Angel Lake (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
- $18–$36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2825 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Angel Lake Campground is located next to beautiful Angel Lake, high on the East Humboldt Mountain Range. It sits at an elevation of 8,400 feet, just 12 miles from the city of Wells, in northeast Nevada. Visitors enjoy canoeing, fishing, hiking and viewing wildlife. Keep reading
Recreation
Angel Lake offers great canoeing and fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Smith Lake Trail begins at the campground entrance.
Facilities
The campground offers single and double campsites, some of which have lake views. Each site contains a picnic table, campfire ring and grill. Vault toilets are also available. A day-use picnic area is adjacent to the campground, along the lakeshore.
Natural Features
The campground sits at the foot of rugged and scenic glacial cirques, that top out around 10,000 feet. Dwarf aspens cover the campground, providing privacy between campsites, but little to no shade. A variety of wildlife, including bighorn sheep, mountain goats, deer and birds of prey, make its home around the lake, creating good viewing opportunities.
What the agency tells you
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.
The single site fee includes one vehicle, the double site fee includes two vehicles, any vehicles over these will be charged a extra vehicle fee at the campground.
Livestock is not allowed at the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Nearest pay phone and services are 8 miles away
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.
Reserved site held until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. If you haven't occupied it at any time during this period, your reservation is null and void and we will give it to first come first serve folks. Your reservation will be a no show and no refund will be given.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…a picnic table, campfire ring and grill. Vault toilets are also available. A day-use picnic area is…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 31st darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 25 of the 28 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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $18–$36 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
28 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 28 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. 28 of the 28 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 | 25 ft | 65 ft | 202 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 284 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 249 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 323 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 301 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 78 ft | 368 ftAngel Lake | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 92 ft | 321 ftAngel Lake | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 78 ft | 354 ftAngel Lake | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 89 ft | 408 ftAngel Lake | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 010 | rv nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 397 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18 | |
| ANGE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 92 ft | 477 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 103 ft | 451 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 414 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 85 ft | 348 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 86 ft | 279 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 100 ft | 246 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 |
| ANGE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 96 ft | 196 ftAngel Lake | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 82 ft | 274 ftAngel Lake | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 77 ft | 264 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 80 ft | 183 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 021 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 78 ft | 160 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 022 | type not stated | 20 ft | 33 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | ||
| ANGE | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 78 ft | 124 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 024 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 94 ft | 31 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 80 ft | 129 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| ANGE | 026 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 120 ft | 77 ftNorth Fork Angel Creek | $18–$36 | |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 25 ft | $18–$36 | |||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $18–$36 |
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.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Angel Creek (Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, NV)Humboldt National Forest · 2.0 mi
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The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wells, NV
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 Lake (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 →