Pleasant Valley Campground provides year-round fishing in the Owens River and the Diaz Lake Campground offers an 80-acre lake for fishing and water sport recreation. Fishing license is required. Shore fishing is allowed all year round.

Pleasant Valley Campground

This is the most scenic former gravel pit you could ever hope to stay in, located on the same road that leads to the camping by the river. In season, the friendly host takes great care of the vault toilets, and there is trash and recycling collection. No water, but hey, it's $2 a night!

Review for Pleasant Valley Pit (BLM)

There is Pleasant Valley Campground, and if you cross the street and drive a little bit in you can get to Pleasant Valley Pit. This place has no shade, no trees, but amazing view of the Sierras. Dogs are allowed. Bathroom available. And is only 2$. This place is also close to other attractions like hot springs, Happy Boulders area and local hikes.

You will find mostly two groups of people: rock climbers and fishers. Around 20 min drinking from Bishop, it makes a convenient place to relax from your recreational activity or road trip. Sunsets are amazing.

Under the stars, next to the Sierra

Not sure else what you'd come here for. Great rock climbing across the 395, but PVR is mostly for the float tubers. There is an awesome little wild trout section where you can get a hold of the colors of the sierras, otherwise the reservoir is a steep sided sketchy lake. Don't bring your dog. The land kinda just moves around as you approach the sides, whole area is marked enter at own risk by LADWP. Bring sunscreen, year round it gets deathly hot out down here. The sites are well distributed around a creek.

Great for fishing, Escaping the Snow 

If you need you Camp/Fish the Eastern Sierras and it’s winter(So Everything above Pleasant Valley Is closed) then this is the Campground for you. Vault Restrooms &amp; Water are available and you camp right along the Owens River.

It’s can get windy in the winter and hot and buggy in the summer. The Campground provides little shade, but has excellent views.

Great Winter Camping

Came in august and experienced some pretty strong winds in the evening, very few campers even on the weekend, sunsets and sunrises were extremely pretty. 

Clean, Pretty, Cheap…

Went up and camped here for 3 nights before thanksgiving to snowboard. It was a great experience the campground was one of the most quite I’ve been in besides blm land. Everyone there was very respectful. Setup and went riding for the day and came back to some kindling split and a small bundle of wood at the site. The temps dropped to about 19F at night but the days there got up to around 65. Almost no light pollution so the night sky was beautiful. Even got a couple shooting stars one night. 

Snowboarding and camping

I was here in March 2023 and there were very few people camping. I was exploring the Volcanic Tablelands area so this was the perfect spot.

  

Clean restrooms (vaults), picnic tables and fire rings. Level campsites were fairly exposed to the wind, but the bluff to the north helps some, lots of room for big RVs, but mostly nothing to separate you from your neighbor.

  

The campsites on the south side of the river had some grass area, north side was pretty barren.