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Posted 21 April 2017 - 07:40 PM
Headed to Montana del Oro next Tuesday. Several spots open mid week.
Frank
That's a good place too!
Lots of crafty raccoons there so watch your food. I had a bag of chips stolen off the top of a table while I was about ten feet away. Little masked ninjas came in without a sound. They had a stockpile of stolen items in the hedge nearby.
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Posted 21 April 2017 - 09:26 PM
That's a good place too!
Lots of crafty raccoons there so watch your food. I had a bag of chips stolen off the top of a table while I was about ten feet away. Little masked ninjas came in without a sound. They had a stockpile of stolen items in the hedge nearby.
Thanks for the heads up.
Last time we camped there there was a bobcat,(the animal not camper) near our site during the morning.
It's a nice place with the ocean just there.
Frank
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Posted 24 April 2017 - 01:20 PM
X2 on Cambria/San Simeon area and of course you must see the elephant seals. Only drove through once and did not overnight, but Cambria immediately became a "place to return to when we can stay a few days".
Foy
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Posted 13 May 2017 - 03:01 AM
I recommend the Montana De Oro camping also. We take our horses, and camp at the south end in Hazard canyon, and then ride all the park from Diablo to the mountain top. If you take a mountain bike, it has so many trails you cannot see them all in one weekend too!
I also second the raccoons, as well as pesky deer that steal from the table tops and the coons can even open cheap coolers!!
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Posted 24 May 2017 - 07:07 PM
And with massive landslide on Hwy 1, 6o miles south of Monterey just a couple of days ago I'd forget the coastal route for this year at least.
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Posted 25 May 2017 - 06:35 PM
And with massive landslide on Hwy 1, 6o miles south of Monterey just a couple of days ago I'd forget the coastal route for this year at least.
Even before this recent big slide, CA 1 was already fully closed in 3 places between Big Sur and San Simeon (approximately), according to the CalTrans map. Clean-up/repair from a couple of previous slides and the bridge work already mentioned.
So... a fully-on-CA 1 trip was already not in the cards.
Nevertheless: In 2 weeks I plan to head that way anyway, even if I can't do the 'definitive' central coast drive. It's only 600 miles to Monterey from my house (yes, "only" 
) so not a big investment in time and in my car not a big investment in fuel, either.
I don't have an itinerary yet (other than my first couple of nights at friends/family homes), but thanks to all for the input on what to do, where to go. 
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