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WHUFU: Spots in Nevada
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Spots in Nevada

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  • Spanish Creek Campground
  • Plumas National Forest, Greenville CA
  • Catnip Reservoir
  • Sheldon NWR, Denio, NV
  • small lake, wildlife, barren, really pretty

  • Ash Meadow NWR
  • US Fish and Wildlife Service, Death Valley Junction
  • very remote, no camping nearby, not like the NWRs I'm used to. Lotta driving to individual cool little habitats tucked away, one big pond and a couple of really beautiful cold springs.

  • Wheeler Peak Campground
  • Great Basin National Park, Baker NV
  • Almost 10,000', peak views, good day hikes. A beautiful spot.

  • Overton dispersed
  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Overton NV
  • Allstays calls this Poverty Flats, and the area across the road Snowbird Mesa. That's too cheesy for me. They both are large, flat parking areas, one on each side of Nevada 169 about 4 miles south of Overton. Evidently anybody can park wherever they want for as long as they want. It's very nice!

  • Berlin Icthyosaur Campground
  • Nevada State Parks, Ione NV
  • pretty setting at the edge of the huge Ione Valley, short walk from the fossil site. Morning talks at the fossil beds

  • Moapa NWR
  • US Fish and Wildlife, Overton NV
  • pretty little place off of SR 168. Used to be a warm springs resort, so lots of decorative palm trees around, which the rangers don't like. There is a little endangered fish, the Moapa dace, which is the reason for the whole place.

  • Cathedral Gorge State Park
  • Nevada State Parks, Panaca NV
  • Pleasant, quiet state park campground. In the flats at the bottom of the gorge. The gorge is an easy hike away.

  • Old Brewery Hostel
  • Mizpah Hotel, Tonopah NV
  • Hostel-style lodging in a cool-looking renovated brewery building behind the actual Mitzpah. Register in the hotel, walk out the back door and across the street and there you are.

  • Wildhorse Crossing Campground
  • Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Mountain City NV
  • this was closed for the gov't shutdown, but looked very nice. Across a little bridge over the river on a little point.

  • Town House Motel
  • private business Winnemucca NV
  • Very pleasant, right downtown, easy walk to food

  • Angel Lake Campground
  • Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Wells NV
  • very pretty, nestled in the bowl of a lovely alpine lake

  • Thomas Creek Campground
  • Toyiabe National Forest, Elko NV
  • beautiful location in Lamoille Canyon

  • Bailey's Hot Springs
  • private business Beatty NV
  • funky little place, needs a LOT of maintenance, but their wifi was pretty good.. They have three private bathhouses: 1 - pleasantly warm, 2 - hot (> 100) 3 - very hot. (> 104) So if the one you want is in use you're outta luck until whoever's inside has had their fill. The pools seemed hotter to me - the medium seemed like 104 and the hot like 107-8 ... your mileage may vary.

  • Banc Club Casino
  • private business Tonopah NV
  • Finally, an easy place to stay in Tonopah! I guess it's been here all along, I just never noticed it. The Banc Club is a modest little building full of slot machines, and they have a large gravel parking lot next door with a sign that says RVs welcome! An easy walk to downtown Tonopah ... such as it is.

  • Wilson Canyon Roadside Rest
  • Nevada DOT, Smith Valley NV
  • Beautiful, idyllic spot on NV 208 right on the West Walker River. In the shade of a row of stately old cottonwoods, it's quite spacious and has at least four really nice RV spots right in the river.

  • Stillwater NWR
  • US Fish and Wildlife, Fallon NV
  • large reserve, very flat (former Lake Lahontan), nice viewing areas, allegedly camping

  • Wild Horse Resevoir
  • Bureau of Land Management (BLM),
  • didn't stay here, but looks real nice, on a point of land jutting into the reservoir. There is also private camping for $6 all over the place, where you can camp right up to the water's edge

  • Las Vegas Bay Campground
  • Lake Mead NRA, Henderson NV
  • Still quiet and cheap and convenient, EXCEPT for the generators which always seem to be running here during the permissible hours. But really, a $10 (or $5 for seniors) nice campground 16 miles from the edge of Las Vegas ... gotta take the bad with the good. Checks not accepted, so make sure to have that $5 bill!

  • Echo Bay Campground
  • Lake Meade National Recreation Area, Overton NV
  • Omigosh! Google has shrunk their map of Lake Mead so that Echo Bay is like 10 miles from the lake now! The water level must be really low!

  • Ruby Lake Campground
  • Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, Ruby Lake NWR, Elko NV
  • gotta drive 20 miles of gravel to get here. Right across the road from Ruby Lake Nat'l Wildlife Refuge, on a hill looking over the whole Ruby Valley.