Scenic Loop - Dispersed Camping

GREAT SPOT. so so close to the mountain. If you want to real dispersed camping you kind of just have to drive off the road there are some obvious adjacent roads to sites and also some not so obvious clearing that people just literally drive off the road into. If you are just looking to spend the night close the resort for parking you are not alone and will probably see everyone parked along the road on the side. Everyone gets up at 5:30 and drives to mountain and goes back to sleep. Great spot so beautiful. Drive the west half of the scenic loop road and keep an eye out. Day light helps for finding road turnoffs !

Got here on Sunday - plenty of spots to park the camper van both Sunday and Monday. Multiple turn offs on the Scenic Loop road to camp at. No bathrooms, water, electricity, or fire rings. Pretty dispersed but close enough to downtown. Would go back!

Overall this was a pretty good place to camp for one night. There are lots of obvious spots to camp both to the east and west sides of the scenic Loop. I’ve ventured in a little further and found a decent spot to camp with my teardrop trailer. Decent Verizon signal off of the Inyo Crater road.

Some people did not find the campground, and I couldn’t either… Until I realized that this campgrounded actually is a part of another one, up the road, you cannot drive directly into this one, but if you got the road there are plenty of places and you will see many different people camping, if you want Internet drive farther down the loops and you will get up to three bars of Verizon

We camped here in July of this year and it was perfect! Close enough to town but out of the way enough to be quiet. Plenty of spots too. The ones closest to the main road are taken over quick but if you have 4wd you can get back pretty far and away. One of the best nights sleep we had for our trip.

This is definitely a boondocker's paradise. Huge selection of spots and all sorts of roads to explore. Super close to the town of Mammoth too.

Right off of the Mammoth to June fire road. There were other campers, but mostly at the base of the hill.

This rod is hands down a campers fairy tail. There are over 100 campsites along this road all first come first serve. The PCT comes through this section of mammoth so there are, and I’m not kidding, hundreds upon hundreds of campsites. As you drive along this road, every 10 seconds you will pass a dirt road. Each dirt road has multiple campsites! Don’t get discouraged if one person is at the beginning of the road, that’s often the only people out there!