Lower Lehman Creek Campground
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- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 2019 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
In Lower Lehman Creek Campground, set among the lush green vegetation which hugs Lehman Creek, you'll secure your tent or park your RV within earshot of clear mountain water which has tumbled 3,000 vertical feet from the lakes and snowfields of the high Snake Range. Naturally landscaped with red-barked water birch, aspen and white fir a stroll through this sky island ecosystem provides for great bird-watching or a cooling dip in the stream while placing you just minutes from spectacular Lehman Caves. Be sure to make a reservation for a cave tour before you arrive in the park. Note: Campsites 11-20 are located along a paved loop road. However, that road is not currently showing correctly on Recreation.gov. We are working to resolve this issue; until then, please know that these sites are completely accessible by road. Keep reading
Recreation
For guests at Lower Lehman Creek Campground a number of recreational options present themselves. The jaw-dropping Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive runs right past the campground entrance offering 12 miles of spectacular mountain and valley views while transporting you to near tree line at about 10,000 feet in elevation. From there a roundtrip hike of just under three miles will leave you with memories of iconic bristlecone pines, which can endure for over 4,000 years and stand for thousands more after death. Another short stroll from the end of the Scenic Drive highlights Stella and Teresa Lakes, both fish free because they freeze solid during the winter months, but begging for a sunset photograph with colossal Wheeler Peak looming in the background. If a challenge is beckoning, you'll find ample beyond the Summit Trailhead. Beginning at mile 11 of the Scenic Drive the Summit Trail will launch you on an eight-mile, day-long endeavor to the roof of Wheeler Peak itself, where you may ponder the desperate lives of bristlecones, limber pines and Engelmann spruce gracing the rocky moraine below the summit. Renowned Lehman Caves is just a 10-minute drive from your campsite at Lower Lehman (You'll want to make a tour reservation before you arrive.) along with the remote solitude of the less-travelled trails of the Baker Creek Road. The Snake Creek and Strawberry Creek Roads are both unique experiences, but a but more diatant. Fishing in the park is legal with a Nevada state fishing license, but access is challenging in the small brushy park streams, so consider a day-long excursion to Baker Lake. The experience includes a twelve-mile roundtrip hike to over 10,000 feet, but the trout fishing is fine and a more majestic venue could barely be imagined. Stop by one of the park's visitor centers for fishing regulations, and please treat the delicate alpine environment around Baker Lake with respect . During the summer months beneath the uniquely black night skies of Great Basin National Park astronomy programs with park rangers draw large crowds to the Lehman Caves Visitor Center, just three downhill driving miles away. Bring a chair and dress warm as even summer temperatures can drop dramatically in the Snake Range.
Facilities
Lower Lehman Creek Campground is perfect for RVs, with large, paved, pull-through parking at six of the nine camping sites. Each site offers a picnic table, fire ring, and pit toilets within a stone's throw.
Natural Features
Lower Lehman Creek Campground is strung out along the lush riparian area hugging Lehman Creek, a small vibrant stream which has babbled its way for miles from the high country of the Snake Range, over half a vertical mile above. Most sites offer shade provided by white firs as well as juniper and pinyon pine. But at 7,300 feet in elevation, uncomfortably hot days are rare. Staying here is a wonderfull opportunity to dip your feet into cool water while diving into your favorite novel. Look up ocassionally. The limestone ridge just to the south anchors 12,771-foot Doso Doyabi to the broad Snake Valley below and the evening lightshow performed amidst one of the darkest night skies in the Lower 48 will likely keep you up well beyond your usual bedtime. If not, make sure that it draws you out.
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 Lower Lehman Creek Campground. Please do not wash dishes in creeks or streams. - Generators may only be used between the hours of 8am and 8pm. Quiet hours are between the hours of 8pm and 8am. - 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
- 20
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 7 of 14 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Night sky · 13th darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 1
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 19 of the 20 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.
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Every line of the receipt · 14
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 20 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 20 of the 20 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. 19 of the 20 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lower Lehman | 1 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 129 ft | 254 ft | 468 ft | $20 |
| Lower Lehman | 10 | type not stated | 25 ft | 282 ft | 357 ft | |||
| Lower Lehman | 11 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 182 ft | 429 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 12 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 239 ft | 453 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 13 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 209 ft | 508 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 14 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 83 ft | 176 ft | 587 ft | $20 |
| Lower Lehman | 15 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 81 ft | 257 ft | 582 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 16 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 135 ft | 748 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 17 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 49 ft | 183 ft | 767 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 128 ft | 188 ft | 885 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 19 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 327 ft | 958 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 2 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 100 ft | 127 ft | 406 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 20 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 303 ft | 998 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 3 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 14 ft | 96 ft | 308 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 4 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 14 ft | 82 ft | 308 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 5 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 30 ft | 84 ft | 132 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 6 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 30 ft | 98 ft | 159 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 7 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 37 ft | 93 ft | 145 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 8 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 37 ft | 104 ft | 181 ft | $20 | |
| Lower Lehman | 9 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 130 ft | 83 ft | 310 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Upper Lehman Creek CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 0.5 mi
Grey Cliffs CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 2.1 mi
Baker Creek CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 2.1 mi
Wheeler Peak CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 3.5 mi
Snake Creek Primitive CampgroundsGreat Basin National Park · 6.3 mi
Cleve Creek CampgroundBristlecone Field Office · 21 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.
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
Lower Lehman 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 →