San Benito Thousand Trails

We are currently camped at the San Benito Thousand Trails Preserve in Paicines, California.  It's about 25 miles south of Hollister, CA on Highway 25.

It's a big campground with decent sites, some with huge trees, two swimming pools (family & adult), hot tub, family and adult lodges, putt-putt course and more.  A creek runs through the campground but, unfortunately, it's dry this year like so many in California.

Our campsite #373

This is our campsite.  As you can see, we are situated under a huge sycamore tree (I think that's what it is).  It provides great shade on hot afternoons!

One of the reasons we like this park is the wildlife.  There are resident deer, rabbits, lots of birds and even a bobcat! 

This is from our visit in 2008

We've had a couple of glimpses of the bobcat, but no good pictures yet.  A few years ago, we were camped here and had the privilege of watching two Great Horned owlets and their mama.


Great Horned Owlet

 

I was reminded as I was selecting these photos, there used to be a pea-hen that wandered the campground.  I'll have to asked what happened to it.

 

We had planned to stay here 3 weeks but due to a slide-out problem, we will be here an additional week.  We are waiting on parts to come in and then a repair appointment.  When that happens we will head to Fresno for the repair instead of moving on down to the Santa Barbara area.  If the repair happens in a timely manor, we will still be able to head for Soledad Canyon Thousand Trails (north of L.A.) in time for me to attend the annual Close To My Heart convention (held at Disneyland this year).  If not, I will have to find a way from Fresno.  Part of the RV lifestyle is to remain flexible!

Glenn enjoying his outside office with the cats in their "playpen"

 

On the way in and out of the campground, there is a large vegetable farm.  We enjoy watching the process of getting the produce from farm to table.  We've seen broccoli being picked, tilling, the irrigation pipes being laid and planting.  We're always trying to guess what's growing! (We think it should be a law to have signs telling us which crop it is!)  Right now, we've determined there are several fields of carrots.  It's a little hard to tell from the car as you drive by!  Another benefit is it's green (due to irrigation)!  Everything else is brown, brown, brown!

 

Just down Highway 25 is Pinnacles National Park.  I will post about that later.

 

Thanks for stopping by!