Okay, I've stayed at the Days Inn in Castaic, and I don't get that feel about it, and I think Castaic is already in the Grapevine, but I do get that it's 42 miles to the next truck stop headed North on I5 at Frazier Park- that stretch is unpopulated. However, going South on I5- it's only 7 miles from the town of Castaic to Santa Clarita, where Magic Mountain is...
The east side where Lake Castaic is located (and the center where 5 splits) has several truck stops and trailer storage, boat storage, RV storage, an RV park and has quite an industrial area feel to it if you aren't in the actual housing there. Even the shopping center has a truck lot across the way from it. I think it depends on where you stop as to what the area is "like".I agree. Also with connecting Newhall Ranch to the 126 & all the residential build up off Hasley Cyn, it's been pretty much built up to the point where you're never out of a populated area between Magic Mountain & Lake Hughes now. That used to be a pretty isolated stretch. Castaic is completely meshing with the rest of SCV. A couple years & you won't be able to distinguish a difference. Heck, McBean to Magic Mtn used to be isolated in the not too distant past. Now there's all of Stevenson Ranch, etc. Eventually Castaic will probably have bigger hotels to accommodate out of town lake goers who don't want to camp.
