Silver Springs Beach Campground

We camped at Cove 5 and it was so peaceful and beautiful. The bird watching was great. We enjoyed the herons, egrets and pelicans in particular. The closest neighbor was far away across the cove. The bugs were minimal in October. Even though it was the Monday of a holiday weekend there was almost no one here. This will be our spot on our future AZ to OR trips.

The campground is very nice and developed and there are flush toilets. But the bugs are insane like nightmare fuel insane. There is no bug spray that works and they are everywhere it's really awful to have such a nice area ruined by bugs. And it's the whole park area not just the campground even by the check in station there are sooooo many bugs.

Obviously this is a bad time of year to go camping it seems

It’s a Long Drive To the Campground, But overall, Great place to stay. The sunsets are Amazing !! We’ve got full cell signal. No hook ups, but I wasn’t expecting them either. The staff recently trimmed the trees and around the campsites so it was clear for our 33’ fifth wheel. There is a Water Spicket near the bathrooms.

At the intersection of NV-339 and US-95 ALT there is a fairly new Golden Gate gas station in Yerington. They’ve got the best prices for diesel. They’ve got Propane, a Dump Station and Water if you ask. Easy in and out for us. Diesel is on the end pumps 🤷🏼‍♀️ and the truckers side is on the back side of the store so we’re not in their way nor are they in ours.

We go camping because the kids love swimming in the lakes, Lahonta or Silver Spring Beach are bad this year, we went yesterday 8/3/22 the lake I’d drying lots of plants coming up in the water and has algae looks green just bad we paid the entrance they should have a sign so people know before we pay, we drove around to find a better spot but definitely not nice for swimming so we got back in our truck and came back home sad specially the kids, we only saw one RV, camps where empty. Every year we go all areas are full not this year so sad. :(

We’ve been here before in Oct and had great temps, an empty park and beautiful fall colored trees. June is hot and windy but we came late just for a stop over. If you’re a NV resident it’s $15 instead of $20. This is a nice park with easy access for large rigs. Many sites are large. Needs repaving but sites are decent. Lake was low and there were boondockers lining the shore. It was quiet at night.

This was just a one-night travel stop for us. A little disappointed because the lake-reservoir was almost empty. Also, the Nevada State Park website claimed Open All Year, but we found signs posted indicating the improved campground was closed. It was late, we were tired and there were no physical barriers, so we set up and stayed anyway. We saw one Ranger truck, but no one hassled us. There are tons of dispersed camping sites outside the improved campground and these areas ARE probably open all year. Water was available at standpipes, in the improved campground, and at the dump station but restrooms were locked (for the season? or due to COVID-19).
The dump station was a little narrow but doable for us (25’ TT).
The area is well off the highway so completely peaceful. Due to altitude, it did freeze overnight.
We had two bars LTE on both ATT and Verizon.

On our cross country trip, we stopped here to camp.

It was quite a ways off the main road, but that’s a plus in my book. It was quiet, very peaceful.

Bathrooms were clean, the sites were easy to get in and out of, and all in all it was a good stay.

We don’t plan on visiting Nevada again anytime soon, but if we did we’d camp here again.

It is a nice spot to get away and stay on the beach. Be careful where you drive, we saw a guy get stuck in the mud and had to be pulled out. We camped on beach 3 because it was far away from the party goers and loud music. Bathrooms are clean with a pit toilet. They do have one small camping area with paved roads, which was pretty full. I think this would be better in the spring when the lake is full and there is less algae and mud.