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Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds
Dispersed · National Park Service · NV · 38.91642, -114.14785
Inside a national park unit
Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds sits inside Great Basin National Park — a national park run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/grba ↗
This page calls it a dispersed camp because that is what the source record says. Inside a park unit that word does not mean camp anywhere.
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2009-09-10). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
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Ask about this camp →National Park Service lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. 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 Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,390 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Snake Creek Primitive CampgroundsNIFC · 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 Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds · National Park Service · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- OOutfitter2 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- ShShower6 mi
- DDump7 mi
- WWater7 mi
- GGrocery44 mi
- HHardware45 mi
- EVEV fast charger45 mi
- MMechanic45 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 45-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 Primitive Campgrounds
Access
Dispersed
Land
National Park Service · dispersed
Elevation
6,390 ft
Ground slope
18.6% · steep
State
NV
Coordinates
38.91642, -114.14785
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds · National Park Service · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSnake Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townBaker · ~7.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~7.3 mi
- FuelBaker Fuel and RV · ~6.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationLehman RV Dump Station · ~7.2 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
EV charging — from Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds · National Park Service · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger45.0 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 CCS91.4 mi — Days Inn Beaver (Beaver, UT), Beaver
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO104.5 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.9 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
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Stay-N-Charge EV Charging Station - Prospector Hotel & Gambling Hall, Ely, 44.9 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 Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds · National Park Service · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBLDG BC Snake Creek Comfort Station #1, Historic · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomSnake Creek Campground Vault Toilet #2 · ~2.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomSnake Creek Campground Vault Toilet #3 · ~4.4 mi W · NPS
- RestroomSnake Creek Campground Vault Toilet #4 · ~5.6 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds · National Park Service · 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 18.6% — 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Primitive Campgrounds elsewhere
Other camps near Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Snake Creek~1.2 mi
- BLM Corral~4.5 mi
- Shoshone 1 Campsite (Snake Creek Road)~5.7 mi
- Shoshone 2 Campsite (Snake Creek Road)~5.8 mi
Who holds the land at Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Great Basin National Park, manager on record: National Park Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds
Stay limit
14 nights (maximum continuous stay limit at any campsite is 14 days)
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
FREE primitive camping in Great Basin National Park, along Snake Creek Road. NPS primitive-campgrounds page (read 2026-08-17), verbatim: "These sites are all first-come, first-served and are free of charge." There are 12 campsites; several are walk-in and "Tents must be placed within 30 feet of the site's picnic table(s) and/or fire ring(s)." ROAD: "High clearance vehicles are recommended for these rough, dirt roads. RVs and trailers are never recommended." SEASONAL: "Snake Creek may be closed due to snow in winter months, check our current conditions page for up-to-date infomation." [sic] STAY LIMIT: "The maximum continuous stay limit at any campsite is 14 days" (nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/primitive-campgrounds.htm and nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/backcountry-camping.htm, read 2026-08-17). SEASONAL: the park says "Some campgrounds are closed seasonally due to weather" -- check nps.gov/grba current conditions before driving. WATER: the park's campgrounds page says of Snake Creek "No potable water is available." No entrance fee is charged to enter Great Basin NP. NEAREST TOWN: Baker, NV. Coordinate is the NPS Public POIs pin for the Snake Creek primitive campgrounds -- the 12 sites are strung along the road, so this pin is the corridor, not one site. SOURCE: https://www.nps.gov/grba/planyourvisit/primitive-campgrounds.htm | 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 Snake Creek Primitive Campgrounds
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