Mt. Figueroa Campground
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:35 UTC
- A night
- $30When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 34In the agency’s record
- Season
- January 1 – December 31Open January 1 through December 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 16 notices
In the agency’s own words
Experience life elevated when you enjoy vistas of wildflowers, star gazing, and summer campouts atop Figueroa Mountain. Lose yourself in a grove of beautiful red manzanita, oaks and pines as Figueroa Campground lifts your spirits and your senses. Take a leisurely walk up the mountain ridge to watch a beautiful sunset or walk the trail around the campground to see the wildlife and all of nature's beauty. During the spring season, the area features an amazing wildflower display. This easily accessed pedestal in the pines is also very popular with hunters during the annual deer season. Keep reading
Recreation
Trails, horseback riding, off road vehicle use, mountain biking, fishing, camping, backpacking, seasonal hunting, shooting and photography are all popular recreational uses on Figueroa Mountain. Figueroa Campground serves as a centralized location to various trailheads, including the Davy Brown/Fir Canyon and Ballard Trails. On Figueroa Lookout Road, you will also find amazing views of rolling hills and the shimmering Pacific Ocean in the distance.
Facilities
Figueroa Campground has 33 campsites and each site has fire rings, pedestal barbeques and a picnic table. Hard packed soil makes several of the sites accessible to the three, double vault, wheelchair accessible bathrooms. Figueroa Campground can accommodate RVs up to 25 ft. long; hook-ups are not available. Three dumpsters are located on Figueroa Mountain Road for convenient trash disposal. There is no drinking water at this site; please bring your own water.
Natural Features
Figueroa Campground is surrounded and shaded by red manzanita and a variety of oak and pine trees. During spring, Figueroa Campground is an ideal place to camp while you enjoy the magnificent wildflower displays that Figueroa Mountain has to offer. This is also the home of numerous spring migrating birds, such as the exquisite western tanager, which breeds and raises its young on Figueroa Mountain until August.
Nearby Attractions
A few miles away, Davy Brown Campground is the starting point for several trails, including the spectacular Davy Brown/Fir Canyon Trail. Two miles further are the Lower Manzana and Upper Manzana trailheads, entry points to the majestic San Rafael Wilderness. Los Olivios, Santa Ynez, Solvang and Buelton are within an hour's drive.
What the agency tells you
In order to contact our offices, please use the email: customerservice@pmcparks.com or view our website: CampOne.Com for answers to frequently asked questions.
Camping fee includes 1 vehicle and 1 tent, trailer or RV. $10 fee for each extra vehicle.
No drinking water is available.
Everything else this campground posts · 13
No public showers in the region.
Fireworks are prohibited at all times.
The nearest stores and gas are a 15 minute drive down the mountain to Los Olivios along Hwy. 154.
No cell service at the campground.
Avoid hiking alone. Tell someone where you plan to go and then stick to your plans.
Avoid unnecessary risk-help for emergencies is miles away.
Carry a first aid kit and other safety gear with you when hiking.
Nights are often cold, even during the summer months; jackets and sweaters are recommended.
Bring gnat/mosquito repellent during spring/summer/fall
2-night minimum stay on weekends
3-night minimum stay on holidays
Click here for more information on Los Padres National Forest.
Figueroa Campground is a 'Campfire Use Site.' Campfires are normally permitted year around without a California Campfire Use Permit. Under some conditions, wood fires and barbecues may be prohibited in all areas of the national forest. Fires at the campground are only permitted in fire rings provided by the Forest Service.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 34
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…Road for convenient trash disposal. There is no drinking water at this site; please bring your own water. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Coast
- Biking
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 8.3 km away
- No change
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:35 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
OpenBookedClosed
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
“$10 fee for each extra vehicle.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Mt. Figueroa Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Davy Brown CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 2.5 mi · 13 sites
- Nira CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 3.7 mi · 12 sites
- Bates Canyon CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 16 mi
- Fremont CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 16 mi · 15 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 15:35 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
34 sites
All 34 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 34 of the 34 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 01 | type not stated | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 02 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 03 | type not stated | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 04 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 05 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 06 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 07 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 08 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 09 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 10 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 11 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 12 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 13 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 14 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 15 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 16 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 17 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 18 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 19 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 20 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 21 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 1 | 22 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 23 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 24 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 25 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 26 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 27 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 28 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 29 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 30 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 31 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 32 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 33 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
| Loop 2 | 34 | standard nonelectric | $30 |
25 of 34 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Davy Brown CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 2.5 mi
Nira CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 3.7 miBates Canyon CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 16 mi
Fremont CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 16 mi
Paradise CampgroundLos Padres National Forest · 17 mi
Los PrietosLos Padres National Forest · 17 miFrom Santa Barbara, travel to Los Olivos via Hwy. 154 or take Hwy. 101 to Hwy. 154. Turn onto Figueroa Mountain Road, which crosses Hwy. 154, and becomes Grand Avenue in Los Olivos. Follow Figueroa Mountain Road about 10 miles to the top of the mountain, at which point continue until you see the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Los Olivos, CA
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Mt. Figueroa Campground is in California’s 24th congressional district. Its representative, Salud Carbajal (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →