Glamping & Camping in Santa Margarita, California

Santa Margarita, California has 7 outdoor stays in our index right now, spanning RV sites, primitive sites, glamping lodges, tent platforms, and cabins. The rated stays average 4.8★ across 1,312 guest reviews. Twisselman Ranch currently leads on rating — a solid first look.

What Santa Margarita guests reward most in their reviews: location, the hosts, and value for money. It's a useful lens — the properties that nail these tend to be the ones people rebook.

On the ground, the Santa Margarita mix skews toward RV sites (2 spots), with primitive sites, glamping lodges, and tent platforms filling out the rest. That's worth knowing before you search: the format shapes the trip more than the town does — a dome is a stargazing stay, a cabin is a basecamp, an RV site is a road-trip anchor. Pick the format first, then the property.

Set in the West Coast, Santa Margarita works as a base for big sur coastal camping, sierra backpacking, and joshua tree bouldering. Plan around the season: Year-round depending on elevation — coastal summer, Sierra fall, desert winter. California's national parks (Yosemite, Sequoia, and Kings Canyon) make good day-trip anchors from here. Below you can filter by stay type or jump to a specific format — every listing links straight to the operator's own site, never a middleman, so the prices and dates you see are the real ones.