Giant Rock | Wild Camping

United States

Details

Verified:
3 months ago
Altitude:
825.0 masl
Website:
None

Amenities

Electricity:
No
Wifi:
No
Kitchen:
No
Restaurant:
No
Showers:
No
Water:
No
Toilets:
No
Big Rig Friendly:
Yes
Tent Friendly:
Yes
Pet Friendly:
Yes

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Famous boulder, Giant Rock, supposedly the largest free-standing boulder on the planet. More than a few spots available to camp at (use ones with existing fire rings please) with expansive views of the valley floor back towards Landers. Backed by a mountain of piled boulders the area has some protection from desert winds. Pretty quiet during weeknights, a bit less quiet on weekends. Road into the area is dirt/sand (not too deep) but with long stretches of rolling terrain close together so you have to go slow or you WILL break things. Probably best for short(er) wheelbase vehicles. We got a pretty good 4G signal on AT&T here. I had good Verizon LTE - go slow avoid if raining!

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stayed the night in my sedan. as others had said, 2wd is okay in dry weather as long as to take it slow and focus on driving. the rock is cool too I guess

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Pretty cool big rock! Lots of room to camp. The road is really sandy and bumpy but my 2wd Sprinter with good tires made it fine. I just went slow. Lots of old fire scars and nails, probably from pallets. 2 bars of Verizon 5G. I just stopped by to see it, but I’d camp here. The area is really popular for off highway vehicles. Lots of trails to ride.

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Great for OHV-enthusiasts. They camp in bigger groups along the road and drive up and down the sandy dirt road with high speed and lots of noise until about 10 pm. I was here in holiday season between X-Mas and New Year. It‘s probably the same on weekends.It‘s ok for the night, but the effort of getting in and out is not really worth it.I would recommend to look for alternative places - at least on holidays and weekends.

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Easy Isolated Jumbo Alien Rocks w Alien Dog & Fairy Gf

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Nice big open space and definitely a party spot. Big groups camping, SO MANY ATVs. Not the spot if you’re looking for peace and quiet. But probs fun if you’re ready to party.

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Plenty of space. One RV at the beginning of the road, then a party bus (Monday night??). Still enough space to get out of others way, we felt like we were the only ones there.

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Verizon LTE signal south of the rock, but nothing north of it.

Interesting rock, but the area is truly disgustingly trashed.

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Expansive, gorgeous, open land. Seems to be not very secret though, decent amount of activity.

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Giant rock is awesome, the people who visit to spray paint the rock and surrounding rocks are not. Things to know, even though the desert is huge the RZRs and side by sides will undoubtedly choose to romp around near your camp late at night and no where else. Some people think it’s fun to scatter nails everywhere, and there are thousands at the designated camps near giant rock. Besides no one truly respecting the land here, it is beautiful, but you have to get through the glass, nails, bottle tops, burnt to the ground cars, and idiots painting their political preference on places sacred to the native peoples to see it.

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Didn’t stay the night but definitely a cool place to check out. It gets windy out here.

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Beautiful, quiet, love it. Good ATT signal. Easy drive in.

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Giant Rock itself is cool and the spot seems nice but in my short 20 minutes in that spot there was a continuous stream of people so I decided to venture out in the more desert area nearby.

https://kuula.co/post/7vM1J here was my campsite - -got a little windy but the stars were wonderful and the wind was a warm wind.

Great Verizon Service where I was

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The landscape is incredible, after a long drive on sandy/dusty roads. They have a lot of waves & mini hills but if you go slow & have decent clearance you’ll be fine. BUT I got there about 6pm & it was crowded with loud red necks there to party on a Sunday night. Seems to be a party spot for locals, lots of graffiti on the rocks & they were riding dirt bikes until 1am. Besides being loud they were harmless.

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Big area out of Landers along Giant Rock Road 1 mile south of Giant Roack with a nice view over the desert. Quiet. Dirtroad is fine. At Giant Rock is a lot of graffity and broken glass, our campsite was quite clean.

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It was perfect spot on the road out of los angeles to reconnect and take in perspective.

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Nice desert place with plenty of spots to get away from everyone and tuck up against the rocks to escape the wind. No cell service, some trash, lots of glass and nails and bullet casings as well as graffiti. Bur once you get past all of that the rocks, solitude the dark skies are fantastic!

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Famous boulder, Giant Rock, supposedly the largest free-standing boulder on the planet. More than a few spots available to camp at (use ones with existing fire rings please) with expansive views of the valley floor back towards Landers. Backed by a mountain of piled boulders the area has some protection from desert winds. Pretty quiet during weeknights, a bit less quiet on weekends. Road into the area is dirt/sand (not too deep) but with long stretches of rolling terrain close together so you have to go slow or you WILL break things. Probably best for short(er) wheelbase vehicles. We got a pretty good 4G signal on AT&T here.

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