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Cleve Creek Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 39.21383, -114.54046
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
What the record says about the site — Cleve Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Toilet on site
- No drinking water — carry your own
- No showers
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Cleve Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,237 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Cleve Creek CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Cleve Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower8 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- FFuel17 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- WWater22 mi
- DDump22 mi
- OOutfitter31 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 22-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 17 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Cleve Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,237 ft
Ground slope
23.6% · steep
State
NV
Coordinates
39.21383, -114.54046
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Cleve Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCleve Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townOsceola · ~11.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSagebrush Gas · ~17.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationLehman RV Dump Station · ~22.5 mi
- GroceriesLove's · ~17.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicWilliam Bee Ririe Hospital · ~17.3 mi
EV charging — from Cleve Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger17.8 mi straight-line W — Ely, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 1 within 100 · 36 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS108.2 mi — Kroger Smiths 390 (West Wendover, NV), West Wendover
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO130.4 mi — Walmart 2402 (Elko, NV), Elko
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.7 mi — R Place Gas and Car Wash, Ely, NV (at a gas station) · TURNONGREEN · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-12-12 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Stay-N-Charge EV Charging Station - Prospector Hotel & Gambling Hall, Ely, 17.4 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only · AFDC lists it “$0.45 per kWh”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 368025 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Cleve Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCleve Creek Recreation Area - Vault Toilets #1 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGarnet Hill Recreation Area - Vault Toilet · ~3.6 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletEly Elk Viewing Area - Vault Toilet · ~11.5 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletTimber Creek Campground · ~14.0 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Cleve Creek Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cleve Creek as a perennial stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 23.6% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Cleve Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Cleve Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Berry Creek Campground~10.9 mi
- White Pine County~12.4 mi
- Timber Creek Campground~14.0 mi · fee
- Sacramento Pass Recreation Area~14.1 mi
The unit that manages Cleve Creek Campground
Cleve Creek Campground is in the Bristlecone Field Office, Ely District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Cleve Creek Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
Agency page
blm.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Cleve Creek Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Cleve Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Picking a spot →All field notes →