Dispersed RV/Trailer Camping in Death Valley

Thank you for all that information. We have a very low clearance trailer. :\ Darn it. Warm Springs might be our best bet.

Off Pavement - Great info. Maybe I can take my son back there another time with our 4WD and a tent :C

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Last year abouit this time, we camped in the Wildrose campground and were the only campers for 3 days. Saw lots of wild burrows in the area!

I've seen rental RVs and towables camped at Warm Springs camp along Warm Springs Road on the east side of the Panamint mountains. There is water here so be sure to camp the proper distance from it... even a swimming pool there (not that you'd use it!).

The road to Ibex mine going north near Saratoga Springs has numerous dispersed sites.

Furnace Creek Road that runs south of Shoshone, CA (hwy 127) NW to hwy 178 outside the park has numerous good boondocking sites. The road isn't heavily traveled and is in good shape 'till you hit Greenwater Canyon on the north side of Hwy 178.

The southern most road in the park heads into the Owl's Hole mountains. Not many folks head that way. There is a nice spring up the road where you usually can find wild burrows, and an old mining area. If you are more adventurous, at the end of the road is an abandoned micro wave tower with nice views in all directions.

Echo Canyon not too far from Furnace Creek would work. Must be 1 mile off the highway. This canyon has the rather extensive Inyo Mine ruins a few miles up the road.

In the NE corner of the park not too far from Goldpoint, NV, there is BLM areas adjacent to the park as well as unlimited areas within the park. Only seen one vehicle in this area the times we've been up that way.

As mentioned above, high clearance is pretty much required. Our class C will do the areas I've mentioned, but be prepared for washboard roads with berms you may have to shovel down to cross when pulling off the more maintained roads.

For adventurous boondockers, DVNP has some really remote spots!

My 2 cents, I've only been there once, and I'm a chicken when it comes to damaging my equipment.

The USFS's idea of dispersed camping, at least in that park, is a modified jeep and a tent... or one of those million dollar "expedition" vehicles that could probably survive driving through lava.

All those roads they've disallowed are nice drivable dirt. The rest of the roads are very uneven high clearance only trails. I suppose if you have an off-road TT, like one of those Aussie marvels, and a stout jeep you'd be OK. I got nervous just driving my "off road capable" Ram 1500 4x4 down a few of them... my humble TT would never make it.

As I recall, West Side road has a lot of Jeep trails heading West from it. Each trail head was signed, as to the trail allowing camping or not, it was about 50/50.

Keep in mind, to park "off" the trail, you'll need to somehow drive over a 12-18" high shoulder of boulders - at least, I found this shoulder on every trail I was brave enough to drive down.