Sacramento Pass Recreation Area

What a gem! BLM has clearly dedicated some resources to this campground in recent years.

We stayed in the upper campground which has three back-in sites that afford much more privacy than the sites in the lower campground. This is the perfect place if you’re looking to get away from noisy campgrounds and don’t mind not having much of a cell signal. The sites weren’t incredibly level, but nothing an Anderson leveler couldn’t fix.

The sites were clean with little left-behind trash (let’s keep it that way!) and the pit toilets were well stocked with TP and also clean.

Plenty of hiking and biking trails from the campground. We rode the Mine Loop Trail on our MTBs and was a beast of a trail: lots of technical up and down. The sunsets were beautiful and the night skies were incredible.

Great Basin NP is about a 15-minute drive away and is also free! If you head into Baker be sure to check out Kerouac’s Cafe and their little market. The closest full grocery store is in Ely, so be sure to stock up, or plan for a 45-minute drive to get there. Great Basin NP has a dump station, and that appeared to be the closest, outside of Ely.

Please remember to Leave No Trace!

We arrived early on a Saturday afternoon and all of the lower sites were open. We decided to drive up to the equestrian use area and are glad we did. There is a large site in the middle that was taken by a large motorhome then three other back in sites and we took the only one open closest to the pit toilets. Never noticed any foul smells. Beautiful dark night skies. We left to go into Ely and when we returned late that night, the whole campground was full! Very quiet except for the motor home running their air conditioner all night! Great boondocking site!

Really nice quiet place, probably the best free camping spot I’ve been in. There are 5 lower spots with a group site and 3 upper spots. We were in a lower site right off of highway 50, road noise was minimal. Big sites with really nice shelters, picnic tables, bbq grill and fire pit ( fire ban in effect while there). There are mountain biking trails right from the campsite, pretty technical but beautiful. There is a small pond at site which our dogs loved. This is a first come spot and they get taken quickly, others will come and park in non designated spots but this wasn’t really a problem there is lots of space. No cell service.

There is absolutely no cell service for T-mobile or Verizon with a booster. Not sure why the other reviews say there is. We didn’t stay the night because of this (need to work) but this looks like a pretty legit spot otherwise. Just wanted everyone to know there is no cell service on these two providers. The town Baker has ok T-mobile service but absolutely no Verizon.

Spent one night at this BLM campground. Our site (5) was level enough for our 22-foot RV. I saw larger RVs and trailers parked at other sites and all looked level. There is an upper campground with a few more sites. A couple of campers chose to park in the general parking lot.

I highly recommend staying at this campground particularly if you are visiting Great Basin National Park - about 20-25 minutes away.

We stayed here for a night on our way through Nevada. It was close enough to Great Basin National Park that we were able to do a few hikes the day we arrived.

The second loop that’s further away from the road was full but there were a few open campsites in the first loop. The road noise wasn’t bad and there weren’t many cars driving by at night.

We didn’t get any cell service through Verizon, but we did get a bar of LTE with AT&T. It wasn’t fast but it was usable.

If there aren’t any campsites open when you arrive you can stay in the large parking area near the entrance. There were even some people camping along the dirt road between the first and second loop.

The campground is at a very high elevation and it’s a lot colder than the surrounding areas. If you are here in early spring or fall, make sure you check the weather because it may be freezing at night.

Even though Great Basin National Park is the main reason for camping here the surrounding area is actually really beautiful. You can see Wheeler Peak in the distance and there are lots of cool rocks and nature to explore in and around the campground.