Campgrounds within 1/2 hour of Santa Cruz

[boncrab]

The other thread was moving toward the eastern Sierra.  I thought I would post this in a new thread. Here are a couple of possible choices for future rallies.

I have been searching and reading website after website.  I am surprised by the number of Campground/RV Parks that don't or can't allow campfires.  There were several possibilities in the redwoods, even further down in the Big Sur area, but most of them are smaller campgrounds and would not be able to accomodate a group of our size.  Others had mostly full and/or long timers and only a few sites for short time campers.  

One that would easily accomodate us was like a parking lot, crammed in. It had one nice area on grass under tall trees, but only 18 sites. HOWEVER, this campground has a larger area that would easily accomodate our size and it is set away from the main RV park area and noise would not be an issue.  But because of the annual Rennaissance Faire hat takes place in August a rally would have to be in June to mid July. The campground is "Casa de Fruta".  There is a large green/grassy area ringed in trees that is away from the concrete area.  The used to be a baseball diamond.  In the ring of trees are water/electric sites, about 40 or more.

Another camground to investigate is Garlic Farm RV Park in Gilroy, CA.  This is a very nice campground, about 35 minutes to Santa Cruz. The Garlic Festival is the week July 23-25, 2010.  Since this is a busy weekend with a festival they are more lax on the quiet hours. We would not be able to have campfires at our individual sites but would be able to have a group campfire in the pool/group area. There site price is $37.00 and with a group of more than 15 is 20% off. There is not an additional charge for extra people or pets.  You get 1/2 hour of free wifi per day (check out those e-mails) otherwise, she thinks (will check out for sure if many are interested) is approx $6.00 per day.  They are very KID friendly.   Please be sure to checkout the RV Clubs Page.

Let me know what ya'll think.

Bonnie

[miss kathy]

Casa De Fruta gets hot and so does Gilroy- in the summer temps of high 90s to 100- If we could get the grass area would be ok- the other area is a parking lot-

I am going to Gilroy this week-end and I will take a look at the Garlic RV park and take pictures.

miss kathy

[boncrab]

I asked the lady at Gilroy and 80 - 90 are their norms. They are on a hill that gets a lot of ocean breezes that keeps things normally cooler.

[miss kathy]

she lied
 
this is the forecast for this week-end and as you can see no breeze.

80øF
Wind: SE at 1 mph
Humidity: 49%Thu

83øF | 56øFFri

86øF | 59øFSat

85øF | 58øFSun

85øF | 58øF

[hatlet]

ok, just my opinoin, but they both look terrible
Case de fruta is in the middle of nowhere, and the other one, who wants to smell garlic all weekend?