Dos Picos County Park

Nice site I stayed 1 night with W/E hook ups, my first time with my new camper trailer. It was ok, trailer spaces were tight but have plenty of tall trees, not much privacy. My space was next to a rec center to have a security light on all night, more stars than the city and the moon looked good in my telescope. Overall decent site, didn't have time to enjoy the hike, fishing or park.

The well-maintained campground boasts paved pads for most sites, making setup a breeze. Each site comes equipped with a fire ring and picnic table, perfect for cozy campfires and outdoor meals. The facilities are clean and convenient, including coin-operated showers and a dump station. The friendly and helpful rangers and camp hosts contribute to a relaxed atmosphere. Beyond the individual campsites, the campground itself is nestled within a beautiful park, offering a tranquil and scenic backdrop.

This place is a jewel, and if you live in San Diego, right in your backyard! Rangers are super helpful and friendly, the campground is clean and quiet, and the setting is beautiful. There’s a tranquil pond, nice hiking trails, places for kids to play…. Just a fantastic option close to home for locals and well worth consideration for visitors to the area.

Shouldn't have a problem finding a site here.

Second time here, booked to be close to the San Diego zoo safari park. This is a very well run county park.

The county park is quiet and peaceful. During the week I’m 1 of about 4 campers. It has filled up on the weekends with mostly families and scout troops. It is a mix of RV and tent campsites.

Nice little county campground, park-like setting, with several loops and nice walking trails and a duckpond, a little free library, outdoor exercise equipment, and a playground in the day use area. 

RV sites are power and water (50, 30, 20 amp), and the dump station is free for campground guests only (not open to non-guests). There is mixed recycling here as well as a separate bin for empty green propane bottles. Pretty good cell reception, streaming was a bit spotty but the weBoost took care of that. Showers were ok, ok pressure and not very hot. You pay directly in the shower with quarters (no tokens) .$1 for 8 minutes. Heads up that some of the sites might be technically long enough for your rig, but the roads are narrow and bushy, and it may be tough to navigate into the site. We had site #27 and we had to shuffle back and forth and scraped on the bushes in order to back in in our 28ft vehicle.

Great county park. Quiet and well maintained. Pay showers. $29/ night. Pets welcome. Fire pits and picnic tables at each site. Tent camping available as well.

This place was great! Lots of kids running around having fun over the weekend. Much quieter on weekdays, so far. Decent price and close to everything. Was easy to get a reservation for multiple days when others were more full.

We came in January so we had the entire upper camping loop to ourselves. The rangers were very helpful. This Campground has partial hookups with electricity at sites but no water. Level well spaced sites. Firepit and picnic table. Nice clean grounds, restrooms and showers (pay).They also have tent sites and cabins. County Park with playground is adjacent . 

Beautiful scenery, great star gazing, at least on our upper loop. There's only a small light on restrooms. We saw F16s practicing overhead. Very cool.

Good Verizon reception.

Clean , quiet place lots of oak trees

Nice, small campground for a quick getaway

Nice little county campground. Clean and well maintained. Some excellent hikes nearby.

Like it

The facilities were clean and the rangers were around for questions. There was a group there with loud music the second night and no one there to stop it so it persisted throughout the night. The area around the camp ground is nice with a park and places to hike. Will go back for sure.

Dos Picos is nice if you live close by and want to feel like you’re “getting away”. Nothing spectacular but it’s camping and it’s CLOSE! Just a couple miles from store or your house if you live in Ramona or Poway lol. Fishing pond is nice to look at, haven’t caught anything yet tho. I feel like the few times we’ve been, we have not had a site that was terribly close to another which is appreciated. There is also an event gazebo you can rent and a really nice playground.

The missus and I decided to do a midweek overnight escape and chose Dos Picos Park due to its close proximity.

Great little campground with partial (electricity & water) hookups. Don't know if the tent only sites have these. On-site dumping available, if you need it. Ok(ish) flushing restrooms and showers available. Better than a pit toilet!! Plenty of shaded spots with some mature trees around the campground. Firepits and picnic tables on each site. Trails all around to hike as well as a catch and release pond on grounds. Rangers were pretty adamant about quiet time starting at 10 pm. Rangers were super friendly, too.

One little gotcha, for me at least. There's no smoking of any product nor e-cig use allowed on the grounds. I personally look forward to enjoying a cigar around the campfire at the end of the day. Bummer but not a deal breaker.

This campsite was cool, came here October 4, 2013. Also a great experience! Came here with Land Arts class for the weekend and we had a blast! Camping here was as my professor Yoshi calls it, "spoiled camping". We had reception and were close to the nearest town!and Showers available!

Crazy busy on the weekends, but almost empty during the week. The sites are somewhat tight for 5th wheels and longer trailers, but can be fit it. The pads are pretty level, but all asphalt. The electric service is 50/30, so you can run A/C...which you absolutely need in Ramona during the summer through early fall. Nearby hiking and golf, as well as a short drive to Poway/Rancho Bernardo where any service, shopping, etc you may need is available.

This was my first camping experience! :) I enjoyed this campground. We stopped at the ranger office at the entrance and the check-in was very quick, restrooms were clean and overall there was a good atmosphere. We had a nice stay :)

I just recently bought a 2004 pop up trailer and this place was so beautiful! We were at site 48 which was secluded and close to the bathrooms. It’s partial hook ups (electricity and water). The dump station was clean and easy to get to, there was a hose to clean up or spray anything down. We did a night hike (we went when it was at lease 90-100 degrees) to the pond and found a huge bullfrog! I would go again!!

Dos Picos is a nice campground that's hidden in the hills of Ramona. It's a great place to base camp if you want to hike Mt. Woodson and Iron Mountain. Each is within a 5 - 10 min drive from the campground. There's also a nice public gold course nearby too. 

The campsite are varied. Some have nice shade and some don't. There's a little lake that allows fishing. 

Cell Coverage: Good

I really like this campground! The bathrooms are very clean and well maintained! The campground features a creek that runs through the tent sites towards the back! There were so many frogs and tadpoles! The creek eventually flows into a pond located on the other end of the campground. The pond is actually pretty large! Lots of space to walk around and explore. There is quite a bit of poison oak in the area, however you are in an old oak tree grove so it’s inevitable. Every other site was occupied in order to maintain new physical distancing requirements, the added privacy is great. Site 59 has to be one of the best tent sites, right on the creek with bathrooms close by. Lots of families so it was a little loud at some points of the day with all the kids running around, but not too much of an annoyance. Overall, I enjoyed my stay here. It is far enough from the main highway that you feel like you’re out in the woods. I would stay here again!

This park is County operated. You have to drive to the RV dump to dump. It’s close but you don’t have the convenience to dump at your site. There are park rangers available. It’s a good place for kids to run around. Ramona is close to: shop, eat, etc.

I have only tent camped here and enjoyed the quite and clean site. I like that it is not far from civilization but feels very remote. My kids caught their first fish in the little pond.

I have only tent camped here and really enjoyed the clean and quiet spot not too far from civilization but feels like in the middle of nowhere. My kids caught their first fish in the little pond :)