Red Rock Canyon Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:43 UTC
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 80All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Red Rock Canyon's standard, RV, and group campsites are located in the stunning Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, an approximate 20 mile drive from "The Las Vegas Strip." Visitors enjoy hiking, rock climbing, bike riding and scenic driving in this unique Mojave Desert environment. Note: If visitors would like to visit the scenic drive, they must have a separate timed entry reservation for each day they plan to enter the scenic drive. Reservations are required October 1 to May 31, 8am -5pm. Keep reading
Recreation
The Red Rock Scenic Drive & Visitor Center is located 3 miles from the campground. If visitors would like to visit the scenic drive, they must have a separate timed entry reservation for each day they plan to enter the scenic drive. Reservations are required October 1 to May 31, 8am -5pm. Red Spring/Calico Basin is located 2 miles from the campground and is a no fee area and does not require a reservation. Activities available are miles of hiking trails, rock climbing, horseback riding, mountain biking, and road biking. Guided hikes and educational programs available on certain days at the Visitor’s Center.
Facilities
Our campground facilities are as follows: 53 individual standard sites with a max of 10 people and 2 vehicles are allowed per site. All standard sites contain picnic tables, grills, and firepits. Grills and firepits available only as fire restrictions allow. Some individual standard sites have shaded picnic table areas. Common vault toilets, trashcans, and drinking water are provided. 3 fully accessible campsites. At these sites, in addition to the parking spot having a concrete surface, as they do at most of the other sites at the facility, there are concrete pathways leading to the restrooms, which are all accessible. 10 walk-to sites with a max of 1 tent and 1 vehicle per site. All walk-to sites contain picnic tables and grills. Grills available only as fire restrictions allow. Common vault toilets, trashcans, and drinking water are provided. 6 RV Sites which have room for 1 RV and 1 vehicle per site. Common vault toilets, trashcans, and drinking water are provided. There are no hookup services (electrical, propane/gas, water tank filling, or grey/black water disposal). 7 large group sites can accommodate up to 50 people and 8 vehicles per site. All group sites have a shaded picnic table area. Each group site is primarily tenting with 10 individual small tent areas. Common vault toilets, trashcans, and drinking water are provided nearby. Grills and campfire circles available only as fire restrictions allow. Parking is limited to the campsite's designated parking. There are no extra parking areas and no Day Use Area in the campground. All campsites must be reserved online at Recreation.gov Natural Features Explore the peak tops, rolling sandstone ridges, steep walled canyons which highlight special wildlife, vegetation, and cultural history. The campground is in a quiet bowl near some of the most popular rock climbing destinations in the country, providing privacy with limited shade.
Nearby Attractions
Spring Mountain Ranch State Park (10 minutes) Springs Preserve (20 minutes) Floyd Lamb Park (30 minutes) Desert National Wildlife Refuge (35 minutes) Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve (40 minutes) Mt Charleston/Spring Mountain Visitor Gateway (45 minutes) Hoover Dam (1 hour) Lake Mead National Recreation Area (1 hour) Valley of Fire (1 hour) Grand Canyon West (2.5 hours)
Charges & Cancellations
Red Rock Canyon NCA Changes or Modifying a Reservation If your new stay dates are completely different from your original stay dates, there is a $10 change fee (per reserved site) . There are no additional fees for: Adding or removing nights (leaving early) to your stay. Changing to a different campsite. No Shows Visitors have until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date to check in without being considered a no-show customer. No-show customers will forfeit your recreation fees paid unless requested thru recreation.gov. Refunds requested thru recreation.gov for no shows will be charged a $20.00 no-show fee and first night's recreation use fee for the campsite Cancellations You can cancel the reservation any time the day before of your scheduled arrival date. You will receive a refund for your stay, minus the following fees: $10 cancellation fee Any reservation fees (only if paid when booking) Any previous change fees Late cancellation fees (if applicable) of your first night's recreation use fee Canceling the day before your scheduled arrival date for individual or RV sites is considered a late cancellation. Canceling within 14 days before your scheduled arrival date for group sites is considered a late cancellation . Canceling the day of your scheduled arrival date or later is considered a no show. No-show visitors will be charged a $20.00 no-show fee, and first night's recreation use fee for the campsite. * Any changes or cancellations made to your stay on your expected check-in day are not possible through My Reservations and on-site personnel may not be able to assist. Requests will need to be made thru recreation.gov and the field office has to approve.
What the agency tells you
All campsites must be reserved online at Recreation.gov. Check-in time: 3pm (Campers do not have to check in with host) Checkout time: 11am Quiet hours: 10 pm to 6 am (There is no running of generators during quiet hours allowed) You must occupy the site that you reserved. Pets must be leashed and supervised at all times. Keep your campsite clean, food inside of vehicles and throw away trash properly. Parking is limited to the campsite's designated parking. There are no extra parking areas and no Day Use Area in the campground.
Individual-standard campsites: Are limited to 10 people and 2 vehicles per site. Camp sites #1-25 and 43 HAVE a shaded picnic area. Camp sites #26-42 and #44-53 DO NOT have a shaded picnic area. Additional vehicles are at an additional cost and only permitted if they fit within the site. Vehicles must NOT block access to emergency vehicles. See camphosts for payment of additional vehicles. Class A and Class C recreational vehicles or gooseneck trailers ONLY fit in camp sites #1-45.
Walk-to Sites: Walk-to sites are limited to 1 vehicle and 1 tent per site. Campers may sleep in the vehicle and not set up tents. Walk-to camp sites DO NOT have a shaded picnic area.
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Group Sites: Group sites are limited to 50 people and 8 vehicles per site. The closest pit toilets to group sites G and F are located at group site A. There is minimal light along that path and a flashlight/headlamp are needed. All group sites HAVE shaded picnic area.
RV Sites: RV sites are limited to 1 RV and 1 vehicle per site. There are no hookup services (electrical, propane/gas, water tank filling, or grey/black water disposal). RV sites HAVE NO shaded picnic area. RV/Trailers/Pop-Up Vehicles: Class A and Class C recreational vehicles or gooseneck trailers DO NOT fit in individual-standard campsites #46-53. Check sizing details of each campsite as they are all different. After full set up, the vehicle must be within the designated space. It cannot overflow into the road. Emergency vehicles and normal traffic flow must be able to get through.
No-Show Policy: Visitors have until check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date to check in without being considered a no-show customer. No-show customers will forfeit your recreation fees paid unless requested thru recreation.gov. Refunds requested thru recreation.gov for no shows will be charged a $20.00 no-show fee and first night's recreation use fee for the campsite. If you will be late, please contact us at BLM_NV_RR_Campground@blm.gov. If you can no longer make your reservation, please cancel it on recreation.gov, so that others may be able to reserve.
Campground reservation holders do not need to book a Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area Scenic Timed Entry ticket in order to access the campground. If visitors would like to visit the scenic drive, they must have a separate timed entry reservation for each day they plan to enter the scenic drive. Reservations are required October 1 to May 31, 8 am -5 pm.
Campground Closed June 1 - August 31. Campers can reserve sites up to six months before arrival for standard stites and 12-months for the group sites. Maximum length of stay is 14 days.
Fires are only allowed in BLM provided metal fire rings when fire restrictions allow. No firewood is available on site; however nearby grocery stores do sell bundles of firewood. Fire season is generally May-October. During this time, only propane stoves are allowed.
America the Beautiful Senior Lifetime Passes and Access Pass holders receive 50% discount on camping fees for standard individual and RV sites only (discount not available on walk-to and group sites). Passholder must be onsite and the camphost will verify the pass that is used for the site.
Limited cellphone coverage.
Prepare for the elements temperatures can go below freezing in the winter and spike up to 100+ during the spring and summer season. Winds can gust 30+ MPH, make sure everything is tied down and secure in your campground.
Off-road vehicles are not allowed in the campground.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 80 · 14 walk-in, 7 group, 32 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 31 of 32 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…have shaded picnic table areas. Common vault toilets, trashcans, and drinking water are provided. 3…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 73 of 80 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 73 of 80 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Biking
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Horseback riding
- Ranger programs
- Climbing
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 63rd darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 7
Full this Saturdayread 16:43 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 15:22 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 80 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 16 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 16:43 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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.
“Red Rock Canyon NCA Changes or Modifying a Reservation If your new stay dates are completely different from your original stay dates, there is a $10 change fee (per reserved site). Refunds requested thru recreation.gov for no shows will be charged a $20.00 no-show fee and first night's recreation use fee for the cam…” · 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 15:22 UTC
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recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
80 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 80 mapped sitesAll 80 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. 80 of the 80 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Group Sites | A-Gila Monster | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 307 ft | 5.2 mi | $80 | |
| Group Sites | B-Cactus Wren | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 256 ft | 5.1 mi | $80 | |
| Group Sites | C-Road Runner | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 256 ft | 5.1 mi | $80 | |
| Group Sites | D-Chuckwalla | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 5.0 mi | $80 | |
| Group Sites | E-Kit Fox | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 5.0 mi | $80 | |
| Group Sites | F-Burro | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 121 ft | 5.2 mi | $80 | |
| Group Sites | G-Big Horn | group shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 121 ft | 5.2 mi | $80 | |
| RV | RV 1 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| RV | RV 2 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 68 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| RV | RV 3 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 34 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| RV | RV 4 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 34 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| RV | RV 5 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| RV | RV 6 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 01 | shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 100 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 02 | shelter nonelectric | 45 ft | 95 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 03 | shelter nonelectric | 35 ft | 100 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 04 | shelter nonelectric | 35 ft | 83 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 05 | shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | 73 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 06 | shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 78 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 |
| Standard Site | 07 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 08 | shelter nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 73 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 |
| Standard Site | 09 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 119 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 10 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 73 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 11 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 119 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 12 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 13 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 14 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 15 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 16 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 17 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 18 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 111 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 19 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 20 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 21 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 22 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 23 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 24 | shelter nonelectric | 40 ft | 100 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 25 | shelter nonelectric | 25 ft | 55 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 26 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 55 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 27 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 28 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 76 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 |
| Standard Site | 29 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 62 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 30 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 58 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 31 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 81 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 32 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 76 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 33 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 34 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 35 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 36 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 37 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 38 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 131 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 39 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 72 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 40 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 72 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 41 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 42 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 43 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 92 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 44 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 45 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 69 ft | 5.3 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 46 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 85 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 47 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 48 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 85 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 49 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 67 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 50 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 85 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 51 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 52 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 50 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Standard Site | 53 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 5.4 mi | $25 | |
| Walk-to | 81 | walk to | 20 ft | 43 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 82 | walk to | 20 ft | 26 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 83 | walk to | 20 ft | 26 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 84 | walk to | 20 ft | 26 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 85 | walk to | 20 ft | 26 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 86 | walk to | 20 ft | 29 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 87 | walk to | 20 ft | 34 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 88 | walk to | 20 ft | 58 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 89 | walk to | 20 ft | 32 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 90 | walk to | 20 ft | 32 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 91 | walk to | 20 ft | 17 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 92 | walk to | 20 ft | 19 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 93 | walk to | 20 ft | 17 ft | 5.3 mi | $12 | |
| Walk-to | 94 | walk to | 20 ft | 19 ft | 5.4 mi | $12 |
25 of 80 listed
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 · 15 miThe Red Rock Canyon campground is located at 3293 Moenkopi Rd., Las Vegas, NV 89161. To get there from Clark County 215 Beltway west, take the Charleston Blvd. exit (exit #26) and head west. Drive 3.5 miles to Moenkopi Rd. Turn south on Moenkopi Rd. and drive for a mile (past the BLM Fire Station).
Physical Address: Moenkopi Road, Las Vegas, Nevada 89161.
If you are using a mapping application search for "Red Rock Canyon Campground, Las Vegas, NV."
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Las Vegas, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 50°F, day 75°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 32°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
Red Rock Canyon Campground is in Nevada’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Susie Lee (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 moneySusie LeeU.S. Representative · Nevada’s 3rd 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada
Dear Susie Lee, I’m a constituent in Nevada’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Red Rock Canyon Campground, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, and couldn’t. All 80 sites at Red Rock Canyon Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 80 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Red Rock Canyon Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Red Rock Canyon Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground (Red Rock Canyon National Conservation 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada
Dear Catherine Cortez Masto, I’m a constituent in Nevada. I tried to camp at Red Rock Canyon Campground, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, and couldn’t. All 80 sites at Red Rock Canyon Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 80 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Red Rock Canyon Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Red Rock Canyon Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground (Red Rock Canyon National Conservation 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada
Dear Jacky Rosen, I’m a constituent in Nevada. I tried to camp at Red Rock Canyon Campground, Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada, and couldn’t. All 80 sites at Red Rock Canyon Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 80 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Red Rock Canyon Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Red Rock Canyon Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Red Rock Canyon Campground (Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area, Nevada) via campanac.com