Devil's Garden Airstrip and Conservation Camp

The airstrip was built during WWII to provide a place to base military planes anticipating that the Japanese would invade the coast. Later, it has been poorly maintained, but it is still occasionally used by firefighting aircraft, private aircraft, and model airplane and rocket enthusiasts.

The conservation camp is a minimum-security state prison, from which crews of inmates with short times remaining on their sentences are bused to work on public service projects and fight wildland fires for the state of California.

During a state-wide controversy in 1994 over the parole of Serial Rapist Melvin Carter, he was housed at Devil's Garden Conservation Camp, converting it into a nation-wide controversy when the federal government began to evict California's minimum-security prison from National Forest land.