Bob Scott Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Accessible from U.S. Route 50. In an open setting with pinyon-juniper forest at Bob Scott Summit. Hunting for deer and elk in season. Fishing at Birch Creek, 8 miles from campground. IMPORTANT NOTICE: The Bob Scott Campground will be renovated in Fiscal Year 24. In the meantime, potable water is not available for public consumption at the campground. The District has kept the flush restrooms open and serviceable. Renovations will include improved road access, longer and level RV pads, restroom replacement with vaulted toilet facilities and upgraded public water system. Keep reading
These renovation improvements will afford easier access for variety of RV's and campers with infrastructure that is updated and easier for maintenance. With improvements to the water system, the District can extend the open season. Funding for these improvements are from funding received from the Great Outdoors Act and Rural Schools Title II funds.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…campground. The District has kept the flush restrooms open and serviceable. Renovations will include… / …level RV pads, restroom replacement with vaulted toilet facilities and upgraded public water system. These…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…in Fiscal Year 24. In the meantime, potable water is not available for public consumption at the campground. The…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Big Creek CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 10 mi
Hickison Petroglyph Rec SiteMount Lewis Field Office · 13 mi
Kingston CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 18 miToquima Cave CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 22 miSan Juan Dispersed CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 27 miColumbine CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 43 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Austin, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 25°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
Bob Scott 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 →