It is situated on Reyes Creek within the Los Padres National Forest 1.5 miles (2.4 km) from Lockwood Valley Road leading from Frazier Park / Lake of the Woods to California State Route 33, just north of.

The area is some of the highest temperature dirunals with average yearly highs being at or sometimes higher than the nearby Central Valley but with lows that commonly several degrees colder with frosts seen from as early as September to May.

walked from San Luis Obispo to Upper Cuyama[,] where they felt they found an area that reminded them of southern Germany.

[6]According to Kane, Scheideck built an adobe house and store with a wine cellar "and was known to serve hard cider to postal customers and candy in a bucket for the children.

[2][7] In 1975 there were only two couples living year around in the settlement, one of which was Barbara and Harold Brake, who owned the gas station, bar, store and dance hall.

and Stephanie Rogers, according to a Los Angeles Times reporter, who called the settlement "a self-contained mountain colony" with no telephone service and only two mobile phones for communication outside the Ozena Valley.

In July 1979 a golf tournament was held on a course "scratched into" the surface of the landscape, dodging "bushes, gullies and rattlesnake holes."

[8] The place is so remote: 37 miles (60 km) due north of Ojai, up the tortuous California 33 beyond Matilija Canyon's cutoff and over much of the 6,500-foot (2,000 m) Pine Mountain before descending to 4,000 feet (1,200 m).

Then two right turns take the car onto dirt and, in two crossings, through the winding Cuyama River before climbing again, this time over a mesa into a mile-long gash in the Earth called Ozena Valley.

Scheideck's Lodge, while a curiosity to the day-tripper and oasis for hikers at nearby Reyes Creek Campground, performed many functions beyond pulling tap beer and keeping a jukebox current with Hank Williams Jr. and Bonnie Raitt.