Lower Lehman Creek Campground
The Quick Take
Lower Lehman Creek is Great Basin's quiet basecamp — a tiny, intimate loop with fewer than a dozen sites tucked under water birch and aspen along a genuine mountain creek. The trade-off is real: you get year-round access and a location just minutes from Lehman Caves, but you give up flush toilets, potable water, and basically every modern amenity. This is vault-toilet-and-bring-your-own-water camping, full stop. The upside? At twenty bucks a night with only a handful of neighbors, you are about as close to having a personal campground as the national park system offers. The creek provides a constant white-noise soundtrack that drowns out everything except the Steller's jays arguing overhead. Choose this spot if you want a no-frills home base for caving and peak-bagging without the relative bustle of Upper Lehman or Wheeler Peak campgrounds.
Booking
Reserve Your Campsite
All 9 sites are reservable.
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Sites & Setup
RV Information
RVs allowed. No electrical hookups.
Accessibility
1 ADA-accessible campsites. Accessible restrooms available. The main road of this campground has paved parking areas for cars and campers. The campsites are gravel and dirt with some steep surfaces. Paved Roads - All vehicles OK
Pro Tips
Fill every water container before you leave the Lehman Caves Visitor Center — there is no potable water at this campground, and the creek water needs treatment. The visitor center is only 2.5 miles down the road, but that round trip gets old fast.
Book a Lehman Caves tour for the morning of your arrival day, then drive straight up to camp. The cave stays a cool 50 degrees year-round, and doing it first means you can spend the rest of your trip on Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive without backtracking.
This campground stays open through winter when Upper Lehman and Wheeler Peak close, making it the only game in town for winter stargazing. Great Basin holds an International Dark Sky designation, and cold winter air means some of the clearest skies you will ever see — pack layers rated to single digits and a camp chair you can tilt back.
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Directions
On Wheeler Peak Scenic Drive, 2.5 miles from the Lehman Caves Visitor Center.
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