We'd been set up for maybe five minutes. I had just come back from scouting the area: looking at the country store, lodge, pools, and pickleball court right down the hill from us. As I came back up, I noticed all this gray smoke not too far from our row of campsites, and I'm thinking, "What the heck?" Turns one of the workers was putting up some new railing and was welding something. It started a fire that quickly started burning beyond the capacity of what the park people could handle, so they called in the fire teams. As the fire spread and the smoke got heavier, they told us to leave our rigs and head in our cars to the front parking lot. You would have to see the steep, winding road we came in on to appreciate the chaos that would have ensued if everyone had tried all at once to evacuate with their campers. Only one way in and one way out. By the time the fire departments got there, the fire had spread to a fairly large area of the park. Luckily, it hit a natural fire break (a road), so it didn't get any of the cabins or campers, and they managed to get it all under control. It burned like 6 acres, and the camper smelled like barbeque for awhile. They left a fire team overnight, and they're still here today monitoring any remaining hot spots. Never a dull moment. :)

This is a really cool park with about 70 horses, and a cool trail to a waterfall, and proximity to Solvang and the Santa Barbara coast. We'll have plenty to do the next couple days.