Silver Canyon Dispersed Camping

Drove up past the rusty sign before the canyon entrance and turned left and stayed near the rock building. There are many sites for big rigs and the road is good. We did not drive into the canyon. Wasn't hard to level but sandy.
Clean, quiet and beautiful views with snow capped mountains in November. There were cars, tents and other rigs around but about 100 yards away.
We had 3 bars of Verizon with LTE.
There is a museum with old buildings as part of it in Law and we are going to investigate.
We will definitely stay here again.

This area has no signs or markings to show it’s BLM land but it seems like once Silver Canyon Road turns into a dirt road you can camp pretty much anywhere along it as long as you aren’t blocking anyone.

At first, we drove up to what is the main camping area that is on a small road that turns off to the left at the top of the hill by the base of the mountain. There were already a lot of people camping there. It’s very narrow and the two large campsites closest to the main road that were big rig friendly were already taken so we decided not to risk driving further with our trailer.

It ended up being a good call because after exploring the area in the truck we found that road just gets more narrow and doesn’t have a lot of good campsites for trailers but if you have a van or are a tent campers you might find a good spot.

It does end up looping around back to the canal that you cross right before the road turns into dirt so if you do drive down it you can eventually get out but there aren’t many places to turn around and you might get your RV scratched up from trees and sage brush.

We ended up backing our trailer into a good spot just past the rusted out sign on the main road. It’s probably one of the only good big rig friendly sites besides the two sites at the beginning of the main camping area road. There was a ton of glass we had to pick out of the campsite and there’s garbage everywhere in that area.

If you keep driving down Silver Canyon Road past the left turn to the main camping road you will get to a spot where water runs across the road and is not RV traversable. There is a large area to the right just before the water that could be a nice campsite for big RVs but it’s a bit of a risk since there wasn’t much room to turn around especially with a trailer. I would stop at the main camping area and walk up the road to make sure no one is in that spot before driving to it.

Silver Canyon BLM is just a few miles north of Bishop, CA which is an amazing little town with lots to do. The mountains to the west are full of hiking trails and lakes to explore. You can access the Ancient Bristlecone Pine Forest via Silver Canyon but you will need to have a vehicle with 4 wheel drive.

There were a lot of people driving into the canyon going really fast on Silver Canyon Road but it was a fairly peaceful place otherwise and we had good cell service. I did see a baby rattlesnake when I was walking on the road so keep an eye out for them and watch your pets.

The Arco gas station in town has a free RV dump station, potable water, and dumpsters. There are two nearby grocery stores and lots of restaurants as well.

This is a quiet and dark sky spot about 6 miles from Bishop. Silver Canyon road is a decent dirt road. I got in a tight spot and will have to back out. Not recommend for big rigs. I visited in January so other options were more limited. This is BLM land so is legal. I found a spot on the left side just past a big rusted out sign. The Verizon signal was very good and got a few TV channels including NBC.