Lodging
www.OjaiInn.com will serve as our primary, discounted motel in Ojai ($85/room), with www.sunidoinn.com (20% discount on any room) joining the Ojai Inn as our two suggested places to rest your head (when that sliver of opportunity presents itself). The Ojai Inn sits closest to Thacher School, hence logistically about as good as you’re gonna get, short of camping at Thacher. If any prime crew members are reading this for his/her runner (isn’t that what crews are for?), and you want to make the most of your weekend (you may have noticeable amount of down time, hence leisure time, hence opportunity to loll around in Ojai), then find some way of finagling accommodations at Sunido Inn – yes, much pricier than Ojai Inn, but shouldn’t you be pampered for all the crap you’ll have to endure for your runner?!!? Of course, both Ojai and Ventura abound with motels, and if your search impetus won’t be satisfied until you check out at least 14 or 41, have at it. Still, for the discounts both these motels offer us, we hope you’ll consider them first in your search. Mention Two Moon when calling to make your reservations. Should you opt to also join us for some of the pre-event festivities closer to the beach, your motel search ought to also include Oxnard, with the Best Western on Oxnard Blvd book.bestwestern.com/bestwestern/productInfo.do?propertyCode=05557 being one of the better and more proximate motels to trails in Pt Mugu State Park. While we don’t have specific discounts with them, they were a favorite spot in earlier Coyote renderings.
Luxury Accommodations on the Athletic Field
For other options, and for wider information about what to do (whale watching?), where to go, how to spend money in Ojai or Ventura County, visit the Ojai Chamber of Commerce website, OjaiChamber.org or Ventura’s comparable organization www.ventura-chamber.org/ – maybe you’ll want to spend a week on either side of Two Moon just for the fun of hanging around this somewhat idyllic locations. And you have to be in town, not on the ridge suffering during the run, to appreciate Ojai’s self-proclaimed magical pre-sunset “pink moment.”
Camping
Camping will be available on the Thacher School Athletic Field for $29.29 for the entire weekend (Friday morning as we set up til Sunday noon’ish as we tear down). Choose this option (later e-mail traffic), and you’ll pay sometime before you show up.
If you come early and wish to stay near available trails in Pt Mugu State Park, check out staying at either Thornhill Broome Beach or Sycamore Canyon. Both campgrounds are among those that Gov. Ah-nuld has taken off the “reservation” system, so they are first-come, first-serve.
In Ojai, there are two obvious campgrounds – Camp Comfort and Dennison Campground. Out Rte 33, in the Driving Directions section, are a couple more ‘grounds, but they’re farther away from Ojai and the Start/Finish.
Camp Comfort, with sites for RV’s (but no noticeable spots just for tents). From the junction of 33 & 150, head away (south) from Ojai on 33, for a half mile, turning left onto Hermosa Road. Follow Hermosa for about 0.6 miles, turning right at the stop sign, after which you’ll immediately see the campground. Drive another 1/10 mile to the entrance. Fees (as of this writing) are $40/night, with shower available.
Dennison Campground is about 1.5 miles, on the righthand side, beyond Boccali’s on Hwy 150. Somewhere over 20 drive-in tent sites (w/ fire ring), the ones higher on the hill affording some pretty spiffy views of the Ojai Valley. $20/night. No shower, but a couple bathrooms situated here ‘n there.
Sitting above the valley, this offers spectacular views of the Ojai Ridge
