Our 87 acre Ranch is located in the foothills of the San Jacinto farming valley – 25 miles east of Riverside, California. The mild winter climate makes the Ranch a great year-round location for camps, retreats, and outdoor education programs. Victory Ranch facilities comfortably accommodate over 200 people. It’s Spanish-Western buildings stand as a silent reminder of the area’s colorful history.
Ranchero Inn houses the Kitchen, Main Dining Room, Fireside Room, and Ranchero Inn Annex. The Kitchen provides cafeteria style meals for hungry guests. We have a wide variety of home cooked foods, with "seconds" readily available. Coffee is always available during meals. Snacks are available by advance arrangement. The Main Dining Room can hold up to 125 people or can combine with the Fireside Room to hold up to 230 people. The Fireside Room alone can comfortably hold up to 72 people for dining.
The Fireside Room can also serve as a meeting room for up to 80 people. The Ranchero Inn Annex serves as a meeting room for up to 60 people or can combine with the Fireside Room for up to 140 people.
The Chapel is a pleasant meeting area, complete with a stage, seating 200. It contains a piano, organ, 6' and 10' projection screens, microphones with stands, and a basic sound system.
Wagon Wheel contains a meeting room for up to 30 people. Victory Circle is an outdoor amphitheater/campfire location ideal for a variety of worship services and gatherings.
The Ranch has several sleeping facilities, one or more of which may be reserved for your group. The Bunkhouse holds 88 campers (8 rooms and 2 shared restroom areas within the building).
Las Flores houses 66 (6 rooms with showering and restroom facilities in each). These two facilities are dorm style with 5 bunk beds and 1 single/double bed in each room. Maverick and Stagecoach offer flexibility with 10 and 12 beds respectively or as semi-private housing. Several other houses offer semi-private alternatives for adults or families.
Recreational areas include a softball field, playing field, two lighted sand volleyball courts, a cement basketball court, ping pong tables, horseshoe pits, assorted playground equipment, a swimming pool, a rifle range, an archery range, and numerous hillsides for hiking and nature study. The Barnyard houses an assortment of barnyard animals and horses for trail riding. Hay wagon rides are also a popular activity and allow time to reflect on God's heavenly creation.
For your stay at Victory Ranch bring the following: Bedding (this applies to semi-private housing as well as dorm style housing), towels and toiletries, clothes appropriate for the season, comfortable shoes, flashlight, and a Bible. If you plan to do any horseback riding, please bring pants and close-toed shoes to wear on the ride. Spending money may be desirable for the animal food dispenser (when available), horseback rides, hay wagon rides, the Snack Shoppe, General Store, and Soda Machine.
All buildings have heating and cooling.
Victory Ranch Guest Relations
(951) 654-7766
18080 Gilman Springs Road
Moreno Valley, CA 92555-9710
Victory Ranch is a ministry of The Regular Baptist Conference of Southern California and is available for rental to Christian groups of like faith and practice throughout the year when not being used by the conference.
Winding along Gilman Springs Road, through the badlands between California's Highway 60 and the cities of Hemet and San Jacinto, the desolate landscape hides an oasis tucked into one of the canyons. Behind a row of pepper trees lies the conference grounds of the Regular Baptist Conference of Southern California. From its dry and dusty origins, God has used men and women with a passion and vision for Him to make Victory Ranch what it is today.
God has blessed this ministry as it has reached out to hundreds of campers each year, challenging lives and influencing people for His honor and glory. Trees dot the once barren hillsides, many of which dwarf the adjacent buildings.
Green playfields and lawns cover the dirt play areas of the early campgrounds. The two-story Hotel building, the lime kilns, and the chapel (once a barn) stand as silent reminders of the property's heritage from the 1800s. Of the original 11 cabins on Olive Tree Lane, 4 remain today. Another 18 buildings and structures join them to create a facility which can now accommodate over 200 campers.
The mission of the Regular Baptist Conference of Southern California (RBCSC) remains to conduct youth camps, promote youth activities, conduct Bible and missions conferences and institutes, and preach the gospel.
Currently we sponsor three weeks of summer camp for young people in the 3rd - 12th grades, a staff-training week, monthly church sings, Bonfire Bonanza (a youth rally/beach party), Fall and Spring Men's and Ladies' Retreats, and other camps and off-site activities.
Although just off a major road, the quiet serenity that the Ranch offers provides an ideal location for God to work in the hearts and lives of our guests as they leave their cares and worries behind for a week of camp. Our summer campers are met by loving, caring counselors who seek to ensure that each of their campers know Jesus Christ as his or her own personal Savior. Campers are encouraged to get into God's Word themselves through daily devotions, as well as attending two chapel times each day. Campers enjoy many activities including archery, crafts, hiking, horses, a petting zoo, swimming, and great food.
The ranch employs five full-time employees, in addition to part-time employees and volunteers. During the summer, there are 25-30 seasonal volunteers and counselors that facilitate the three weeks of camp that Victory Ranch operates. The off-season improvements are often made by volunteers and work groups from the Roving Volunteers in Christ's Service (RVICS) Organization who have faithfully ministered for at least one month a year for the past 20 years.
For all of these we say: To God be the glory forever. Amen.
