Camping near Caliente, Nevada

Camping near Caliente at a glance

Public campgrounds

3 (1 BLM, 1 National Forest, 1 State Park)

Getting a site

1 reservable and 1 first-come

Cost

1 free; lowest posted fee at Kershaw-Ryan State Park: "$15/night + $10 hookup fee ($20 non-NV)"

Distance from Caliente

4.2 miles (Kershaw-Ryan State Park) to 71 miles (Cherry Creek Campground) in a straight line; 1 within 15 miles

Elevation

4,505 ft (Kershaw-Ryan State Park) to 6,660 ft (Cherry Creek Campground), 3 of 3 on record

Season

1 open all year, 1 seasonal with posted dates

Campsites

23 across the 2 campgrounds that state a count

RVs

1 take RVs; hookups at Kershaw-Ryan State Park

Drinking water

1 of 3

Distances are straight-line miles from Caliente'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 Caliente

• Cathedral Gorge State Park, 13 miles from Caliente in a straight line , State Park , reservable ($15/night + $10 hookup fee ($20 non-NV)); listed under camping near Panaca.
• Echo Canyon State Park, 22 miles from Caliente in a straight line , State Park , reservable ($15/night + $10 hookup fee ($20 non-NV)); listed under camping near Pioche.
• Beaver Dam State Park, 24 miles from Caliente in a straight line , State Park , reservable ($15/night ($20 non-NV)); listed under camping near Panaca.
• Meadow Valley Campground, 30 miles from Caliente in a straight line , BLM , first-come (free); listed under camping near Pioche.

Things to do near Caliente

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

• Caliente Hot Springs, a hot spring whose mapped point is 1.9 miles from Caliente; soaking details on swimholesmap.com.
• Kershaw-Ryan Canyon, at Kershaw-Ryan State Park (4.2 miles from Caliente): The campground sits in a canyon with walls up to 700 feet, fed by a spring-fed pond with a seasonal children's wading pool and 14 miles of hiking and mountain biking trails. Rattlesnakes are present in summer and the canyon carries a flash flood risk.
• Kershaw-Ryan State Park, its campground is 4.2 miles from Caliente; publiclandsdb.com has its hours, entrance fee, and boundary.
• Cathedral Gorge State Park, a state park whose mapped point is 13 miles from Caliente; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Mathews Canyon Dam, at Mathews Canyon Dam (18 miles from Caliente): An Army Corps of Engineers earthfill flood-control dam completed in 1957, 63 feet tall with an 800-foot crest, built to protect the railroad and the lower Muddy River basin. Its pool has risen as high as 5,454 feet (January 11, 2005).
• Elgin Schoolhouse State Historic Park, a state park whose mapped point is 20 miles from Caliente; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Clover Mountains Wilderness, a wilderness area whose mapped point is 21 miles from Caliente; its permit and camping rules and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Echo Canyon Reservoir fishing, a fishing water whose mapped point is 22 miles from Caliente; stocking record and species on fishypedia.com.
• Echo Canyon State Park, a state park whose mapped point is 22 miles from Caliente; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Echo Canyon State Park, a swimming hole whose mapped point is 22 miles from Caliente; swimming details on swimholesmap.com.

Supplies and emergencies near Caliente

Nearest emergency room: Grover C Dils Medical Center, 700 N Spring St, Caliente, NV, 1.7 miles from Caliente , (775) 726-3171. Next nearest: Mesa View Regional Hospital, 1299 Bertha Howe Ave, Mesquite, NV, 62 miles, (702) 345-4280. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.

Groceries

• Great Basin Foods supermarket · 2.3 miles
• Shell convenience store · 11 miles
• Panaca Market supermarket · 12 miles

Fuel

• Sinclair fuel station · 2.8 miles · (775) 726-3189
• Shell fuel station · 11 miles · (775) 728-4461 · Hours 24/7
• Sinclair fuel station · 20 miles

Laundromat

• Thee Laundry laundromat · 2.3 miles

Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Caliente: propane, RV dump station, potable water fill, pharmacy, 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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