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First come, first served campground located at sea level. The Stovepipe Wells campground has views of Death Valley proper and of the Mesquite Flat Sand Dunes. It is adjacent to the Stovepipe Wells general store, ranger station, and a privately operated RV park. Fee is paid at the pay station at the front of the campground.
Located on CA190 just 24 miles (39 km) west of Furnace Creek.
First-come first-serve.
Rv camping has full hookups. Be aware that water pressure is really low sometimes. It was handy to fill up water bottles when nothing comes through. Power and sewer were good.
Showers are across the street by the pool. Gas station is right in your backyard. You can use their restrooms when the line from the tourbusses is not too long.
Night sky is amazing for those of us from a city and rare see more than a handful of stars. You are a short drive from mesquite dunes and hope you get there for at least one sunrise or sunset.
The campground in Stovepipe Wells Village is a great stop when driving through Death Valley.
The campground is located behind the general store.
The space is wide open so don’t expect any shade. the beauty of camping here? It provides you a great view of the stars in the night sky.
The campground provides plenty of hook ups for RVs. However, I did not see any area that was for tents only. It looks like the campers using tents only would be next to the campers in RVs? If so, it might get a bit loud from the generators running overnight?
I did not have the opportunity to check out the restrooms on the campground. However the restrooms at the back of the general store were very clean on this Thursday evening in February 2021. See photo. Kudos to the operating team for maintaining those restrooms well.
The campground hosts were very nice! They know DV well and gave ideas for places to visit too including stopping to see the Pup fish, which we probably might have otherwise missed!
The campground itself had lots of ravens swooping about. We watched them attack a fellow campers table when they walked away for only a few minutes. Very annoying and they are protected animals in the NP. The RV parking is a gravel parking lot with sites very close and didn't seem to have hook-ups. Camping sites are very open so it's not a very private camping experience. There are picnic tables with each tent site and you'll be setting up on the sand (as it's near to the Sand Dunes), so a bit tricky to secure a tent. We used some rocks to help with that. There is also the option of walking to sites a bit back further in the sandy areas too, but there wasn't much privacy there either. We were glad to be there when it was basically empty of fellow campers, because it would have been too much if the place was busy.
There is a General store and gas station at the entrance, and it's pricey, but it will meet your needs for items forgotten and snacks. Lots of souvenirs of Stovepipe too if you're interested. The store is not part of the NP campground but they welcome all passersby of course!
There is a bathroom with flush toilets, a dish washing station, and we were told drinkable water at the campground. There is no hot water or showers at the campground, but there's a sign on the door that paid showers were available nearby.
It was only $16 to camp, but we probably wouldn't choose to stay at this campground in the future. Texas Springs and Emigrant were better in our opinion.
