Mount Rose (NV)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $32–$55Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mount Rose Campground is conveniently located between Reno and Lake Tahoe just off scenic Mount Rose Highway. Visitors love the campground for its proximity to excellent hiking trails and recreational opportunities at Lake Tahoe. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking is the most popular pastime at Mount Rose. Several trails, including the Tahoe Meadows, Tahoe Rim, Mount Rose Wilderness and Mount Rose Summit Trails, begin very close to the campground.
Facilities
Mount Rose contains single and double-family sites, as well as one triple-family site. Six of the single sites are for tent camping only. Picnic and utility tables, campfire rings, grills and food storage lockers are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Roads and parking spurs throughout the site are paved.
Natural Features
The campground is situated high on the western slope of Mount Rose at an elevation of 9,300 feet. A scenic forest of lodgepole pine, Jeffrey pine, white pine and red fir covers the campground, offering pleasant shade in most sites.
Nearby Attractions
Mount Rose is conveniently close to beautiful Lake Tahoe, less than 30 minutes away. Tahoe offers excellent boating, kayaking, fishing, hiking and scenic driving opportunities.
What the agency tells you
Caution: black bears frequent the area; all food must be kept in provided food storage lockers or approved containers
Due to its high elevation, opening and closing dates may vary due to weather; travel over Mount Rose Highway may be similarly affected
This campground has first-come, first-served sites
Everything else this campground posts · 5
A per-day, per-vehicle fee will be collected on-site for extra vehicles
Opening and closing dates are subject to change due to existing weather conditions
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.
No Sewer or water hook-ups at camp sites
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 26 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…storage lockers are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Roads and parking spurs…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. Roads and parking spurs throughout the site are…”
- Bear boxes
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Biking
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 46th darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 3 days ago, 6.7 km away
- No change
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $32–$55 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 25 mapped sitesAll 26 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 25 of the 26 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. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop 1 | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 20 ft | 216 ft | 159 ft | 435 ft | $32–$50 | |
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 92 ft | 170 ft | 338 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 92 ft | 84 ft | 288 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 81 ft | 304 ft | 195 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 143 ft | 415 ft | 153 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 1 | 021 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 81 ft | 374 ft | 255 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 1 | 022 | tent only nonelectric | 201 ft | 635 ft | 270 ft | $32–$50 | ||
| Loop 1 | 023 | tent only nonelectric | 138 ft | 712 ft | 471 ft | $32–$50 | ||
| Loop 1 | 024 | tent only nonelectric | 87 ft | 691 ft | 589 ft | $32–$50 | ||
| Loop 1 | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 78 ft | 679 ft | 608 ft | $32–$50 | ||
| Loop 1 | 026 | tent only nonelectric | 78 ft | 605 ft | 630 ft | $32–$50 | ||
| Loop 1 | 1Host | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | $32–$55 | ||||
| Loop 2 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 94 ft | 288 ft | 90 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 97 ft | 192 ft | 163 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 98 ft | 221 ft | 232 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 84 ft | 43 ft | 192 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 84 ft | 123 ft | 150 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 143 ft | 97 ft | 125 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 66 ft | 244 ft | 147 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 66 ft | 305 ft | 154 ft | $32–$55 |
| Loop 2 | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 378 ft | 177 ft | $32–$50 | |
| Loop 2 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 150 ft | 260 ft | 120 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 117 ft | 294 ft | 254 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 109 ft | 399 ft | 356 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 109 ft | 396 ft | 265 ft | $32–$55 | |
| Loop 2 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 380 ft | 113 ft | $32–$55 |
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Mt. Rose CampgroundToiyabe National Forest · 0.2 mi
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Boca Rest CampgroundTahoe National Forest · 13 mi
Boyington MillTahoe National Forest · 14 miFrom Highway 395 south of Reno, travel 17 miles west on State Route 431, following signs to the campground.
The Actual Mailing Address is: PO Box 104, Markleeville, CA 96120.
The Physical Address is: Mt. Rose Hwy, State Route 431, Reno, NV 89511.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Incline Village, NV
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
Mount Rose (NV) 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 →