Fletcher View
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $33–$58Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1211 on recreation.gov
- Season
- January 1 – December 31Open January 1 through December 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Fletcher View Campground is set in the beautiful Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, just 24 miles from Las Vegas. Visitors enjoy hiking, horseback riding and scenic driving in this forested desert oasis. Keep reading
Recreation
There is paved nature trail.
Facilities
This recently updated campground is open year-round and contains several single and double-family sites, all of which have electric hookups, tables, campfire rings and grills. Drinking water is provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Due to this campground being located in a flood plain, during the monsoon season (mid-July to mid-Sept.) reservations may be cancelled and the campground temporarily closed. During this time, overnight stays are available only as weather permits.
Natural Features
The Spring Mountains National Recreation Area is a beautiful island in the desert, brimming with breathtaking scenery and diverse flora and fauna. The Bristlecone pine, the world's oldest organism, and the rare Mount Charleston blue butterfly are both found within the Spring Mountains. More than 100 springs create the namesake for the mountain range. It's the perfect place to escape the heat of the city. The campground is set in an open forest of ponderosa pine, mountain mahogany and Gambel oak, paralleling a seasonal stream and the highway. Most sites have views of the surrounding towering canyon walls.
Nearby Attractions
More than 60 miles of hiking and horseback riding trails crisscross the area; two trails allow mountain biking. Rock climbing, picnicking and scenic driving are popular activities.
What the agency tells you
Restroom facilities on site for paying customers.
First-come, first-served sites are available year-round.
Campsite must be occupied first night of reservation. Contact host or employee if you do not plan to stay any other night of reservation after first night.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Water spigots are shared between sites, but not available to fill an RV tank.
Please call 702-872-5486 to check current fire restrictions.
Click here for more info about the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forests.
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12
- Hookups
- 11 electric
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…tables, campfire rings and grills. Drinking water is provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Due…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 51st darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 5
Full this Saturdayread 16:40 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
Every one of the 5 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 2 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:40 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $33–$58 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:40 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 12 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. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FLETCHER VIEW | 001 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 170 ft | 4,867 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 002 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 4,805 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 003 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 56 ft | 4,842 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 004 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 75 ft | 4,742 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 005 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 4,681 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 006 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 57 ft | 4,677 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 007 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 127 ft | 4,533 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 008 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 4,540 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 009 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 29 ft | 4,566 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 010 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 97 ft | 4,479 ft | $33–$58 |
| FLETCHER VIEW | 011 | rv electric | 40 ft | 30 amp | 59 ft | 4,514 ft | $33–$58 |
| S&P | Standard S&P | type not stated | 40 ft | 30 amp | $33 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Spring Mountains Visitor Gateway Group Picnic SitesSpring Mountains National Recreation Area · 1.7 mi
HilltopSpring Mountains National Recreation Area · 3.2 mi
Mahogany GroveSpring Mountains National Recreation Area · 3.4 mi
McWilliamsSpring Mountains National Recreation Area · 4.9 miCampsite 11Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area · 16 mi
Red Rock Canyon CampgroundRed Rock Canyon National Conservation Area · 16 miFrom Las Vegas, Nevada, travel north on Highway 95 to the junction with Highway 157/Kyle Canyon. Turn left and travel approximately 18 miles; campground is on the left side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mount Charleston, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Fletcher View is in Nevada’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Steven Horsford (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneySteven HorsfordU.S. Representative · Nevada’s 4th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationCatherine Cortez MastoU.S. Senator · Nevada
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJacky RosenU.S. Senator · Nevada
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Fletcher View, Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada
Dear Steven Horsford, I’m a constituent in Nevada’s 4th district. I tried to camp at Fletcher View, Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 11 of the 12 campsites the agency files at Fletcher View, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 5 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Fletcher View keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Fletcher View. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Fletcher View (Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Fletcher View, Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada
Dear Catherine Cortez Masto, I’m a constituent in Nevada. I tried to camp at Fletcher View, Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 11 of the 12 campsites the agency files at Fletcher View, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 5 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Fletcher View keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Fletcher View. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Fletcher View (Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Fletcher View, Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada
Dear Jacky Rosen, I’m a constituent in Nevada. I tried to camp at Fletcher View, Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 11 of the 12 campsites the agency files at Fletcher View, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 5 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Fletcher View keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Fletcher View. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Fletcher View (Spring Mountains National Recreation Area, Nevada) via campanac.com