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Onion Valley Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 41.69021, -118.74568
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 — Onion Valley Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- First come, first served
- Tent camping
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 Onion Valley Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,093 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Onion Valley CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Onion Valley 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
- ShShower17 mi
- WWater17 mi
- @Mail21 mi
- FFuel40 mi
- GGrocery40 mi
- EVEV fast charger57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 40 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 57-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 — Onion Valley Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
7,093 ft
Ground slope
24.7% · steep
State
NV
Coordinates
41.69021, -118.74568
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Onion Valley Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureOnion Valley Reservoir · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townSummit Lake · ~17.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
EV charging — from Onion Valley Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger56.9 mi straight-line E — McDermitt, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · 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 reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 7 within 100 · 18 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS71.7 mi — Pilot Travel Center 485, Winnemucca
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO72.6 mi — Walmart 2617 (Winnemucca, NV), Winnemucca
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)132.2 mi — Harney County - Chamber of Commerce, Burns, OR (at a municipal building) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-14 · hours: 24 hours daily; Tesla adapter available
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Niles Hotel - Tesla Destination, Alturas, 93.9 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 302976 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Onion Valley Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBig Onion Sst Restroom #5(South)- Camping#2 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomBig Onion Sst Restroom #4(North)- Camping#2 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomBig Onion Sst Restroom #3- Dam · ~0.5 mi N · BLM
- RestroomBig Onion Sst Restroom #1- East Intersection · ~1.0 mi NE · BLM
Coming out here — Onion Valley Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Onion Valley Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 24.7% — 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 Onion Valley Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Onion Valley Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Pine Forest Recreation Area~2.6 mi
- Lahontan Cutthroat Natural Area~16.2 mi
The unit that manages Onion Valley Campground
Onion Valley Campground is in the Humboldt River Field Office, Winnemucca 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 — Onion Valley 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.
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 Onion Valley 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 — Onion Valley Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →The town run →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →