A few years ago Jeff and I purchased a membership in a group of campgrounds. It’s called Colorado River Adventures (CRA) and they have 9 campgrounds. Several are along the Colorado River and we stayed at several of them the past few years. One is in Julian, CA about 45 miles from Vista up in the mountains. We haven’t stayed at that campground yet.

One campground is in northern Ca. less than an hour from South Lake Tahoe. It’s called Ghost Mountain Ranch and we’re at the tail end of a two week stay here in the campground near the town of Pollock Pines.

It’s beautiful here, lots of pine trees as well as Ca. Oak and Madrone trees. Madrone are similar to manzanita which is very common down in San Diego County. Madrones have the red wood like a manzanita but they are large trees instead of large bushes and they have larger leaves.

The campground is quite rustic, which we don’t mind. Our site is amongst large pine trees so we are in the shade most of the day which is great cause it’s in the 90s here every day!!

One thing I don’t care for here at Ghost Mountain is the very fine dusty dirt. The campsites are somewhat gravel and mostly fine dirt which gets all over your feet and shoes and gets tracked into the house. Lots of vacuuming and washing of feet/shoes!

We head out on Monday going towards the coast where it’ll be cooler.

Here’s a picture of the campground – not showing our site however.