Black Rock Campground

Loved this campground. You're literally camped WITHIN the Joshua Trees which is great. There are also flush toilets and easy access to trails. Also really enjoyed the fact that there is water access and dump station. I went in January after it snowed which made the landscape that much more beautiful. Highly recommend.

Clean, quiet, rangers are friendly, 15 minutes from town.

This campsite has flush toilets and water unlike the other camp sites inside the park. Sites are spacious and ours was level which made it very easy to park our camper van. It's a 20 drive to the main Joshua Tree entrance. It's a beautiful place with interesting terrain and dessert flora. We enjoyed it a lot.

The roads, however, are in pretty bad shape which might be a problem for larger rigs.

Loved this campground. You're literally camped WITHIN the Joshua Trees which is great. There are also flush toilets and easy access to trails. Also really enjoyed the fact that there is water access and dump station. I went in January after it snowed which made the landscape that much more beautiful. Highly recommend.

Clean, quiet, rangers are friendly, 15 minutes from town.

We enjoyed a great three nights tent camping at Black Rock in January. The staff at the Nature Center were very knowledgeable, helpful, and pleasant. We greatly enjoyed learning some tips (including making sure to download the NPS app and all of the Joshua Tree assets before heading into the interior of the park). Black Rock's water was accessible ,and the restrooms got the job done. The campground also is very accessible to some cool day hikes, such as Westside Loop and High View, and has LOTS of birds.

We enjoyed a great three nights tent camping at Black Rock in January. The staff at the Nature Center were very knowledgeable, helpful, and pleasant. We greatly enjoyed learning some tips (including making sure to download the NPS app and all of the Joshua Tree assets before heading into the interior of the park). Black Rock's water was accessible ,and the restrooms got the job done. The campground also is very accessible to some cool day hikes, such as Westside Loop and High View, and has LOTS of birds.

Enjoyed the campsite and it's amenities. There were a couple great hikes up the mountains right from the campsite. One negative aspect that we experienced was the camp host being unfriendly to our kids and scolding them and us, the parents, for sitting on a Joshua Tree. He threatened us with a hefty fine and eventually called the park ranger to come out in hopes that he would slap us with a fine. When the park ranger came out he was much more level headed and took it as a teaching moment for the kids, which should have been the camp hosts approach from the beginning. We saw much more harmful things being done to the Joshua Trees at other campsites, like hanging hammocks, that the camp host didn't address. While the sites here had more room than campsites at Jumbo Rocks, being surrounded by Joshua Trees and being scolded when a frisbee or ball hit them, we might look to say at another locations next time.

Enjoyed the campsite and it's amenities. There were a couple great hikes up the mountains right from the campsite. One negative aspect that we experienced was the camp host being unfriendly to our kids and scolding them and us, the parents, for sitting on a Joshua Tree. He threatened us with a hefty fine and eventually called the park ranger to come out in hopes that he would slap us with a fine. When the park ranger came out he was much more level headed and took it as a teaching moment for the kids, which should have been the camp hosts approach from the beginning. We saw much more harmful things being done to the Joshua Trees at other campsites, like hanging hammocks, that the camp host didn't address. While the sites here had more room than campsites at Jumbo Rocks, being surrounded by Joshua Trees and being scolded when a frisbee or ball hit them, we might look to say at another locations next time.

We love this campground, because it has all the beautiful Joshua Trees and two epic hikes (Warren & Eureka Peaks) right off the campground. Plus, it's quiet, has flush toilets, and is close to town. Drawbacks are that it doesn't have the big Joshua Tree rocks, and it's outside the park. But these are minor inconveniences that are far outweighed by its benefits.