Upper Lehman Creek Campground
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- Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive Seasonal ClosurePark Closure naming this campground · taking bookings
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Whether you prefer the rich smell of summer mahogany riding air currents blended with the vanilla of ponderosa pine, or the sound of a clear mountain stream babbling beneath a symphony of swaying white fir, you won't regret your stay at Upper Lehman Creek Campground. At 7500 feet in elevation and three miles up the Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive a stay at Upper Lehman puts you within a ten-minute drive of Lehman Caves and just a brief cruise from high alpine trails that will take you into the heart of the Snake Range. Keep reading
A stroll across the grounds may present you with mule deer or turkey, while a step out onto the viewing platform over Lehman Creek could offer a glimpse of cutthroat trout moving gracefully through a liquid stage. Fall campers: Upper Lehman Creek Campground may close at any time due to snowy conditions. Reservations will be refunded if this occurs. Please be prepared with alternative lodging plans.
Recreation
For guests at Upper 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 trail walk of just under three miles will leave you with memories of iconic bristlecone pines, trees which can endure for over 4000 years, and stand for thousands after that. Another short stroll from the end of the Scenic Drive highlights Stella and Theresa 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 top of Wheeler Peak, monarch of the Snake Range, where you may ponder the desperate lives of bristlecones, limber pines and Engelman Spruce gracing the rocky moraine below the summit. Renowned Lehman Caves is just a 10-minute drive from your campsite (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. The Snake Creek and Strawberry Creek Roads are a bit more distant, but worth the drive. 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 ft, but a more majestic venue could barely be imagined. Stop by one of the park visitor centers for regulations, and please treat the delicate alpine environment of 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 four downhill driving miles away. Bring a chair and dress warm as even summer temperatures can drop dramatically in the Snake Range.
Facilities
Upper Lehman Creek Campground offers paved parking spurs, picnic tables, and campfire rings with grills along with vault toilets. In addition to almost instant access to the breathtaking Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive the natural amenities of shade and soundscape are in ample supply.
Natural Features
Resting at the base of a limestone ridge anchoring 12,771 foot Doso Doyabi to the floor of Snake Valley, the sites of Upper Lehman Creek Campground are scattered amidst a diverse forest of pinyon and ponderosa pine along with juniper, white fir, aspen and fragrant mountain mahogany. Lehman Creek with its resident trout (It's a small dynamic stream, difficult to fish.) tumbles among the sites blending with the voices of pine needles, turkey, and the crackle of campfire to create a classic soundscape, perfect for the camping experience. Shade is easy to come by during the summer months followed by the gilded quivering of aspen leaves in the fall. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (775) 234-7331.
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. - Reservations may be cancelled if the holder does not check into their site by 11am the day following their arrival, unless prior arrangements are made. - There is no potable water available at Upper 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.
🏕️ 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
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 80 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - seasonal
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Night sky · 12th darkest of 65 in NV
- Bortle 1
3 of 46 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:36 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:36 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 23 mapped sitesAll 23 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 23 of the 23 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. 23 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| Upper Lehman | 1 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 159 ft | 238 ft | 97 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 44 ft | 152 ft | 178 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 44 ft | 159 ft | 138 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 12 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 50 ft | 179 ft | 107 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 13 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 50 ft | 167 ft | 156 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 14 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 28 ft | 178 ft | 214 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 15 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 28 ft | 205 ft | 223 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 16 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 79 ft | 292 ft | 279 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 17 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 69 ft | 220 ft | 153 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 18 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | 322 ft | 146 ft | 287 ft | $20 |
| Upper Lehman | 2 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 23 ft | 302 ft | 110 ft | $20 |
| Upper Lehman | 20 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 53 ft | 173 ft | 92 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 21 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 57 ft | 240 ft | 60 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 22 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 51 ft | 202 ft | 55 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 23 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 51 ft | 152 ft | 62 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 24 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 53 ft | 157 ft | 46 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 23 ft | 288 ft | 131 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 4 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 57 ft | 340 ft | 199 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 5 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 25 ft | 383 ft | 236 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 6 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 25 ft | 383 ft | 258 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 7 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 49 ft | 343 ft | 302 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 8 | standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 86 ft | 296 ft | 132 ft | $20 | |
| Upper Lehman | 9 | standard nonelectric | 16 ft | 86 ft | 289 ft | 59 ft | $20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower Lehman Creek CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 0.5 mi
Baker Creek CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 2.0 mi
Grey Cliffs CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 2.2 mi
Wheeler Peak CampgroundGreat Basin National Park · 3.0 mi
Snake Creek Primitive CampgroundsGreat Basin National Park · 6.1 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
Upper 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 →