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Date: 2006-08-14 12:42:00.0
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Number of People Encountered: 50+ ppl
Recommendation: Neutral
Camped at Oak Flat on Aug 12-13 2006. When I first arrived at the campground there were 3 other groups of campers. One camper on the far west end was camping in the nude, and continued to remain that way both days I was there! At around 9:00 p.m. a line of cars and and pickup trucks rolled in, with stereo equipment blasting. They took a campsite just n/w of me and made a GIANT bonfire. Their music was earsplitting loud, and they yelled, screamed, and did horseplay around the fire. I did notice they appeared to be high school aged young adults, and all of them appered to be drinking alcohol and smoking what looked like illegal substances. Their "party" seemed to top out at about 40-50 people. While that was going on the campsite on the south of me, was occupied by another group of high school aged teens, but they just sat around a fire and drank from a plethora of different kinds of bottles. They were much quieter and even picked up their trash when they left, at about 12 midnight. The big group of teens left about 2 a.m. and oh! what a mess they left! The next morning was nice. Very quiet, and lots of blue birds to watch. I found that behind the Boyscout camp is a trail that was fun to hike, although it is quite steep in some places, bring lots of water if you hike it. The campsite seems to have only 1 latrine, with 1 men's and 1 womens restroom. The whole camp uses this one "outhouse" so unless you want to hear the door slam shut all day and night I would suggest camping far from the outhouse. The conditions in the outhouse were appaling and I chose not to use the facility at all. The campsite is run on the Adventure Pass system and to camp (or even park) you need an adventure pass. I did not have mine and inquired about one at the oak flat fire station, where I was told not to worry about having one as they are never checked anyway, and I would not encounter any fines or problems if I was asked to show the pass. I talked to one camper (the naked fella) and he sais he camps there all the time and has never purchased an adventure pass and did not know they even existed. He sais he had been camping there currently for about 30 days, and had not once been bothered about it! Although the evening was was very noisy with all the teens partying I still enjoyed the view of the night sky. The sky was quite clear, and the milky way was very visable. I counted 8 shooting stars in about 15 minutes of viewing! The most enjoyable time was in the morning when it was very quiet in the camp area. You can hear the traffic on the 5 freeway but its a very low hum sound that you get used to and dont realy notice that much.
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Date: 2002-04-08 16:46:00.0
Difficulty: Easy
Number of People Encountered: 0-10 ppl
Recommendation: Highly
We camped the weekend of April 6. The turnoff comes pretty fast after turning onto Templin. The first night we were the only campers and the second night there was one other camper on the other side of the campground. Very beautiful grounds and kept up quite well. No camp hosts. A couple of houses across from the campground. It was very quiet and alot of trails to hike. There are oak trees everywhere, but I'm not sure if they are dead or will sprout leaves in the Spring. Since this is so close to home I think we will be coming here often. It's a nice getaway.
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Angeles National Forest - The Angeles National Forest encompasses much of the San Gabriel Mountain on the northern edge of the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It serves as the backyard playground for many Los Angeles residents.
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