Your High-Desert
Base Camp

Nightly, weekly, and monthly stays are all available. Crews working a rotation can hold a site between hitches at the monthly rate, so you are not breaking camp every time you fly out.

Usually, yes. We deliberately hold sites back for drive-ups, and the board at the gate kiosk shows what is free tonight. Holiday weekends and the weeks around new moon are the exceptions worth booking ahead for.

Yes. Several smaller sites take vans, rooftop tents, and truck campers, and you get the same showers, laundry, and dark sky as the forty-footers. If you only need water or the dump station, those are available on their own.

Loop A takes pull-throughs up to 45 feet, which covers most fifth wheels and toy haulers with a dually in front. Loop B is back-in to 35 feet. Tell us your total length including the truck and we will assign accordingly.

Year-round. Water lines are freeze-protected at every pedestal and the roads get plowed. At 4,970 feet the nights get genuinely cold, so bring a rig that is set up for it and plan on skirting for a long winter stay.

Rachel has limited services, so treat this as remote country. The nearest full grocery and reliable fuel are roughly an hour out toward Alamo or Tonopah. Top off the tank and stock the pantry before you turn onto Highway 375.

Coverage varies by carrier and can be thin. There is a cell booster on site, and the southern sky is wide open for satellite internet, which is what most long-term guests end up running.

Yes. We sign for deliveries and hold them at the service building. Carriers reach us six days a week, and anything time-sensitive is worth a heads-up so we watch for it.

That is what the storage yard is for. It is fenced, lit, and available monthly or seasonally for RVs, trailers, work trucks, and equipment, with gate access whenever you need to pull something out.

Yes, leashed and picked up after. There is open desert to walk in right past the fence line — just keep an eye out for wildlife and desert heat, and never leave an animal in a closed rig in summer.

It is. Park lighting is low and points down, quiet hours start at 10 p.m., and on a clear moonless night you can read the Milky Way from your picnic table. Bring a chair and something warm.

Ask when you book. Outside sites on Loops A and B have open southern sky and room beside the pad for a tripod or mount, with pedestal power at hand so a long imaging session never touches your house batteries.

The week either side of new moon, whatever the season. April through October puts the galactic core high once astronomical twilight ends; winter gives up the core but returns steadier, drier air and a long, properly dark night.

We are an independently owned RV park on Highway 375, not affiliated with any government installation, agency, or mining company, and we make no claims about what does or does not fly over this valley. Plenty of guests come for the lore and the dark skies. What we actually guarantee is a level pad, 50 amps, and hot water.