Website:https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/cao/edga/Film.html (Film San Diego)https://www.sandiegocounty.gov/content/sdc/dpw/airports/ocotillo.html (Ocotillo Airport)
Description: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 Controlled by Tower: No
Site Condition:Golden rays of dawn peek over an eastern knoll warming away the early morning chill. Gradually, the sapphire sky, with its pinholes of starlight, dissolves to deep azure. Ocotillo Wells. Here in the Anza-Borrego Desert, life is best lived from September to May, away from the searing heat of summer. Here there is the opportunity to see the ancient and the modern. 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.
General Notes:Updated 1/4/24 J.Jackson
Jurisdictions::SAN DIEGO (CITY) FILM OFFICE - FLICS, San Diego County
Within 30-Mile Zone: N
State Property: No
Closed/Vacant: No
GPS Source:Google Maps (interactive), x coordinate: 33.1321440, y coordinate: -116.0808324
Contacts: Meyers, Giang *Creative Economy Manager, Office of Economic Development and Government Affairs1600 Pacific Highway, Suite 152, San Diego, CA 92101 619.346.8572 Mobile[email protected]
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