Emigrant Campground
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- Right now
- ClosedThe agency’s own sentence, quoted below
- Sites
- 10In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
The campground, water system, and restrooms at Emigrant have been closed since late August 2025 due to flood damage. The damage to the 5-mile-long water pipe and associated water system is substantial and there is no estimated repair date. First-come, first-served tent-only campground with no additional fee. Located next to CA 190 at 2100' feet in elevation. This is a small campground with 10 sites southwest of Stovepipe Wells Ranger Station.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Around the campground
- Night sky · 50th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book until it reopens
The campground, water system, and restrooms at Emigrant have been closed since late August 2025 due to flood damage.
The closure above is the reading. We hold no availability snapshot for this campground, so there’s no thirty-night strip to draw under it.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 2
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 3
What the agency said · 1
The campground, water system, and restrooms at Emigrant have been closed since late August 2025 due to flood damage. The damage to the 5-mile-long water pipe and associated water system is substantial and there is no estimated repair date.
National Park Service · the source publishes no posting date
Filed as emergency from the agency’s own words “flood”. That reading is ours.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Wildrose CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 16 mi · walk-up · 23 sites
- Furnace Creek CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 20 mi · 130 sites
- Homestake Campground (Primitive)Death Valley National Park · 22 mi · walk-up · 10 sites
- Mesquite Spring CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 33 mi · walk-up · 40 sites
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Stovepipe Wells CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 8.8 mi
Wildrose CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 16 mi
Thorndike Campground (Primitive)Death Valley National Park · 20 mi
Furnace Creek CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 20 mi
Death Valley Backcountry Roadside CampingDeath Valley National Park · 20 mi
Mahogany Flat Campground (Primitive)Death Valley National Park · 20 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Furnace Creek, CA
Typical weather
Typical October night 49°F, day 82°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 31°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Emigrant Campground is in California’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Kevin Kiley (I), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →