Camp Las Pulgas

It was used for training US Marines before departing to the Pacific War and housed them upon their return.

This area is now the parking lot for Camp Pendleton's Combat Convoy Simulator and the Training Support Division.

[1][2] Gaspar de Portolá's expedition with Junípero Serra and Joan Crespí camped at the spot in 1769.

Father Crespí named the place La Canada de los Rosales or Rose Canyon, after seeing the wild Castilian roses that grew in the canyon.

A few years later a Mission San Luis Rey de Francia survey party camped at the canyon and found and were hurt by many fleas, thus Camp Las Pulgas.

Commandant of the Marine Corps, General Robert Neller , speaks to Marines at the Las Pulgas Parade Deck, Camp Pendleton on Oct. 5, 2015
Quonset huts at Camp Las Pulgas in 1964 at Camp Pendleton
Las Pulgas Lake Fire Drill at Camp Pendleton