Caitlin Grant

06/12/2024

I love this place. I was broken heart to find out you can only stay for 14 days at a time and only 60 days a year(max, combined all parks). This is a great place to camp both in tents or RVs. It’s close to shopping and town but far enough out you see many safe forms of wildlife. The trails are well maintained and safe. It’s kid friendly and has a great splash pad open during the summer. It’s a little chunk of wilderness in the middle of thriving city. It is a great place to learn how to camp without being in danger.

Jim Cenname

07/16/2024

Sweetwater park is large, the campground with about 130 sites is near a reservoir. The sites are roomy and have natural barriers between them. Sites 1-60 look like unlevel dirt. 61 and above are mostly paved, mine was level. The few that aren't paved are "road-base," crushed rock and rock dust. The many bathrooms are clean and neat. County staff care for the park. The natural areas are mostly natural brush and weeds. The grass is mostly dead. Maybe water conservation. The ride to the park is a slow road through an old residential section of town with no shopping. I found that inconvenient. The view is long, mostly of adjacent hills with residential neighborhoods. There is some noise from air traffic into San Diego International Airport but the planes are high enough that it is a minor intrusion. As other reviewers mention there are a lot of ants. Knowing that I brought with me diatomaceous earth and ant poison, which I refreshed every day. That managed to keep the ants at bay. Good AT&T cell service. The reason I won't camp here again is that it takes too long to go anywhere convenient. If you're there recreationally, for the weekend, that might not be a problem.

Brandon Krejckant

07/20/2024

Sweetwater review This was our first time staying at Sweetwater RV Park and this review might get lengthy, strap in. We stayed for 7 nights for a conference in July in our 43 foot toy hauler. We’re on the fence of staying here again and I’ll run you through our pros and cons. Mind you, this is our experience, our opinions, and yours may differ. Pros: - All the employees/workers were super friendly and nice, except for one (we’ll discuss him later). - They rake the sites after each person checks out of their stay. - They do have pet stations around the park. - It’s cheap. $35 a night for full hook ups in San Diego. - Weather, it’s San Diego. Highest we saw in July was 84. - It’s out of downtown and in the hills. - They have a decent hiking/biking trail. - Bathrooms were always maintained and cleaned. - Splash pad and playground were clean and kept. - Picnic tables were in great condition. - I love planes, the campground is directly over the flight path for San Diego airport. Cons: - “Supervisor Ranger James” is a (insert not nice word) who likes to fluff his feathers. The park doesn’t allow golf carts, which is dumb in itself. But ranger James shines the flash light in my wife’s face and demands her return to her site and asks what site she’s in. There’s dozens of kids going WELL over the speed limit on E bikes and E scooters all week, and they’re fine. But my golf cart which only does 10mph (the posted speed limit), ranger James acts like we just committed murder. He never explains anything to us, refused to talk to us, just wanted to fluff his feathers. I go talk to all the other staff members throughout the week, ALL of them say “yeah we allow golf carts, i don’t see why not”. You all need to get on the same page. We aren’t harming anyone in our golf cart, heck we mostly need it to take the trash the half a mile away to the dumpsters. You need to allow golf carts in your park, they don’t harm anything. The workers all drive around polaris ranger gas UTV’s…… so is my Can Am allowed since it’s registered? He drives by sites, shines his flashlight into people’s sites, makes people move their truck a foot over, he’s a prick in charge and the power is in his head. Go after the ACTUAL problems like the homeless walking through the park. Power trip Officer Doofey over here. He does all this at night, never during sunlight. - Instead of ranger James being overly concerned with my golf cart, maybe he should address the trash issue in the park. My mom almost hurt herself on your broken trash enclosure. (See photos). These enclosures are massive steel structures designed to keep animals out. Well, the bottom hinge welds were broke clean off. How are we supposed to open this gate when all your other dumpsters are over flowing. (See photos). - Again, ranger James needing to address the trash issue, the dumpsters often are over flowing and trash just piled up (see photos). - Ants. LOTS of them. Ants every night in everything we have. - Dry brush and overgrown bushes everywhere. Fires are allowed but most people don’t understand how to safely have a fire especially with all this dry brush on the sites. - The campground is hilly and tight. My tail swing hit the wooden fence getting into my spot. I couldn’t be more inside because then i would have taken out their light that didn’t work. A lot of the drive entrances are STEEP and most trailers will drag. - Check in takes a while and a long line occurs. They need pictures of license plates on everything, driver’s license, etc. This isn’t a huge con because it maintains who is supposed to be here but it takes forever when there’s a massive line. - Once the rangers leave for the day, there is no gate or security to stop any randoms from driving in. I don’t think having a locked gate after 5pm is the solution, but a gate with a combo lock that rotates weekly would solve this. Multiple county parks do it. If you’re still with me, thank you for reading all my thoughts and opinions. I hope your experience is good, but we probably won’t stay here again which means nothing.

Fabian Rosadi

06/11/2024

Glamping at this campsite was a blast. From firewood to 50A plug for charging your EV is available on every camp lot. Beautiful hiking view. Will be returning again for sure.

Honey

07/30/2024

Local gem with clean restrooms and a splash pad for the kids. $3 for an all day wristband and supervising adults are free. Free parking for regular visitors. Not sure about the RV/ camping areas. We will definitely go back since this was our first time there.