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Rental Information: Skylark Ranch

Driving Time • Facilities Overview • Ropes Course Information • Local Attractions • Map • Ready to Reserve?

Camp Skylark spans 280 acres in the Santa Cruz Mountains above the beautiful California coast. Sleeping accommodations vary from tent cabins to primitive hike-in outposts for pitching tents with access to toilets, potable water and fire circle.

Other features available are a high and low ropes course, an indoor dining hall with commercial kitchen, large modern shower/bathroom facility, central group fire circle, meadow, archery range, extensive hiking trails through diverse ecological habitats with access to Big Basin State Park. Skylark offers a peaceful outdoor retreat with basic comforts.

Driving Time from San Francisco:

Skylark Ranch is about 90 minutes south from San Francisco, 15 minutes south of Pescadero, near Pigeon Point Lighthouse. 

Facilities Overview:

Total Camp Capacity: 200 people/night

Dining Hall: Fully functional commercial kitchen and dining hall that has a capacity of 200 (California food handler’s certification required).

Tent Cabin Villages/Units: Each village/unit has canvas platform tents (4 beds/tent) for overnight use. An outdoor cooking area is provided and includes a campfire circle, picnic tables and food storage. Each unit has its own water and toilets. Capacity numbers include: 

• Flicker = 38 people
• Chickadee = 28 people
• Starling = 32 people
• Meadowlark = 28 people
• Cardinal = 28 people
• Pajarita = 28 people

Outposts: Each outpost has a camping area, toilets, potable water and fire circle. Optimal use of these outposts is to pitch backpack tents. Outposts require a short hike from 1/2 mile to approximately one mile. Capacity numbers include:

• Outpost = 18 people
• Toby’s Meadow = 18 people (includes lean-to shelter for sleeping or cooking with a gas stove)

Low and High Ropes Course: 

Click here for more information!

Local Attractions Sampler: 

• Año Nuevo State Park is the site of the largest mainland breeding colony in the world for the northern elephant seals.
• Big Basin State Park has the largest continuous stand of ancient coast redwoods south of San Francisco, the park consists of hiking trails through old growth and recovering redwood forest, with mixed conifer, oaks, chaparral, and riparian habitats.
• Pescadero Organic Farms information, click here.

Map

Click here for a Skylark Ranch map.

Rate Information

Rental Time Period: Rates cover from 4 p.m.-2 p.m.

To qualify for the Girl Scout rate, at least 60% of a group must be Girl Scout members registered with GSNorCal.

Name of Rental Unit	Capacity	Girl Scout Rate	Non-Profit Rate
Pajarita	28	85	90
Meadowlark	28	85	90
Cardinal	28	85	90
Flicker	38	85	90
Starling	32	85	90
Chickadee	28	85	90
Outpost	18	35	50
Toby's Meadow	18	35	50
Director's Cabin	4	40	60
Staff House	6	95	110
Health Center	2	55	75
Small Buildings (4)	2	45	65
Dining Hall	200	185	265
Kitchen (must also rent Dining Hall)	n/a	105	140
Shower House	n/a	65	85
Entire Camp	200	1170	1440
Ropes Course Half Day (4 hours)	Check back later	Check back later	Check back later
Ropes Course Full Day (8 hours)	Check back later	Check back later	Check back later

Ready to Reserve?

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