33 sites · Lodging, RVs, Tents · Gaviota, CAWhen you camp with us it’s a full experience including a tour
Our base site rental fee is $75 for the first person which includes the propane tank and propane fire pit rental.
We charge an additional $50 per person after the base site fee.
Children under 3 to 13 are $10 (infants/crawlers/new walkers are FREE).
We love sharing our property with friends, family, HipCampers and dogs.
Our property consists of:
43 rugged/hilly/mountainous acre with numerous flat plateaus and fantastic views.
Each plateau has several great spots to car/van/truck camp, pitch a tent or park small trailers and small RVs.
Larger RVs/Trailers fit on the front side of our property.
SUMMER/FALL:
Expect the landscape and views to be golden brown (not green and lush like in a lot of the photos posted which were taken this past winter/spring.)
Thank you for your interest in camping with us! We look forward to your potential booking request.
We have been doing this for a while now and we absolutely love it. We’ve learned a lot along the way so the following information, I know it’s a lot of info, please read in its entirety so that you get the most out of your stay with us.
We chose to offer sites on a PER PERSON PRICING bases rather than a flat rate for each site. This way solo campers have affordable pricing and access to our camp.
When you camp with us it’s a full experience including a tour (upon availability 99% of the time), welcome drink and access to our common area which offers BBQ, wash sink, cold dunk tubs and shady lounge area under our pepper trees (see photos.)
That said… Our base site rental fee is $75 for the first person which includes the propane tank and propane fire pit rental.
We charge an additional $50 per person after the base site fee.
Children under 15 are FREE.
Our property consists of 43 rugged/hilly/mountainous acres with numerous flat plateaus and fantastic views to pitch a tent or park small trailers and small RVs.
Larger RVs/Trailers fit on the front side of our property.
SUMMER/FALL: Expect the landscape and views to be golden brown (not green and lush like in a lot of the photos posted which were taken this past winter/spring.)
PICKING YOUR CAMPSITE: When we are not sold out we place campers at campsites on a first-come-first-serve basis upon arrival. If we are sold out we will pre-pick your campsite based on where we feel each of our campers will be happiest given their individual camp set up, i.e. Tent, Van, Trailer, RV, and size of the group.
All of our sites are spread out with plenty of space for social distancing.
DRY CAMPING: All of our sites are DRY camping (no water/electricity.) We provide a picnic table and one umbrella and a propane fire pit with a propane tank. Please bring additional shade structures if you think you’ll need more shade.
Our best sites, with little-to-no traffic noise, (and the best views) are on our back property. Best suited for tents, camper vans, trucks, and SMALL trailers or SMALL RVs. There is a semi-steep hill up to our upper property if you're towing a trailer you will need a powerful vehicle to make it up the hill.
Sites on our lower property by the common area are easily accessible with views up the hills/mountains but come with some highway noise. We imagine it sounds like waves crashing and call it the "steel river."
For your private camp area, please bring your own drinking water, water to wash dishes and if think you'll need: chairs, camp tables, umbrellas or shade structures, trash bags/cans (throw your trash in the dumpster out side our entry gate when you leave.
Plan on being fully self-sufficient. Otherwise, feel free to use the common area BBQ, Sink, tables and chairs at the barn until 10 pm.
MOST DOGS WELCOMED... WE PROHIBIT UN-neutered aggressive breed dogs.
DOGS ARE FREE TO RUN UNLEASHED ALL OVER OUR LAND. The front of our property is all. Fenced. The back property just has barbed wire.
ABOUT OUR DOGS: We have one female dog and three male dogs (one of the three is UN-NEUTERED) a 10-year-old yellow lab (Titan-Dan.) A 14-year-old American Dingo (Reno.) 5-year-old Great Pyrenees (Bandit.) And then there is Cannoli a 7-year-old female Great Pyrenees who adopted us we saw her come through the bushes from the neighbors property across the highway… She ran across the highway and jumped the medium and ran up to our gate, she hasn’t left since…
COMMON USE AREA: Inside and near the barn include tables, chairs, hammocks, wood fire pit, outdoor propane BBQ and stove, wash sink and outdoor mineral shower, and mineral cold plunge tubs.
FIRE SAFETY and PROPANE FIREPITS: We have “very safe” propane firepits and fire extinguishers at every site. Under the right conditions, we will light a real wood fire at the common area by the barn. Feel free to join us in the early evening until 10pm.
PORTA-POTTIES: We have porta-potties next to the Barn, the Garden, Running Dog Flats, and the Art Studio. They are pumped clean every Thursday and are generally very lightly used. If you don’t want to use the porta-potties we recommend/encourage you to bring your own camp toilet, bags, and absorbent.
WILDLIFE: Our dogs do a great job of fending off the resident bobcat and coyotes on the front portion of our property and by the barn, if they are barking in the night there's a reason. If you end up camping on the front portion of our property and think their barking will affect your sleep, bring earplugs ;-).
Drinking-WATER, Dish Washing Water and Shade: All of our sites are dry camping i.e. there is no potable water available. Please bring all your own drinking/dishwashing water. We have a picnic table and 1 umbrella at all the sites. Please bring additional shade i.e. easy up or other shade structures if you think you'll need it.
Cold Mineral Dunks and Hot Outdoor Mineral Shower: We have huge aluminum cowboy cold dunk tubs available at what we lovingly/jokingly refer to as our very own “Cactus Flower Beach,” which is not a real beach… It feels like a beach because we’ve decked it out with lounge chairs, a daybed cabana, 150K pounds of sand and tiki-hut umbrellas. It’s fun to hang out there when it’s hot under the shade of the pepper trees.
NOTE: The Outdoor Shower screening is a tad see-through. If you are shy, wear a bathing suit.
Please limit showers to 3-5 minutes max.
Mineral Water Definition: Water from a mineral spring or well (i.e. our well) that contains various minerals, such as salts and sulfur compounds.
TRASH: Please pack all your trash out to the large trash bin located at the entrance to our property. Please take your recycling with you.
ELECTRICITY and Wi-Fi: We have charging stations in the barn for your computers, phones, etc. Password: HowdyDoody (Accessible in and near the barn common area.)
COMMISSARY: We have farm fresh eggs and meats from the pork palace across the street, and other swag i.e Hats for sale in the barn.
FEED THE CHICKENS AND GOATS: Please feel free to feed the goats and chickens your vegetable scraps and or bring them a treat they love full heads of cabbage, lettuce, cantaloupe and watermelon.
CHILDREN: For safety, children must be always accompanied by an adult!
OUR RECOMMENDATIONS for THINGS TO DO WHILE YOU VISIT THE AREA:
WINE TASTING
We are in the heart of the wine country with a tasting room less than one mile away and/or a few short miles into the bst wine tasting rooms and wineries in Buellton, Solvang, Santa Ynez.
Google search some of our favorite: Babcock Winery, Brick Barn, Dierber-Starlane, Folded Hills winery (which is on mile south of us.)
BEACHES, HIKING and the brand new ZIP-LINE and ROPES Adventure Course!
15% off Zip-line and Ropes Adventure Course.
If your into adventure and not afraid of heights this is a must do while your in our area its a short 5 miles from our camp ground… (If you have a pet with you you can leave your pet in our kennel while you do this adventure.)
Google search High Line Adventure in Bulletin and use 15% off code: FREEDOGFARMS15
Book on line open: Thursday - Sunday
HIKES:
You can hike all over our property (stay within our boundaries i.e. fence lines) ,
1. Nojoqui Falls (1.5 miles south of our ranch)
2. Gaviota Wind Caves (6 miles south of our ranch)
BEACHES:
We are 5-6 minutes from the beach and Gaviota coast line.
1. Gaviota State Beach (6 miles south of our ranch)
2.Tajiguas Beach (15 miles south of our ranch)
3. Jalama Beach County Park (30-minute beautiful windy drive, but well worth it especially if you want to get one of the worlds best burgers at the campground store)
RESTAURANTS/DINING:
1. Industrial Eats, Buellton
2. Ramen Kotori, Solvang
3. La Tequila Mexican Restaurant, Buellton (NOTE: They don’t actually serve tequila but the food is GREAT!)
4. Ginos Pizza, Buellton (they will deliver to our gate)
6. Hitching Post, Buellton
7. Trattoria Grappolo, 2 locations: Santa Ynez and Solvang
8. HOOK’d Bar and Grill at Lake Cachuma (20 minutes to the lake)
FARM STANDS:
1. Folded Hills Winery and Farm Stand
(farm animals to visit as well)
(1 mile south of our ranch)
2. The Blueberry Farm (Seasonal Pick your own blueberries stand closes end of September-ish) (1 mile south of our ranch)
FUN for KIDS and ADULTS:
1. Ostrich Land USA, Buellton (Feed the Ostriches and Emus)
2. Mendenhall's Museum of Gasoline Pumps & Petroliana, Buelton
We look forward to hosting you.
Sincerely,
Sierra and Darin.
