Cabin options near Monterey Park include the Historic Zorthian Ranch offering primitive cabins with limited amenities, shared toilet facilities, and picnic tables. Millard Trail Campground provides rustic cabin accommodations with basic furnishings among several tent sites. Crystal Lake Recreation Area in Azusa features cabin rentals with access to drinking water, toilet facilities, and fire pits amid mountain surroundings. Antfarm LA maintains two cabin sites with drinking water, showers, toilets, and picnic tables. One camper noted that Zorthian Ranch is a "quaint spot that may or may not be currently open, has beautiful hiking and a small spot for picnic."
Reservations are generally required for cabin rentals, with most properties open year-round. The White Lodge offers drive-in cabin accommodations with showers and toilet facilities but prohibits pets. Newport Dunes RV Resort provides more upscale cabin options with full hookups, showers, and pet-friendly policies. Crystal Lake cabins remain available from April through December, while other properties maintain year-round availability. Several locations restrict pets in cabins, though Newport Dunes and Fairplex RV Park welcome them. A visitor to Antfarm LA reported: "It's a spot where you can truly be away. We spent 5 days and didn't really see a soul."
Most rustic cabins require guests to bring bedding, towels, and cooking equipment. Cabin facilities range from primitive structures with minimal furnishings to fully-equipped units with electric hookups. Several locations provide firewood for purchase, while others prohibit fires entirely. Millard Trail Campground offers bear boxes for food storage due to wildlife activity in the area. Crystal Lake Recreation Area includes a cafe and small market for supplies. Bathrooms are typically shared vault or pit toilets without showers at more remote locations, while developed areas like Newport Dunes offer full bathroom facilities with hot showers.
"Cool drive to get to the campground. You drive up and down these hilly roads up the mountain to get there. Once there, there's a parking lot that fits about 20 cars."
"Fun little campground with decent facilities and beautiful surroundings. Lots of trails all around with a nice hike of about 1/2 mile up to Millard Falls that is easy for kids and grown ups."
"Has a fire pit at each spot. Has picnic table, but very splintery, bring covers. Most sites have tree coverage."
"There are lots of spacious camping sites, clean bathrooms, running water, numerous of shade trees, and a cafe/store for all the things you forgot or for a ice cream treat on a hot day!"
$25 - $60 / night
"This place has a lot of sites available. If you want cell service you have to to the far back towards the top of the park for cell service for phone and streaming."
"This is one of the best handicap accessible shower and restroom areas we’ve seen."
"We ended up unexpectedly staying at Sturtevant Camp because we left a scary experience at Spruce grove trailhead nearby."
$50 / night
"Very peaceful spot for a long weekend. 5 days was a little much unless you have a car to visit around and did I say it was gated too."
$75 - $550 / night
"Beautiful weather, great location, full hook ups, fun activities, family & pet friendly!"
"We've stayed at Newport Dunes many times, and it's great for a last-minute beach vacation especially when most state beach campgrounds are booked out way in advance. "
"It's quaint quiet but you're packed in like sardines it's a tight fit but everybody here is pretty friendly there's a few downfalls for some of the spot test for you can't park your car there in the parking"
"Although you are packed in pretty tightly like sardines it's a friendly environment very welcoming just the larger of your RV is little bit harder it might be to park they do offer full hookups they have"
$25 - $75 / night
"Campsites were a short distance from the beach. Campers had free access to private beach, water wasn't too cold and there were tons of tide pools some big enough for my 4 year old son to snorkel in."
"We had 30/50 amp electrical and water. Dump station is on your way out, with 3 stations in that row. Wi-Fi works fair. Cell towers are in sight just to the north, so no reception issues."
$125 - $200 / night
ScoutPros: campground is very short walk to Lytle Creek. Also close to the trail for a hike to Bonita Falls.
Cons: Not enough bathroom facilities for the amount of campsites. Women’s restrooms had only two stalls, constantly a long line. Also quiet hours are not enforced.
Bring cash if you want to rent a fire pit. Sites do not have their own fire rings and you must rent one.
TravelerA little something for every type of camping. Cabins, paved pull through & natural dirt & grass. Friendly staff to check us in gates close at 10:pm your provided with a security gate code to get back in if your out late.
Lots of families with children, fishing for catfish in the little lake which is shaded with trees and plenty of tables to picnic by the lake. Playground plus lots of grassy areas. We stayed in the natural area with hook-ups everything worked great.
Neighbors were nice, cute set ups with twinkle lights and people enjoying outdoor fire pits. Campers we’re playing music, laughter echoes through camp ground but nothing too loud and all quiet later.
We drove over to the Mission Inn (8 min drive) enjoyed lunch. Their is a pedestrian only shopping area with a Saturday farmer’s market plus lots of restaurants.
The campground sells firewood plus has a little store. Would stay again.
GuideCool drive to get to the campground. You drive up and down these hilly roads up the mountain to get there. Once there, there's a parking lot that fits about 20 cars. There's about 100 yd hike to the campsites. There's a road that leads to the campsite but it's been blocked off. Only the campsite managers use that road so it's not accessible by RV, just tents. A campsite manager stays in a little trailer overnight so if there's any problems there's somebody there you can go to and ask for help. There's about six campsites and their first come first serve, no reservations. I went during the week and was the only one camping. This place is heavily used for day camping and hiking. There's not a lot of privacy because there's always lots of people passing by who are hiking and biking. You can stay overnight which I did and everything was fine but there's not a lot of privacy. The next day as I was leaving there was another guy sitting up his tent. I bet on the weekends they can fill up pretty fast. It's in Bear country so they provide food storage for each campsite also trash containers too. Each side has a picnic bench and a fire pit. The fire ban has been lifted so you can have a fire. Each fire pit had wood left at it so you didn't have to go searching for campfirewood. Bathrooms included male and female toilets but no showers or water. There's a creek that runs through the campground which makes it very pretty. I saw two to three cabins along the outskirts of the campground that I assume were for rentals. There was one family at one of the cabins the night I stayed. About a 20 minute hike and you can end up at a waterfall which is very pretty. But there are several trails to take for hiking and biking and I saw lots of people doing that. Overall a good campsite four stars. Would have been five stars if they had showers and running water. I didn't see any bears although there was an animal outside my tent at one point in the night I could hear him nosing around. So it's important to keep all of your food and anything with any kind of smell in the bear boxes
ScoutVery large park for RV, cabin and tent camping. As it's listed as a "resort", we figured it would be pretty upscale. Disappointment upon our arrival. Floods have been in the area and much of the sites were closed and being cleaned?? The road closest to our site was washed away (from earlier reviews it's been months), so a long jog or drive around the perimeter to get us to the pool, laundry and hot tub…speaking of which, the pool, hot tub and laundry facilities all needed attention. You could actually see people's footprints (bottom of pool and on pool and hot tub entry steps)…that much sand, dirt, etc…I didn't venture in. When we arrived, we started driving around to find the best site for our rig. We're a 32ft class A w/20ft enclosed cargo trailer tow. So, all in all about 55ft. Well, that wasn't easy. Most of the park's electric and some sewer connections didn't exist or were "down" for repair. We have yet to actually SEE someone working on these issues. We are currently here and checked in for a two-week stay. After some boon docking prior to our arrival, we wanted all the bells and whistles the park boasted they had. Took us just over THREE HOURS to find a decent spot. Many levels to this park and most didn't have a decent WiFi (we have our own router) signal. Some sites had dumpsters blocking them from being a true "pull-thru". That left us with about two areas to choose from. It's dusty, dirty, and, really, not ready to be called a "resort"….more rustic than we'd been looking for or what website photos showed. We would not recommend this "resort" to anyone. Several folks with dogs they let simply sit outside and bark, poo, etc….strict rules against that, in most all resorts we've ever visited. Unless you plan on tenting, cabin or what have you, it's not worth it. Very disappointing! :(
LegendWe ended up unexpectedly staying at Sturtevant Camp because we left a scary experience at Spruce grove trailhead nearby. And wow, what an amazing experience we had here! We walked up to the campgrounds after it was already dark, and the camp host came outside of his cabin within a minute. He saw our headlamps and greeted us by asking if everything was okay. We asked if we could set up our tent near the cabins, and he offered to let us stay in one of the cabins that happened to be open that weekend. Some of the most amazing hospitality I've encounted while camping, really restored my faith in humanity. We made a donation after we got home as a thank you.
The facilities have running water and electricity. The camp host preps coffee and hot water in the morning so that other hikers coming through can stop for a warm beverage. What an amazing place!
TravelerBeautiful weather, great location, full hook ups, fun activities, family & pet friendly!
GuideUsually come week after Thanksgiving when 25% occupied. They provide gate / bathroom / laundry codes for late arrivals. Nice level grounds to walk around. Lakeside has gravel roads / pads... other side has asphalt roads / concrete pads. Restrooms are clean and acceptable. Lakeside showers require tokens... inquire at check-in. Limited shower seating to change clothes both sides. Easy drives to downtown area to see Mission Inn Christmas lights and walk around lake at city park. Cabins on-site look good and had some holiday lights. Store on-site has basics for camping and fishing. Overall a good place at this time of year.
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TravelerThis campgroud has two sections. The lakeview area has dirt roads, sparse grass and a few spots close to the lake. The Cottonwood campground has concrete pads and well maintained grass throughout. This campground may have been renovated recently by the looks of it.
There is a small store and a couple of cabins too, but the cabins don’t appear to be bookable via the website.
I stayed in both and liked the spacing and grass better in the cottonwood campground but overall this park was a nice surprise for us, especially given the limited amount of “good” campgrounds around LA.
Showers available, but only ok. Need to use tokens for them. Cottonwood has full hookups thru out, and lakeview is mostly just water/electric with a dump site near the entrance.
Definitely would stay again. Weekends are very busy here
Cabin accommodations near Monterey Park include facilities at Camp at the Historic Zorthian Ranch and Millard Trail Campground. The White Lodge provides furnished cabin rentals with shower facilities, drinking water, and trash services in a rustic woodland setting. At Zorthian Ranch, the cabins include picnic tables, toilet access, and fire rings while accommodating up to five visitors at once. Millard Trail Campground offers more basic accommodations with vault toilets but no running water. A camper described the experience: "There are approximately 4-6 sites, they are somewhat haphazardly spaced on a relatively flat area with good shade. There is little or no cover between sites."
Rustic and deluxe cabins are both available, depending on the location. Most properties require reservations, especially during peak seasons. Crystal Lake Recreation Area operates seasonally from April to December, offering pet-friendly cabin options with nearby market access. Antfarm LA provides a more secluded cabin experience with only two sites available. "It's a spot where you can truly be away. We spent 5 days and didn't really see a soul," noted one visitor. Fire regulations vary by campground, with some locations prohibiting open flames while others provide designated fire pits.
Most cabins include minimal furnishings, requiring visitors to bring their own bedding, towels, and cooking equipment. The Crystal Lake Rec Area includes a cafe and store for supplies and meals. One reviewer mentioned: "No need to bring wood up there, Adam sells wood by the wood barrel full and it's GREAT hardwood, burns all night." Bathroom facilities at most cabin locations are limited to pit toilets rather than flush systems. During summer months, insect repellent is recommended for cabin stays, particularly at Crystal Lake where visitors reported mosquito activity.
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