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Camping within Carrizo Plain National Monument is available at two primitive campgrounds – KCL Campground and Selby Campground. These two sites differ markedly. KCL is located in the southern part of the monument, west and very close to Soda Lake Road. Access from the main road is easy, and the camping area is generally bounded by a wooden fence.
The lake is located on the southwest side of the northern Carrizo Plain, 103 km (64 mi) east of San Luis Obispo. It can be reached by Soda Lake Road, which runs northwest–southeast between State Route 166 and State Route 58 .
A dusting of snow from this week’s storm turned the Temblor and Caliente mountain ranges white on Wednesday at the Carrizo Plain National Monument in eastern San Luis Obispo County.
Painted Rock is a smooth horseshoe-shaped marine sandstone rock formation with pictograph rock art about 250 feet across and 45 feet tall near Soda Lake within the Carrizo Plain National Monument [1] on the southwest side of the northern Carrizo Plain, west of Bakersfield and about 70 miles (110 km) east of San Luis Obispo and 45 miles (72 km) west of Taft, in California, United States.
Doug Garland shot this picture of wildflowers at Carrizo Plain National Monument in 2023. If you’re in an area that permits dogs , State Parks says, keep them on a leash and away from flower fields.
And while it does highlight the better-known sites like Anza-Borrego and the Carrizo Plain National Monument when they are in bloom, it also showcases trails just minutes from downtown Los Angeles ...
The valley is very nearly flat, bordered to the west by mountains (part of the Los Padres National Forest) and to the east by a major fault, the San Andreas Fault (part of the Temblor Range). Immediately south of California Valley is Soda Lake, which is part of the Carrizo Plain National Monument.
The San Andreas Fault Zone runs parallel to the range at the base of its western slope, on the eastern side of the Carrizo Plain, while the Antelope Plain, location of the enormous Midway Sunset, South Belridge, and Cymric oil fields, lies to the northeast. Peaks within the Temblor Range average about 3,500 ft (1,100 m) above sea level. [2]