Indian Oaks Trailer Ranch

We don’t live too far and it’s a great get away for the family. We camped with a tent but most people there have trailers and seem to live there. They have a small pond area and what is meant to look like a beach area but maybe it wasn’t much of a beach set up because we went in February. They had toilets but the showers weren’t at the time. I guess if you are looking for more of a back woods type of camping style then this is it for you. I gave it 3 stars because of the no showers but I will go back in the summer to camp again.

Was very disappointed by the grounds at this location. This could be such a great place to camp while wine tasting — but it needs a HUGE OVERHAUL. Don’t let the photos fool you. There are only 3 sites available for campers all others are permanent residents. This was one of our family members first camping experiences and this was not what we had hoped for for her. I guess you get what you pay for.

Went this past weekend for the big memorial celebration! We had such a blast and will be back next year! The bar was great and hanging out and meeting all the residents was great! My husband even got to watch the big title UFC fight he thought he was going to miss! We met a bunch of new friends! Christy and the rest of the staff were great anything we needed they took care of! The lake was great for fishing and paddle boating but I wouldn’t recommend swimming in it! You can if you want but I wouldn’t! We went to go wine tasting and the campground is about 3 miles away from all the action! All in all we had a GREAT trip and will definitely be back!!! Thanks for a wonderful Memorial Day weekend Indian oaks!!!

I’m soooooo glad I didn’t see all these negative reviews before we booked last weekend at Indian Oaks. We had such a wonderful time and EVERYONE we came into contact with were sooo friendly and welcoming. Please DON’T read these reviews and NOT go… This place was 30 minutes away from our home and we never knew!!! We loved this place so much we’re going again next weekend AND bringing friends with us. All you negative people… PLEASE don’t go back that way I will always have a spot when I go =)

Not really a campground, more like a trashy trailer park. Would not recommend taking your family camping there. Most of the sites were filled by permanent residents with lots of trash, old tires, dog runs etc.

This was our first time camping and only because Skinner was full. At first we were like «are we at the right place»? seems more like a trailer park but once we settled in — it wasn’t too bad. The kids enjoyed the lake — more like a pond. Really small. They fished and both caught 6 fish each — they loved it and that is what is important! The people were friendly and very welcoming. We will be coming back soon!

Great place to go camping! We have been going here for several years now and every time everyone has a blast. All together about 50 people family and friends stayed here in our most recent stay. The kids swam in the pond and even caught fish for the first time. The staff was very friendly and we were welcomed by the new manager who is a sweet heart. If you want to go camping with family and friends this is the place to go. The pond makes it perfect since its hot all you have to do is jump in to cool down.

We came here with our cub scout group to go fishing only. It was great. Almost all the kids caught multiple fish, many for the first time. My kids caught their first fish here a couple years ago. The drive out there is very pretty, and it’s a nice venue with many shaded areas. The lake is more like a pond, but it’s great for fishing. Worth the extra driving time to get there from San Diego, as your time will be well spent fishing and not just sitting waiting for fish to come. I also like the people who work there, who are quite generous and very friendly.

Let me start by saying that every place is going to have bad reviews for reasons that were important to the writer…
However, I have been camping at this place for several years, back when Diane was there, through Susan, not my personal favorite but nontheless nice to me and now Kristy, who by all encounters I have had with her on the phone, have been very nice and accommodating.
My family and I have never had a bad time at this campground. The residents have always been nice and don’t seem to mind the campers. I have met some very nice people at this place.
This place is a blast on a holiday weekend, they have a potluck that everybody gets to join in and DJ Bob is a fun addition. The lake is small and fun to relax in and the horsesboe pits are great. There is plenty of shade and places to sit and relax.
I totaly recommend this place, but don’t let me make up your mind for you, give it a shot and form your own opinion. Don’t let people that may have had their own issues with park detour you from stopping by. It is a nice drivd through the wineries and vineyards to get there. Enjoy life and take a chance, you won’t be disappointed.

This place is great for an RV. Did a weekend with my BFF and we had a blast! The residents were nice, the sunning area had good chairs and shade, and Kristy in the office was the best. Thanks!

When we moved I had an issue I had to address and the manager did not have the authority to handle it, so she referred me to the owner Mike (different from the maintenance and barkeep). When I called the owner, he told me he would do one thing and then he did not follow through. So when I called to talk to him about this, he ignored my initial 3 calls and then finally got back to me. Upon trying to talk to him, he told me to shut up and offended me in other ways along with his unprofessional attitude, disrespect, and just plain rude attitude. I could not believe it. Due to this situation, we will tell people and we will never be back. He could have handled this with um… professionalism, courtesy, respect, nice and correct behavior, but he chose to act the complete opposite way. Astonished!
If you have questions or comments or concerns: CALL MIKE AT 951−699−3550

We spent Memorial Day 2014 Weekend here. Great place for camping with family — I had a party of 6, with my wife, and 4 kids. Ages 2, 8, 13, 19.
I lucked out and called Susan at the front desk for reservations one week before arrival and was told the tent sites were all booked up. I asked her if she had a waiting list and she said; «No, but i can start one up and you can be the first one on it!» A few days later she called me to confirm she had one RV spot for me.
Thank goodness for Craigslist where i found a guy that delivered the Travel Trailer and set it up for me. Awesome deal too! Anyway, Indian oaks website really sold me on the place so i knew i had to give this place a try. First reaction to booking is excitement, and the after thoughts come after you read reviews on Unilocal.The Unilocal reviews don’t help this place out, if you read most of them you’ll see their either dated, mixed reviews and most are not nice ones. After I read the reviews i was a bit concerned our fun weekend might be jeopardized, but i didn’t want my family to feed off that vibe. I wanted them to have a great time without me introducing any of that negativity i had read about. I had already booked so i figured why not give it a try before quitting on this place. I figured if it was bad we can check out and leave early.
First Impressions — this place is tucked away in the hills of Temecula and it’s a very nice drive to get down there from where we live. It is surrounded by properties with huge acreage of land. You’ll pass by nice homes with vineyards as you drive thru the road to get here. It feels like you’re riding thru the back roads of some country you’ve never been to before, very agricultural with the grapevines everywhere. There’s even a small quickie mart down the road from this place (not really cheap — $ 5 for Milk, $ 5 for hot dog weenies) but it beats driving 25 minutes round trip to get into town just to save a few bucks. Once you pull into Indian Oaks you’ll see large shady trees which for the most part cover the RV sites. You’ll see all the resident trailers there, most are not the newer kind so you’ll start to immediately think about the Unilocal reviews. For a second you’ll wonder if it’s safe — but don’t judge a book by it’s cover — older Trailers don’t necessarily mean bad people are here. It’s not very fancy if that’s what you’re looking for. It’s not a 5 start motorhome lodge resort that will cost you $ 1400 for 3 nights. It’s just a nice simple place to get away — have fun, enjoy and it won’t cost you a fortune to stay there $ 120 for 3 nights. Sure, there are a lot of full time residents here and you can tell the full timers have their nice spots where they reside in — mostly older folks, and most of them have done a pretty decent job of making it clear this is home to them. I can respect that. They’ve done a good job of personalizing their own space — fenced in, Patios for shade, real clever. For those of us still in our 30’s, it makes you appreciate home and at least for me it helped me reflect on the your future goals! Just remember you’re only here for the weekend, it’s always a good idea to be courteous to everyone. Everyone that walked by our site was generally speaking good about being neighborly. We stayed at an RV Site near the Main Entrance. First site in #18, at first my initial reaction was to complain about my space, but then i quickly realized we had a nice view from there once the trailer next to us moved (some people that had lived there for a year — nice people, husband and wife with two small kids).
About the Restrooms, It certainly makes it more convenient if you’re renting a travel trailer or you got your own set up. Tent camping is cool, but there is something to be said about not needing to walk to the restroom in the middle of the night. With that said we did use the public restrooms and it was surprisingly clean the entire weekend. Unlike other places i’ve stayed at over long holiday weekends the bathrooms are typically destroyed after the morning herd of campers hits these places. Not here, the bonus here is most of the people camping are in Trailers so they don’t use the bathrooms as much. It is there for the few tent campers, which aren’t that many to begin with (limited sites by the water and a few overflow tent sites in the front near the main road). It’s mostly for day use for people by the lake and the bar. It makes nice for showers in the evenings since they are typicall vacant, we showered around 7pm nobody was using them.
Indian Oaks put on a show for the guests on Saturday by hiring a mobile DJ that rolls up into the Resort down by the lake — he has his portable Microphone and did an excellent job of providing games for all the kids. You don’t realize how many kids are there until you see the community come together to participate.

Love love love!!! Jusr day one! Susan and her
amazing! !! Professional but fun! We’ll be back FOR SURE!!!

After reviewing their website, I was soooo excited to spend Easter weekend with my kids camping here!!!
I called to ask a few questions and to book my reservation. The woman that answered the phone, Susan was incredibly rude! My 1^st and only question I had for her was if they had showers on site. Not such a challenging question, I may think. Being in Customer Service myself for over 25 years, you do hear a LOT of dumb questions, believe me! Her response to me was, «Have you been to our website»? I said Yes, but I didn’t see it on there which is why I am asking. «Really??? You didn’t look on the map to see that we have 2? One for Winter time and 1 that is open 7÷24»???
Ummmmm, I think I will take my family and camping business to a place that is a lot more friendly, thank you for your time!

We ALWAYS stay at Lake Skinner, but this was a last minute trip and they were booked. This place was on a website as the top 10 campsites in so cal and their website made the place look really good.
When we get there, the registration office is attached to a bar and the workers are drinking and smoking when we walk up. They take us into pay and there is a sign saying their faucet water tested so high of nitrates that pregnant women and infants should not drink ANY of their water. My son is 5 months old. GROSS!
The entire place looks like a cheap trailer park. We go to take our son for a walk and the «dam» is like 20 ft long and you can’t really hike around behind your site because the brush is so overgrown. So to take him for a walk we had to go through the aisles of trailers and the people at the bar staring awkwardly.
They say you can swim but the extremely small lake is disgusting. It’s pretty when you first drive in, but don’t be deceived. It is green and gross when you get close. (See what I did there)
The lady who checked us in tells us, «I told you over the phone there is no campfires right» I tell her no, that we brought wood and that’s how we were going to cook our food. She says there is a bbq. But we couldn’t put huge logs of wood in the tiny bbq.
So we ate funyuns for dinner. What kind of campsite does NOT allow fires?!
I feel terrible this was both my husband and sons first time camping and it was terrible. At least my son won’t remember but my husband will. We ended up leaving early because there was nothing to do after getting zero bites when we fished for 2 hours.
Don’t waste your time unless you like tent camping in a trailer park where you feel like you could potentially be axe murdered.

OK I want to say that the reviews about this place boggle my mind as it is not what everyone chalks it up to be. If you have teenage kids that can watch themselves while you can sit at a bar and drink beer. (that’s if you can find a seat at the bar as all the locals and and full time tenants fill it quickly) Once we drove in I was extremely unimpressed and a little angry at what they make this place out to be. The «lake» is a man made disgusting slime pool that smelled and was green and nasty! But since it was like 100 degrees at 8am we got in! All of the good spots are already taken by full time residents, but they seemed very friendly. That was until a woman who lives there came up to our camp, and our neighbors camp, and said she wanted to inform us because we had young children that a sex offender lived right next to the bathroom! We are talking you walked down the ramp of the bathroom and there is his house! This made me extremely uncomfortable and I refused to bathe or shower without my husband standing guard in the bathroom. I thought this place was nice because of the paddle boats! 5 dollars an hour to go in circles in an area about 20 feet! No campfires they were on restriction. No wilderness there is a busy road which can keep you up at night, not to mention the house next to our spot/​campground came home around midnight and left their headlights shining into our tent and their music blaring for like twenty minutes while they unloaded! It says their is a water balloon launcher, their is not, as a matter of fact no water balloons period! We were honestly very disappointed and think $ 25 is overpriced. I can understand it’s against the law to disclose information regarding sex offenders, but to put two campsites with one being two mothers alone with multiple little children and then my husband and my self with our two year old not fifteen feet away from a active registered sex offender. We won’t come back!

We loved our stay with friends this weekend. Yes, it’s not a luxury campground, but it is pretty, inexpensive, and the oaks provided nice shade. Caught lots of fish. Bathrooms and showers were a welcome addition, as were the free fire pit rentals. We will be back.

I’m glad the poor reviews for this campground didn’t deter me from wanting to give it a whirl. I LOVED this place!
I wanted to take a mini trip to Temecula to escape reality for a few days. I’m extremely frugal and am always looking to keep costs down… so my boyfriend and I figured we could utilize the giant tent that we bought several months ago and rough it in the great outdoors.
SO GLAD we made this choice! We had a blast at Indian Oaks! The lady who greeted us at check-​in was about as friendly as they come and gave us a secluded campsite under an enormous oak tree (never underestimate the importance of SHADE when you’re camping in the desert).
I will agree that the lake is a tad on the grotesque side, but that certainly didn’t deter me from jumping in and enjoying a swim! (side note: I still haven’t contracted any diseases and I haven’t noticed any abnormal growths from my body. I reckon’ it’s safe to swim).
If you consider yourself «outdoorsy» and enjoy simple things like hiking, BBQing, enjoying a beer on a giant boulder conveniently located right next to a waterfall, etc, then I highly recommend this place. The other campers were extremely friendly and consdierate. I will absolutely reserve a site the next time I return to wine-​country!

This place is a straight TRAILER PARK! There is no lake, it’s more like a big nasty mushy pond/​swamp. There is no reason to fish, you can just grab the already dead fish floating on top of the water. You can hear cars from the street and hear your neighbors snoring. I can’t believe people call this place camping.

A 3 night campout in tents with family and a small Ranger group (
) made a nice weekend getaway. Indian Oaks is a trailer park for campers and residents with tent camping and day use. It is located in Temecula’s wine country and not far from the Pachenga Casino. It is very close to lake Skinner, but it has it’s own lake and several activities. Although this particular weekend’s weather hit the high 90’s, the lake and being outdoors under trees was still enjoyable. It’s not a wilderness camping experience, but there was enough wildlife and an insect/​amphibious environment that made a very nice soundtrack to sleep to.
The Upside:
Spacious (tent) camping sites with shade trees and clean showers.
Fun little lake with swimming, water balloon launcher, fishing and peddle boats…(bring your pool rafts!)
Horseshoes and a few other activities.
Bass, Catfish and Bluegill catch and release fishing. (Witnessed two 10+ pound cats)
Very friendly and knowledgeable staff.
Internet connection at an outdoor bar.
The Down:
Our group camping spot was very nice but was located next to a busy street.
Many permanent residents in the park, took the «camping» feel from the experience.
The streams feeding and leaving the lake were stagnate and smelled pretty bad.
No Campfires (at least at the time we were there).
Horseback riding was advertised as nearby, but the stable only had two horses and could only ride in the morning. It wasn’t going to work for our larger group.
Overall, the staff was very accomodating to us. They allowed us to park a trailer in our tent area and they often checked in with us to make sure we were enjoying the weekend. They sell drinks, ice and propane. The place reminded me of some of the camping trips we took as kids. It is great for kids!