Campsite #28 at Ryan Campground, Joshua Tree National Park, CA

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Campsite #28

8 reviews
Drive-In 6 people
26 ft Back-In
2 no signal
28
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Campsite #28 Features: Drive-In access, Back-In parking, 26ft driveway, Fire ring w/ Grill, Picnic Table, RV Site, Tent Site, Trailer Site, Pets Allowed

Campsite Reviews (8)

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@richarda847269 · Camped on Feb 9, 2025 at Campsite #28
Nice central location in the Park. Sites are a good size and are close to large rock formations. There is a nice short hike from the campground to the old Ryan Ranch.
@RebeccaL294673 · Camped on Nov 18, 2024 at Campsite #28
Great campground. Clean toilets. Well-spaces sites.
@NilsK50FBCE051 · Camped on Sep 24, 2024 at Campsite #28
An absolutely beautiful campground in the middle of the dessert. The campsites are scattered between boulders that provide some shade and fun scrambling opportunities. The change of blazing dessert heat to slowly cooling down end of day brings my favorite change in the dessert: The sky slowly transitioning from bright to dark blue, before pastel colors start emerging. If you are lucky purple and pink make a showing before bright orange lingers for at least an hour in the far distance. Finally, gray emerges from the east before black makes it's first appearance. Venus, the evening star, is usually the first dot of light in the sky. Other stars shyly join in and when the last traces of orange disappear the milky way often makes an appearance. For me, witnessing this process is one of the best spectacles that nature has to offer for us. It is well worth it to get up in the pitch black on the next morning to witness the disappearance of each of our actors in turn in reverse order while hiking up Ryan Mountain.
@damians99338DA · Camped on Aug 11, 2024 at Campsite #28
Great camp site
@Gabrielle29194 · Camped on May 17, 2024 at Campsite #28
The campground was awesome this site got pounded by wind, though, and had no good wind shelter. Our tent was folding in on itself and we didnt get any sleep. Just a heads up if youre camping during a windy time! Everything else was absolutely perfect!
@LindyW0FCEEFC9 · Camped on Mar 11, 2024 at Campsite #28
great campsite with Headstone rock in view. Bathrooms clean, table large. fire ring superb!!keep up the great work!
@KalieN4DB457C8 · Camped on Jul 29, 2023 at Campsite #28
The bathrooms were yucky. We saw several critters very quickly while there, and decided to hole up for the night but our campground neighbors were walking around with flashlights for a few hours looking for said critters, which seems dangerous. Overall the park is beautiful and lovely but the bathrooms could use some work. Little scary that the doors to the bathroom are left open when you have so many creepy crawlers.
@Catherine19355 · Camped on Mar 28, 2023 at Campsite #28
Camp host was friendly and conscientious. Campsite was clean.

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