Wildhorse Crossing Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $5From, per site
- Season
- May 1 – November 30Open May 1 through November 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Adjacent to the Owyhee (Oh-WHY-HEE) River, a trout stream lined with willows and native brushes. Fishing for trout in river is available. Wildhorse Crossing is located in the Owyhee Canyon on the Mountain City Highway north of Wildhorse Reservoir (fishing!) and is right along the Owyhee River (fishing!) and lots of good opportunities for OHV recreation and many two track and dirt roads for mountain biking, hiking; has two double restrooms, 20 sites, no water, and is $5 per night.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…has two double restrooms, 20 sites, no water, and is $5 per night.”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $5 with nothing added. 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 · 5
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($5), 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
Where it is
North Wildhorse CampgroundTuscarora Field Office · 4.6 miBig Bend CampgroundHumboldt National Forest · 11 miJack Creek CampgroundHumboldt National Forest · 16 mi
Wilson Reservoir CampgroundTuscarora Field Office · 23 miPine Creek CampgroundHumboldt National Forest · 26 mi
The Forks CampgroundJarbidge Field Office · 34 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Wildhorse, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 23°F, day 60°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical November night 16°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Wildhorse Crossing 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 →