Sweetwater Regional Park - San Diego, California

Up at 7 am to pack and make our way toward California. Thought we might stay in Yuma but it was a very windy day so sand was all in the air, not a pretty site so kept on driving. The 1st part of California was pretty cool, sand dunes everywhere! Had a lot of RV-Toy Haulers with ATVs for playing on the sand. After leaving the sand we got into the mountains and did the temperature drop and the mountains were made of big boulders. Just boulders, like God had gathered them up and made big piles of rocks. Was very interesting terrain!

Sweetwater Regional Park, San Diego, CA

The San Diego area has a lot more mountains than I expected. I had found a County Park that was close to town so called and made reservations and a good thing that I did that too. Sweetwater Park only had 2 sites open so we got site 48. Thought we be there by 5:30ish but it was closer to 7 so got to set up in the dark which I hate doing. The site was not very level so the front had to be jacked up pretty high. We had not eaten yet, stressed for the drive and terribly home sick – had a minor meltdown. We ate a little then took a stroll around the park. It’s about a half mile circle with backins on the outside and double layers pull throughs on the inside of the circle. Horse back riding must be popular as most of the outside circle sites had pens for horses. It’s up on a hill so we can see the valley below.