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Walker Lake Recreation Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 38.69228, -118.76757
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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 — Walker Lake Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- No drinking water — carry your own
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 Walker Lake Recreation Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,020 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Walker Lake Recreation AreaNIFC · 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 Walker Lake Recreation Area · 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
- MMechanic13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- DDump14 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- LLaundry30 mi
- WWater36 mi
- OOutfitter39 mi
- ShShower41 mi
- PPropane55 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 36-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — Walker Lake Recreation Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
4,020 ft
Ground slope
12.7% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~6.0 mi · main line
State
NV
Coordinates
38.69228, -118.76757
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Walker Lake Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWalker Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townWalker Lake · ~3.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.0 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~16.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSafeway · ~13.1 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~13.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicWalker River Tribal Health Clinic · ~18.2 mi
- HardwareLowe's · ~27.6 mi
EV charging — from Walker Lake Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.4 mi straight-line SE — Hawthorne, 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. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 75 within 100 · 390 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS16.7 mi — Site #17, Shurz
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO16.7 mi — Site #17, Shurz
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.7 mi — Site #17, Shurz, NV · EV Connect · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 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 102314 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Walker Lake Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomR.V. Area Older Toilets · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomSportsman Beach Entrance Toile · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomRomtec Double At Rv Area · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletDouble Vault At Kiosk · ~0.3 mi SW · BLM
Coming out here — Walker Lake Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Walker Lake 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 12.7% — noticeable. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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.
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Other camps near Walker Lake Recreation Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Alum Creek~19.8 mi
Who holds the land at Walker Lake Recreation Area
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Stillwater 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 — Walker Lake Recreation Area
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 Walker Lake Recreation Area
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 — Walker Lake Recreation Area
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Power off-grid →All field notes →