesn’t require reservations, it attracts party crowds on Saturday nights. We had a lovely site set up on Saturday afternoon, then at 7:30 pm cars started pouring in to the site next to us. They continued to arrive until 10 pm, when there were 12 cars in total. They were loud and obnoxious well into the night, making us miserable. Avoid this place on weekends. We will only camp here in weekdays...