Cottonwood Campground (CA)

Very friendly and helpful campground hosts! Made me feel very welcome. Many thanks.

My not five is because of usual campground problems--campfire smoke, noisy neighbors.

Beautiful spot.

This is the best campground inside Joshua tree NP.
It's conveniently tucked away from all the busy attractions on the upper side of the park.
Bunch of flowers, bees, hummingbirds and even coyotes howling at night.
Loved it .

This is the best campground inside Joshua tree NP.
It's conveniently tucked away from all the busy attractions on the upper side of the park.
Bunch of flowers, bees, hummingbirds and even coyotes howling at night.
Loved it .

The facility has everything a camper needs but there are some limitations. I do not recommend the pull through sites because they have a slight slope and are not comfortably wide if you have a slide out on the drivers side.

Best time to be here is on the weekdays. Weekends the campground is full of young groups who come to party, BUT they do turn it off by 10 pm. I am happy to see kids out enjoying camping and nature, but weekends are much louder and smokefilled than the weekdays. Beautiful location, hikes to Mastodon peak and Palm Oasis are good day walks. It is very far from anything else in the park, but we love it that way.

The facility has everything a camper needs but there are some limitations. I do not recommend the pull through sites because they have a slight slope and are not comfortably wide if you have a slide out on the drivers side.

Best time to be here is on the weekdays. Weekends the campground is full of young groups who come to party, BUT they do turn it off by 10 pm. I am happy to see kids out enjoying camping and nature, but weekends are much louder and smokefilled than the weekdays. Beautiful location, hikes to Mastodon peak and Palm Oasis are good day walks. It is very far from anything else in the park, but we love it that way.

Always great to visit this spot! It’s always nice and quiet and the stars are always quite the site! The coyotes never fail to wake me up at least once per visit.

Quiet, nice view at the campground, but the "pull thru" site was just a wide spot in the narrow camp road. We only put our slide out part way, same as others, and pulled it in at night. 27' 5th wheel. Also learned that in the main part of the park, the parking lots have very limited, if any, parking spots to accomodate trailer+tow vehicle. But, there's no where to drop the trailer for the day while you explore the park. So, on the day you are checking out, you can't really explore the park for the rest of the day.

The reservation system for this park was hard to use. When I booked my spot 5 months before the trip I was unable to get a spot in loop A which was my preferred loop because the loop was supposedly closed for a redo of the electrical hook ups. I had to book a spot in one of the other loops but when I arrived at the park I found that A loop was in full use. Such a disappointment!!