Angel Creek (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, NV)
1Heads up1 fire 29 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $17–$34Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2119 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Angel Creek Campground is located on the grassy foothills of the East Humboldt Mountain Range, just eight miles southwest of Wells, Nev. It sits at an elevation of 6,200 feet. Visitors enjoy making the short drive to Angel Lake for canoeing and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Beautiful Angel Lake is just four miles from the campground, offering great canoeing and fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Smith Lake Trail begins at the entrance to Angel Lake Campground, with a designated day use parking area for the trail before entering the campground. A variety of wildlife, including bighorn sheep, mountain goats, deer and birds of prey, make its home around the lake, creating good viewing opportunities for visitors to the area.
Facilities
The campground provides vault toilets and drinking water. Each campsite contains a picnic table and combination campfire ring with grill. Most sites have tent pads. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Trash collection is available during peak season. The tent only group camping area can accommodate up to 30 people and six tents. There is parking for six vehicles. The site contains picnic tables, a group fire ring and family grill. The site is handicap accessible. If not reserved, the site can be used on a first-come, first-served basis for group camping or day use picnics. Campground is open on a first come first serve basis after peak season, without trash collection and drinking water. Please bring what you need, and pack it in, pack it out. Off season campground use is weather dependent. Please call the local district office for current status.
Natural Features
The campground is situated among mature aspens, which offer partial shade and beautiful fall color. Wildflowers dot the area during the summer months.
What the agency tells you
The single site fee includes one vehicle, the double site fee includes two vehicles, any vehicles over these will be charged an extra $6 vehicle fee at the campground.
Livestock is not allowed in the campground
Nearest pay phone and services are 8 miles away
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information on the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Please Pack in Pack out your trash.
Campgrounds are generally open from Memorial Day to Labor Day for reservations on rec.gov. However, things can change based on weather and other emergency situations, please contact the Ranger station for the most up-to-date information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 21 · 1 tent-only, 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 20 of 21
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…area. Facilities The campground provides vault toilets and drinking water. Each campsite contains a picnic…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…campground provides vault toilets and drinking water. Each campsite contains a picnic table and…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 36th darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 19 of the 21 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $17–$34 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
21 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 21 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 21 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ANGE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 252 ft | 3,963 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 4,027 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 93 ft | 3,940 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 3,834 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 95 ft | 3,755 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 89 ft | 3,572 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 3,482 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 74 ft | 3,018 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 102 ft | 2,897 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 102 ft | 2,916 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 122 ft | 3,054 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 122 ft | 3,157 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 3,184 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 3,090 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 82 ft | 3,256 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 |
| ANGE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 153 ft | 3,408 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 |
| ANGE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 3,538 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 90 ft | 3,603 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $17–$34 | |
| ANGE | ACP | group tent only area nonelectric | 20 ft | yes | 250 ft | 3,836 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $71 |
| S&P | Group S&P | type not stated | 20 ft | yes | $17–$71 | ||
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | $17–$71 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Angel Lake (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, NV)Humboldt National Forest · 2.0 mi
Thomas CanyonHumboldt National Forest · 32 mi
Terraces Campground - Picnic AreaHumboldt National Forest · 32 miSlide Creek CampgroundWells Field Office · 33 miTake Interstate 80 to the West Wells exit. Turn south on Angel Lake Road (State Route 231) and travel 8 miles to Angel Creek. Turn left and follow the road for one mile to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wells, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 61°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 16°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Angel Creek (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, NV) is in Nevada’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Mark Amodei (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →