Camping near Austin, Nevada

Camping near Austin at a glance

Public campgrounds

6 (5 National Forest, 1 State Park)

Getting a site

1 reservable and 5 first-come

Cost

4 free; lowest posted fee at Bob Scott Campground: "Single Site $10 per night ($5 with a senior or access pass)"

Distance from Austin

4.9 miles (Bob Scott Campground) to 51 miles (Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park) in a straight line; 2 within 15 miles

Elevation

6,875 ft (Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park) to 8,600 ft (Columbine Campground), 5 of 6 on record

Season

1 open all year, 5 seasonal with posted dates

Campsites

44 across the 5 campgrounds that state a count

RVs

3 take RVs; no hookups on record; longest stated RV length 35 ft (Bob Scott Campground)

Drinking water

1 of 6

Distances are straight-line miles from Austin's point in the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2025), not driving distances. Every other fact comes from each campground's own sourced record, linked from its page.

More campgrounds within 30 miles of Austin

• Kingston Campground, 19 miles from Austin in a straight line , National Forest , first-come (free); listed under camping near Kingston.

Things to do near Austin

Public land and water within 30 miles of Austin, the public land its campgrounds sit in, and landmarks at those campgrounds, nearest first.

• Historic U.S. Highway 50 ("Loneliest Road in America"), at Bob Scott Campground (4.9 miles from Austin): Bob Scott Campground sits just off Historic U.S. Highway 50, nicknamed the "Loneliest Road in America," a few miles east of Austin, Nevada.
• Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, all 6 campgrounds here sit inside this national forest, the nearest Bob Scott Campground at 4.9 miles from Austin; publiclandsdb.com has its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary.
• Kingston Canyon and Groves Lake, at Big Creek Campground (11 miles from Austin): Big Creek Campground provides direct access to Kingston Canyon and Groves Lake via Forest Service Road 002, a scenic canyon drive and lake south of the campground.
• Spencer Hot Springs, a hot spring whose mapped point is 17 miles from Austin; soaking details on swimholesmap.com.
• Groves Lake fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 18 miles from Austin; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Toquima Cave pictographs, at Toquima Cave Campground (26 miles from Austin): A half-mile Cave Trail leads from the campground on stone steps to a rock shelter with red, yellow, black and white pictographs painted by ancient Shoshone people; projectile points found here date to about 600-1300 CE.
• Toiyabe Crest National Recreation Trail (San Juan Trailhead), at San Juan Dispersed Campground (28 miles from Austin): San Juan Dispersed Campground sits at the San Juan Trailhead, the access point for the Toiyabe Crest National Recreation Trail through the Toiyabe Range.
• Arc Dome Wilderness and Toiyabe Crest National Recreation Trail, at Columbine Campground (44 miles from Austin): Columbine Campground sits at the Columbine Trailhead, with direct access to the Arc Dome Wilderness and the Toiyabe Crest National Recreation Trail.
• Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, its campground is 51 miles from Austin; publiclandsdb.com has its hours, entrance fee, and boundary.
• Ichthyosaur Fossil Shelter, at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park (51 miles from Austin): A short trail between campsites 8 and 9 leads to a shelter housing fossilized remains of Ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles that swam a sea covering this area about 225 million years ago. The ghost town of Berlin, an 1890s gold mining camp, sits about 2 miles from the campground.

Supplies and emergencies near Austin

Nearest emergency room: Battle Mountain General Hospital, 535 S Humboldt St, Battle Mountain, NV, 79 miles from Austin , (775) 635-2550. Next nearest: Pershing General Hospital, 855 6th St, Lovelock, NV, 88 miles, (775) 273-2621. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.

Fuel

• Champs fuel station · 0.2 miles

Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Austin: grocery or convenience store, propane, RV dump station, potable water fill, pharmacy, laundromat, and ice. Stores, fuel, propane, dump stations, water fill, laundromats, and pharmacies are the nearest few mapped within 25 miles, straight-line, © OpenStreetMap contributors (data as of 2026-09-26; this extract under the ODbL). Hours are as mapped; call ahead.

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