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Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
Dispersed · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 36.13139, -115.38389
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,392 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)NIFC · 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM) · 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
- WWater0 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- RxPharmacy3 mi
- MMechanic3 mi
- EVEV fast charger3 mi
- HHardware3 mi
- +Urgent care4 mi
- PPropane5 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- AAir-up8 mi
- LLaundry9 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- DDump28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
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 — Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
Access
Dispersed
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
3,392 ft
Ground slope
3.6% · gentle
Nearest highway
~8.4 mi · US Hwy 95
State
NV
Coordinates
36.13139, -115.38389
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureRed Rock Wash · ~0.9 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townSummerlin South · ~2.9 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~8.4 mi · US Hwy 95
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.1 mi
- FuelChevron · ~2.7 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~4.8 mi
- Dump station~28.5 mi
- GroceriesTerrible Herbst · ~2.7 mi
- PharmacyAlbertsons · ~2.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicCare Now Urgent Care · ~4.1 mi
- HardwareLowe's · ~3.4 mi
EV charging — from Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.3 mi straight-line E — Las Vegas, NV - South Town Center Drive - 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 reach70 within 25 mi · 76 within 50 · 106 within 100 · 154 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS4.2 mi — Target T1524 (Spring Valley, NV), Las Vegas
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO4.2 mi — Target T1524 (Spring Valley, NV), Las Vegas
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)2.8 mi — WEST CHARLESTON WEST CHARLESTON, Las Vegas, NV · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 395878 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomToilet 08 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomToilet 09 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomToilet 10 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomToilet 11 · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Red Rock Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.9 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.6% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- US Hwy 95 is mapped ~8.4 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM) elsewhere
Other camps near Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Kyle Canyon Campground~15.5 mi · fee
- Kyle Canyon R.V. Group Campground~15.8 mi
- Fletcher View Campground~15.9 mi · fee
- Hilltop Campground~17.5 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Red Rock/Sloan Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
Source
public land records
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
BLM developed campground in Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, about 20 miles from the Las Vegas Strip -- a fee site, included because it is the only developed BLM campground in the Las Vegas basin and we carry nothing here. FEE, BLM's own words (read 2026-08-17): "Standard and RV sites: $34.00 for reservations made through call center; $33.00 for reservations made through recreation.gov. Walk-to sites: $21.00 for reservations made through call center; $20.00 for reservations made through recreation.gov. Group Sites: $89.00 for reservations made through call c[enter]" (BLM's field is truncated at that point). SEPARATE TIMED ENTRY FOR THE SCENIC DRIVE: "If visitors would like to visit the scenic drive, they must have a separate timed entry reservation for each day they plan to enter the scenic drive. Reservations are required October 1 to May 31, 8am -5pm." FREE ALTERNATIVE NEARBY, per the same BLM record: "Red Spring/Calico Basin is located 2 miles from the campground and is a no fee area" -- worth a separate lead once its camping status is checked. NEAREST TOWN: Las Vegas, NV. Coordinate is BLM's own published point from gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/recreation/BLM_Natl_Recreation_Sites_Facilities (read 2026-08-17). It is a recreation-area pin, not a surveyed campsite. SOURCE: https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/250877/1 | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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 Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
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 — Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)
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