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Snake Creek
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 38.91943, -114.12677
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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 — Snake Creek · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Room for 10 parties
- Listed as a backcountry site
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 Snake Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,130 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Snake CreekNIFC · 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 Snake Creek · 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
- OOutfitter1 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- ShShower6 mi
- DDump8 mi
- WWater8 mi
- GGrocery45 mi
- HHardware46 mi
- EVEV fast charger46 mi
- MMechanic46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 46-mi run (and back).
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 — Snake Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,130 ft
Ground slope
9.8% · noticeable
State
NV
Coordinates
38.91943, -114.12677
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Snake Creek · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSnake Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Spring Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townGarrison · ~5.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~5.2 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationLehman RV Dump Station · ~7.7 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 Snake Creek · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger45.8 mi straight-line NW — 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 7 within 100 · 45 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS90.5 mi — Days Inn Beaver (Beaver, UT), Beaver
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO104.0 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.6 mi — The Whispering Elms, Baker, NV (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · 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 368025 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Snake Creek · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBLDG BC Snake Creek Comfort Station #1, Historic · ~1.2 mi W · NPS
- RestroomSnake Creek Campground Vault Toilet #2 · ~3.7 mi W · NPS
- RestroomSnake Creek Campground Vault Toilet #3 · ~5.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomBLDG AS Great Basin Visitor and Resource Center · ~6.6 mi N · NPS
Coming out here — Snake Creek · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Snake 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 9.8% — noticeable. 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 Snake Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Snake Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds~1.2 mi
- BLM Corral~3.4 mi
- Shoshone 1 Campsite (Snake Creek Road)~6.8 mi
- Shoshone 2 Campsite (Snake Creek Road)~7.0 mi
The unit that manages Snake Creek
Snake Creek 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 — Snake Creek
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 Snake Creek
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 — Snake Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →All field notes →