Overview
About Campfire Center
Why stop
- The log-seat bowl gives a small event a distinct forest setting.
Heads up
- Without a program, the venue is a very short stop.
Map
Where it is
The highest, rockiest slopes around here are a summer buffet for grizzly bears.
Pfeiffer Big Sur Tour Guide
Your drive to Campfire Center, narrated.
Parkwolf is a GPS audio tour guide for Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park. As you drive, it chimes in with what’s ahead: hidden gems, upcoming stops, history, geology, and wildlife, right through your car’s speakers.
Recorded for this place
Ewoldsen Nature Center: Fly Like a Condor“You're nearing the day-use area for Ewoldsen Memorial Nature Center, across the river along Warden's Path. The digital condor flight station lets you try flying like a condor, using actual flight patterns from Big Sur.”
Plays as you drive up to Campfire Center in the Parkwolf Pfeiffer Big Sur Tour Guide.
More stories near here in the app
- Pfeiffer Falls: The Redwood Ravine
- Big Sur Lodge and Redwood Deck
- Mount Manuel Trail: A Full Day Above the Gorge
- Big Sur Station: Gateway to Pine Ridge
- 10 audio storiesacross Pfeiffer Big Sur’s roads, triggered by GPS as you drive
- Wildlife heatmapsfor California Condor, Wild Turkey, Mule Deer, and 13 more
- Works offlinemaps, 11 trails, 20 places, and audio download before you lose signal
- CarPlay readysimple controls built for the drive
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Guide
More about Campfire Center
A small amphitheater in the woodsCampfire Center is a compact outdoor theater near the park entrance.
Campfire Center is a compact outdoor theater near the park entrance. Rows of split-log benches face a low wooden stage around a stone fire circle, with trees tight around the clearing. It is a simple program venue rather than a full-day attraction.
Come when there is a programThe center is used for peak-season evening programs.
The center is used for peak-season evening programs. Check whether one is scheduled before making this your main stop; without an event, it is a quick look at the stage and seating rather than a long visit.
Follow the center aisleThe layout is easy to read from the aisle: log benches sit on either side and lead your eye to…
The layout is easy to read from the aisle: log benches sit on either side and lead your eye to the stage. For a photo, include the aisle and both rows so the setting reads as an amphitheater instead of a close-up of the timber.
Getting to the seatsApproach from Day Use Lot 1. The route is accessible and wheelchair-user seating is provided.
Approach from Day Use Lot 1. The route is accessible and wheelchair-user seating is provided. Accessible parking and restrooms are in Lots 1 and 2; assistive listening devices can be requested.
Wildlife
Wildlife in Pfeiffer Big Sur
10 sightingsCalifornia CondorMost seen around 1 PMSighting map
55 sightingsWild TurkeyMost seen around 7 AMSighting map
101 sightingsMule DeerMost seen around 6 PMSighting map
36 sightingsTurkey VultureMost seen around 1 PMSighting map
46 sightingsAcorn WoodpeckerMost seen around 9 AMSighting map
11 sightingsGray FoxMost seen around 6 PMSighting mapSighting maps show where each species has been reported across Pfeiffer Big Sur. Wildlife moves, so no sighting is guaranteed.
