Owl Canyon Campground
Free day use.
Camping Fee is $6.
You can find some free camping areas
in the vicinity, mostly you are surrounded
by BLM land, but for six dollars, Owl Canyon
Campground is worth it. Picnic tables, metal
firerings, BBQ's, toilets, and water. There are
also some shade ramadas.
There are some interesting desert views.
Rainbow Basin Scenic Drive with crazy
landscapes from another planet, it is hard
to absorb.
Rainbow Basin Scenic Drive
Rainbow Basin Scenic Drive
Rainbow Basin Scenic Drive
DIRECTIONS:
From downtown Barstow
Take Main Street to 1st Street.
Take 1st Street, you will cross over an old steel bridge.
Turn left on Irwin Road.
After a couple miles you will see the sign for Rainbow Basin.
Turn left on Fossil Bed Road. Continue a couple more miles
and you will see the sign for Owl Canyon Campground and
Rainbow Basin Scenic Drive.
Desert tortoises are protected by law.
Do not remove, handle or disturb them.
Camped here February 8, 2006
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