Front Country Ranger District
Learn about camping and boondocking in Front Country Ranger District of San Bernardino National Forest
Pine Camp Yellow Post Site
This is a single primitive campsite identified by a yellow post and a fire ring. It's officially marked at Yellow Post Site #14 on forest service maps. It's located up along a mountain ridge that parallels the Pacific Coast Trail. A high clearance, 4WD vehicle is required to drive up here.
Pit Camp Yellow Post Site
This is a single campsite marked by a yellow post. It's officially designated on forest service maps at Yellow Post Site #15. It's a primitive campsite with nothing more than a fire ring. It's also located high up on a mountain ridge and requires a high clearance 4WD vehicle to get up there.
Gobbler’s Knob Yellow Post Site
Officially marked at Yellow Post Site #16 on USFS Maps, this is a single campsite identified by a yellow post. It comes with a fire ring, and that's about it. It's sits up high on a mountain ridge and intersects with the Pacific Coast Trail. You definitely need a high clearance 4WD to get up here.
Alpine Canyon Yellow Post Site
Officially marked as Yellow Post Site #12, this is a single primitive campsites identified by a yellow post located about 8 miles up Lytle Creek from the town of Lytle Creek. This is the furthest-west of the Yellow Post Sites along Lytle Creek. There is a fire ring here and that's about it.
Paiute Yellow Post Campsites
These are a series of two yellow post campsites located along North Fork Lytle Creek along the north side of Paiute Road. High clearance 4WD vehicles are highly recommended to reach these sites due to soft sand and rocky conditions. Site #12 is heavily shaded, while Site #11 is partially shaded.
Fall Camp Yellow Post Site
Fall Camp, also known as "Yellow Post Site #10", is located along North Fork Lytle Creek, or Paiute Road. It's well-shaded site and you can easily miss it if you're not watching carefully. 4WD with high clearance is highly recommended due to soft sand and rocky conditions.
Stockton Flats Yellow Post Campsites
This is a series of seven (7) campsites, each marked by a yellow post, and numbered 3 through 9. Each site comes with a fire ring and that's about it. Sites 3 through 8 are all bunched together along a loop in the road, while site 9, also dubbed "Big Horn Camp" is about another 1,000 feet down the road.
Lone Camp, Lytle Creek, CA
This is a single "yellow post" campsite located along the creek side of Lytle Creek Road lies about 500 further up the road from Cold Camp. The campsite is long enough for full sized motorhomes and fifth-wheel trailers to get into, and is much easier to back into based on the way it is angled from the road.
Cold Camp, Lytle Creek, CA
This is a single "yellow post" campsite located along the north side of Lytle Creek Road right at the fork with Cold Water Canyon. The campsite is long enough for full sized motorhomes and fifth-wheel trailers to get into, albeit with some skill backing into the 90-degree turn from the road.