Welcome to Camp La Verne!
Camp Facilities
Early June is still spring at our elevation with snow flowers, wild roses and iris around camp. Spring days are in the 70s with frost on some nights. Summers are dry. Temperatures can reach the high 80s with nights in the low 40s. On rare occasions there will be an afternoon rain shower. Winter is time for snow camps in January and February.
Our largest Ponderosa and Jeffery pines reach 4 feet in diameter. We have a wide variety of wildlife here. Trout and ducks in Jenks Lake, birds of all type, deer, squirrels, raccoons and the occasional black bear pass through camp. There are many kinds of lizards.
Our facilities consist of a combination of old and new. We have open-air and winterized cabins a newly completed restroom, the kitchen, and the lodge with it’s large stone fire place. Food is served out doors next to the kitchen at the lower end of the camp. In winter and for the rare rain shower, food is served up in the lodge.
Camp Setting and Weather:
Camp La Verne is nestled in the San Bernardino Mountains in the Barton Flats recreation area. Across the valley to the north, Skyline Ridge separates us from the Big Bear Lake recreation area. To the south is the back of 11,499 ft. high Mt. San Gorgonio. A quarter mile walk takes us to Jenks Lake, which is itself about a quarter mile long. The parking lot in front of the lodge is 6,770 feet.
Early June is still spring at our elevation with snow flowers, wild roses and iris around camp. Spring days are in the 70s with frost on some nights. Summers are dry. Temperatures can reach the high 80s with nights in the low 40s. On rare occasions there will be an afternoon rain shower. Winter is time for snow camps in January and February.
Our largest Ponderosa and Jeffery pines reach 4 feet in diameter. We have a wide variety of wildlife here. Trout and ducks in Jenks Lake, birds of all type, deer, squirrels, raccoons and the occasional black bear pass through camp. There are many kinds of lizards.
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