Baker Creek Campground
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- Taking bookingsSites offered on 3 of the next 15 nights read 15:40 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 37All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Baker Creek Campground is one of five developed campgrounds at Great Basin National Park. Intended for those who like to plan on a bit shorter notice, this campground has a short reservation window to accommodate those last second travel plans. Baker Creek is an ideal campground for those seeking out the backcountry with the Baker Lakes Loop Trailhead easily accessible from this location. You’ll find plenty of shade, you’re close to the Lehman Caves Visitor Center for cave tour access, and slightly higher elevation for cooler temps even on scorching days. Experience the full breadth of what the park has to offer from Baker Creek. Keep reading
Recreation
The park offers a variety of trails with views of mountain peaks and alpine lake surrounded by beautiful cliffs at trail's end. Reserve a guided tour of Lehman Caves, take the scenic drive to the face of 13,063 foot Wheeler Peak or see 5,000 year old Bristlecone pine trees grow on rocky glacial moraines. Baer Creek trailhead and Pole Canyon are the two closest trailheads to Baker Creek Campground and are open during the summer months when this campground is open.
Facilities
Baker Creek Campground offers picnic tables, fire pits with attached grills, vault toilets, and multiple ADA accessible sites. Located just off Baker Creek Road, it is nearby the trailhead bearing the same name. Trails towards Grey Cliffs campground and ultimately the Pole Canyon Trail or the Baker Creek Trailhead also leave from the campground, making for easy access to a network of dozens of miles of backcountry access.
Natural Features
Baker Creek Campground is set in a Pinyon-Juniper forested landscape, with the occasional much larger and older ponderosa pine. Find the grey cliffs behind the campground, jutting out from otherwise mild slopes. See Baker Peak and Doso Doyabi from various areas in this little valley.
Nearby Attractions
Don't forget, Great Basin National Park was forshadowed when Lehman Caves was annointed a National Monument in 1922. The cave and its underground wonders are just a few miles away behind the Lehman Caves Visitor Center. Access is by tour only so be sure to book a reservation before you arrive, or stop by the visitor center to check on remaining availability.
Charges & Cancellations
No-Shows: A no-show visitor is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. The remainder of the reservation will be canceled and refunded, less the first night's rate and a $20 service fee. Refunds will not be provided within 24 hours of the first day of the reservation. Refunds will not be provided due to weather.
What the agency tells you
This is an unstaffed campground. Bring your confirmation paperwork with you or be sure to have your confirmation uploaded onto your cell phone before you arrive (since many cellular providers will not work out here). You may need to be able to verify your reservation.
There is no potable water available at Baker Creek Campground. Please do not wash dished in creeks or streams.
Generators may only be used between the hours of 8:00 am and 8:00 pm. Quiet hours are between the hours of 8:00 pm and 8:00 am.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Pets must be secured in a vehicle or on a leash of no more than six feet at all times. They must be attended at all times. Pets are not allowed on any trails, or the backcountry, within Great Basin National Park. They may be walked on paved surfaces and any roads legally drivable by vehicle. Please clean up after your pets.
Refunds will not be provided within 24-hours of the first day of the reservation. Refunds will not be provided due to weather.
🏕️ GREAT BASIN NATIONAL PARK CAMPER NOTIFICATION 📍 Baker, Nevada If you are camping at Great Basin National Park, we encourage you to sign up for CodeRED emergency notifications while you are visiting the area. In the event of a wildfire, natural disaster, evacuation, or other emergency, Great Basin National Park employees and the White Pine County Sheriff’s Office may use CodeRED to provide important emergency notifications to campers and visitors. 📲 How to Sign Up Visit the White Pine County CodeRED registration page: https://accountportal.onsolve.net/whitepinecountynv CodeRED Registration - Create a CodeRED account. - When asked for your address, enter: 100 Great Basin, Baker, NV 89311 - Complete your registration and ensure your phone number is correct so you can receive emergency notifications. 🏕️ When Your Camping Trip Is Over Please log back into your CodeRED account and unenroll from the notifications associated with your Great Basin National Park visit. This helps ensure that emergency notifications are reaching visitors who are currently camping in the park. Thank you for helping Great Basin National Park and the White Pine County Sheriff’s Office maintain an effective way to communicate with campers and visitors during an emergency. Stay informed. Stay prepared. Stay safe.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 37 · 4 walk-in
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 37
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Night sky · 9th darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 1
58 of 74 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:40 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
“The remainder of the reservation will be canceled and refunded, less the first night's rate and a $20 service fee. - Refunds will not be provided within 24 hours of the first day of the reservation.” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 37 mapped sitesAll 37 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 37 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 36 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Baker Creek | 10 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 25 ft | 144 ft | 203 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 11 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 78 ft | 154 ft | 278 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 12 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 77 ft | 169 ft | 389 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 13 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 68 ft | 172 ft | 466 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 104 ft | 463 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 100 ft | 130 ft | 140 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 16 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 74 ft | 128 ft | 207 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 17 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 49 ft | 200 ft | 186 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 18 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 49 ft | 217 ft | 138 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 19 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 184 ft | 84 ft | 350 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 2 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 46 ft | 142 ft | 155 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 20 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 184 ft | 143 ft | 169 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 21 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 25 ft | 157 ft | 48 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 22 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 25 ft | 148 ft | 73 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 23 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 132 ft | 214 ft | 192 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 24 | rv nonelectric | 50 ft | 150 ft | 252 ft | 165 ft | ||
| Baker Creek | 25 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 133 ft | 467 ft | 180 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 26 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 133 ft | 519 ft | 287 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 27 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 103 ft | 620 ft | 163 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 28 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 103 ft | 600 ft | 96 ft | $20 |
| Baker Creek | 29 | walk to | 61 ft | 578 ft | 173 ft | $20 | ||
| Baker Creek | 3 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 46 ft | 186 ft | 110 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 30 | walk to | 80 ft | 651 ft | 223 ft | $20 | ||
| Baker Creek | 31 | walk to | 61 ft | 542 ft | 222 ft | $20 | ||
| Baker Creek | 32 | walk to | 113 ft | 600 ft | 317 ft | $20 | ||
| Baker Creek | 33 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 137 ft | 473 ft | 49 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 34 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 49 ft | 484 ft | 128 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 35 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 49 ft | 443 ft | 117 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 36 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 106 ft | 282 ft | 239 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 37 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 66 ft | 268 ft | 144 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 38 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 66 ft | 249 ft | 100 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 4 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 59 ft | 289 ft | 90 ft | $20 |
| Baker Creek | 5 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 332 ft | 136 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 6 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 76 ft | 336 ft | 182 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 7 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 71 ft | 322 ft | 98 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 8 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 71 ft | 257 ft | 42 ft | $20 | |
| Baker Creek | 9 | standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 25 ft | 126 ft | 227 ft | $20 |
25 of 37 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Grey Cliffs CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 1.1 mi
Upper Lehman Creek CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 2.0 mi
Lower Lehman Creek CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 2.1 mi
Wheeler Peak CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 3.9 mi
Snake Creek Primitive CampgroundsGreat Basin National Park · 4.2 mi
Cleve Creek CampgroundBristlecone Field Office · 22 miFrom the east or west: From U.S. Highway 6 & 50, turn south on Nevada State Highway 487 and travel 5 miles to Baker, NV. In Baker turn west on Highway 488 and travel 5 miles to the park.
From the south (Utah): Travel north on Utah State Highway 21 through Milford, UT and Garrison, UT, which will become Nevada State Highway 487 as you cross the border. Turn west on Highway 488 in Baker and travel 5 miles to the park.
From the south (Nevada): Travel north on U.S. Highway 93 (Great Basin Highway). At the junction of U.S. Highway 6 & 50 drive east to Nevada State Highway 487 and turn south. Travel 5 miles to Baker, NV. In Baker turn west on Highway 488 and travel 5 miles to the park.
Once in the park, head towards the Lehman Caves Visitor Center for 0.5 miles and make a left onto Baker Creek Road. Follow Baker Creek Road for 3 miles to reach the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Baker, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 60°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°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
Baker Creek Campground 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 →