As California Historical Landmark #425, Rancho Los Coches RV Park in Lakeside preserves the site of the state's smallest Mexican land grant — a 28-acre parcel deeded to Apolinaria Lorenzana by Governor Manuel Micheltorena in 1843. The park offers full-hookup RV sites rated for 30/50-amp service and rigs up to 55 feet, tent sites, and on-site RV rentals along Highway 8 Business, a stretch of Lakeside's eastern commercial corridor shared with Gaetano's Pizza Ristorante Lakeside next door. Amenities include a heated pool, spa, disc golf course, fitness room, recreation hall with kitchen, pool tables, horseshoes, and a creekside off-leash dog run spanning both banks of Los Coches Creek. The original ranch house — once the first stagecoach stop out of San Diego on the Butterfield Overland Mail route — and a nineteenth-century smoker remain on the grounds, marking this as one of the few RV parks in Southern California built on a registered historical site. Full-hookup pads accommodate rigs up to 55 feet with metered electric, and the I-8 Los Coches Road off-ramp (Exit 22) puts campers within five minutes of grocery runs at Garden Farms Market on Lakeshore Drive. The 1843 land grant, originally called Cañada de los Coches or Glen of the Hogs, provided water and swine-pasture resources for the San Diego Mission before becoming a private rancho under the Butterfield Stage line.