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Located close to Lake Tahoe, Truckee, and Reno, Martis has a beautiful, peaceful campground off the beaten path. Martis Creek area features hiking, biking, canoeing, kayaking, and catch and release trout fishing.
Fishing, kayaking, canoeing, walking, bicycling, picnicing. And of course camping.
Vault toilets, potable water available at campground entrance, ampitheater.
Mountains, alpine valley, pine trees, lake, wild animals.
Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Northstar, Reno, Virginia City
As per Recreation.gov policy.
From State Highway 267, turn onto Martis Dam Road. Continue on Martis Dam Road for approximately 1.2 miles. Tur miles. Turn right a 0.2 miles to the campground entrance. You have now arrived at the entrance to Alpine Meadows Campground.
Payment will be made through Recreation.gov
If you want short distance access to Tahoe and minimal people, this is a good spot to camp. Similar to country camping with little amenities. The nearby airport may disrupt your peace though.
Fantastic campground for a quick getaway near Tahoe. Excellent paved pads for the RV, great bear proof dumpsters, quiet neighbors. Loads of room between sites too. A most excellent place to see the stars at night. I will for sure have this on our next trip itinerary.
No electric or water, but they do have public bathrooms and fire pits. I saw lots of pop ups, tents and a few RVs like ours.
Nice quiet little loop, very spacious campsites. Might have trouble with a big rig here, pull off areas are a little small. No services, but the gentle breeze kept us comfy all night. Close to Truckee and 80
Really clean and easily accessible campground in a great “in-between” location that offers easy access to Truckee or a quick drive to Lake Tahoe proper. Was mostly larger rvs and groups but it suffices just fine for my smaller motorcycle and camp setup. Not many bugs when I was there in early June as well.
Friday nights offered a decent show of jets flying in and out of the airport which I thought was pretty fun, noise wasn’t an issue!
Restrooms were basic but useable, and there was clean potable water available at many locations around the site.
