Saline Valley Campground (Primitive)
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This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- FreeNo camping fee
- Sites
- 1510 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This is a clothing-optional hot spring area approximately 35 miles from the nearest paved road. A high-clearance vehicle and all-terrain tires are necessary to access this campground and road/weather conditions may necessitate 4-wheel drive. This campground is located at 1,375ft, but requires navigating either North Pass at 7,300ft or South Pass at 5,997ft and may be inaccessible due to winter conditions.
Around the campground
- On the water
- Hot springs
- Night sky · 34th darkest of 1,201 in CA
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and it costs nothing at all. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s own record says there’s no camping fee, and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Homestake Campground (Primitive)Death Valley National Park · 16 mi
Eureka Dunes Campground (Primitive)Death Valley National Park · 22 mi
Mesquite Spring CampgroundDeath Valley National Park · 25 mi
Tuttle Creek CampgroundBishop Field Office · 26 mi
Lone PineInyo National Forest · 27 miLower Grays Meadow CampgroundInyo National Forest · 29 miThe weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Lone Pine, CA
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
Saline Valley Campground (Primitive) 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 →