Sacramento Pass Recreation Area

We stayed here over the Memorial Day weekend. The site comes up 2 miles before the actual pass when approaching from the Utah side. There are sites where you first pull in and additional sites following the road up. There’sa great stocked pond full of rainbow trout that’s great for the kids. One of the darkest places in the US, incredible nightly viewers of the stars. Very exposed and no cell service with Verizon, but plenty of space for our 33’ bumper pull.

Huge spaces spread out around a small fishing pond, awesome views, covered picnic tables, firepits, vault toilets, and trash service – and it’s all FREE. Wow. We were super impressed with Sacramento Pass BLM campground. There are only 6 sites in the lower loop so we were a little worried about getting a spot - we pulled in on a Thursday afternoon and had the entire lower loop to ourselves! A few more spots filled up after dark, but it was lovely, quiet and peaceful.

There is an equestrian area with 4 campsites, a small corral and access to trails about a mile further up the gravel road (I walked it so maybe it’s not a mile, but it felt like it!). It also has terrific views and is much further away from Hwy 50. Although after dark there is hardly any traffic and we were not bothered by road noise in the lower loop either. The equestrian area appeared to be popular, two of the three spots were taken there. Note: if you stay in the upper equestrian loop you’ll need to pack your garbage out and deposit it in the cans in the lower loop.

The campsites were clean and the grounds were well maintained, with the exception of the tent pads. Some had quite a bit of prickly vegetation growing on them. It didn’t affect us, but something to note if you’re tenting.

The Sacramento Pass Trail leaves from the campground area. I would love to have stayed longer, but we had a commitment elsewhere and had to move on. I would certainly stay again and recommend this stop right off Hwy 50.

The only downside, we had no Verizon service. Hmmmm…one night with no political rants/tweets/requests for money, that might be worth an extra star. 😊

Since moving out west I would have to say this was the nicest free site we stayed at (we have paid for worse). Each spot had a covered picnic table and grill. There was a nice pond with deck and a pit toilet. We had a great time at Great Basin and surrounding state parks. We will be back and for sure stay here again. Not sure how others had service but my Verizon phone had zero service as did my wife’s with TMobile. Road is somewhat close but I had no issues with the noise and we were the second spot from the road.