Ocotillo Airport, located in Ocotillo Wells, is one of eight aviation facilities owned by the County of San Diego, and is a great way for pilots to visit this remote area. The airport's two runways, one 2,475 feet long and the other 4,210 feet, sit on a dry lake bed about 100 miles east of downtown San Diego. Tie-downs are available at the airport's transient area.

Ocotillo Wells State Vehicular Park is due west of the airport and has more than 42,000 acres of desert landscape. Some of the most unusual terrain in the county is within hiking distance of the airport.

Devil's Slide is a 200-foot high granite and sand island, a decomposing mountaintop. You may find old hidden mine shafts which some say are haunted. The Pumpkin Patch is a huge field of globular sandstone "concretions" formed by the natural cementing of sand particles to a small object such as a grain of sand, a piece of shell or even a bug. Dozens of other unique spots include Barrel Springs, Shell Reef, Blow Sand Hill and Gas Domes. ~ https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/dpw/airports/ocotillo.html
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