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Season: mid October to April Elevation: Sea Level Fee: $14 Sites: 106 Water: Yes Tables: Yes Fire Pits: Yes Toilets: Flush RV Hookups: NO Dump Station: Yes
Nice campground. We just stayed one night in early January 2024. $16 a night. It serves its purpose and is a nice jumping off spot for nearby attractions.
There’s a part of the campground that is very beautiful and a part that looks like a parking lot. Bathrooms were clean and had toilet paper, but no electricity, so bring your headlamp. Also, each spot has a fire pit with a grill and a picnic table.
$16 a night for dry camping with a fire pit, picnic table, and bathrooms with flush toilets. There are no showers. We arrived Sunday afternoon in late October, and most spots were empty. Make sure to walk up the hill behind the campground for a great view in all directions. Yes it is basically a gravel parking lot with no trees, but it looked better than Sunset campground across the street. It's a bit further back and higher elevation than the road, so you have a bit of a view.
No cell service with T-Mobile. Full bars but very slow service with Verizon, barely enough to use Google maps. Verizon also got service at Stovepipe Wells gas station, but otherwise a lot of the park is a dead zone.
Campsite in Death Valley NP. The sites are gravel so bring a hammer and cushioning. The camping site has flush toilets with sinks. Also, drinking water. The site is tent only so should have no RVs. Each site has picnic table and fire pit. This is a first come site, you pay at machine there and place receipt at site. Rangers do check sites daily. Nice site.
Great Death Valley campground! It costs $16/night (verses $14 at Sunset which is just a gravel parking lot). There are several bushes and interesting rock formations all around the site. Bathrooms with running water, and there is a big dish washing area (6 stations) near each bathroom. Camp hosts are very friendly volunteers, and it's close enough to the Furnace Creek Visitor Center to have fairly good cell reception.
Only warning is the wind! From 1am until dawn the wind would kick up to about 50mph for a few minutes, then calm down to 1mph for a 5-10 minutes...that cycle was all night! Bring a tent that is good in wind, stake it down tight, and maybe put it close to your car to help act as a windshield.
