Three nights at Buckhorn
A Forest Service site we'd written off for years because the photos online looked grim. They were wrong. The site is grim if you're a sedan, gentle if you're a trailer.
Buckhorn sits at 7,200 feet in the Sacramento Mountains. We avoided it for two seasons because the photos showed a parking-lot loop with no privacy. Photos lie.
The access road is rough. Three miles of forest service two-track that will rearrange anything in your basement compartments. Drive it once and you'll know.
No water. Pack in everything. The closest spigot is at the ranger station thirteen miles down.
Eight sites, all spaced fifty yards apart. Aspens that are old enough to remember the last fire. Cell signal on Verizon, none on AT&T.
Free. Fourteen-day max. Pack-in pack-out trash. The kind of place we'd rather more people know about — except we wouldn't.
From the campfire.
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