Our last camping trip in October got cut short by a family emergency so in February we decided it was time to redeem ourselves. Our go to campground is closed for the winter so we found Paso Picacho Campground in Cuyamaca State Park south of Julian that is open on a first come first serve basis year round (note you need reservations April-October). We drove out on a Saturday morning, took about an hour and 15 minutes from the coast. It was a great, quiet little campground. I swore I'd remember this but I'm not sure if it's correct, I think we chose site number 34. It had a great peek view of a meadow down below where we saw tons of white tail deer and amazing views of Stonewall Peak across the road. However the best (to us, most private) sites looked like they were at the back of the campground but that area was closed for some reason.
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| Site #34? |
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| View of Stonewall Peak |
We had hiked Stonewall Peak before so we decided to do Cuyamaca Peak, out the back side of the campground. It's a longer hike with a steady incline, I think about 6 miles round trip. We ended up taking the fire road the entire way up because we couldn't find another path that we were sure went where we wanted to go. The lower half of the hike was through the still burnt out trees of the fires that swept through this area a few years ago, kind of eerie looking at times but beautiful. Once we got up a little higher the greenery started filling in.
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| Happy Hikers |
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| Almost to the top, looking west |
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| Husband face |
This is definitely a campsite we'll come back to. We also want to try Green Valley Campground right down the road, it has a little stream running through it but it closed in the "winter." Julian is about 10 minutes up the road if you want your apple pie fix.
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