Established Camping
Mill Creek Recreation Area
About
Bureau of Land Management
The Mill Creek Campground is a fantastic place to stop and have a picnic, talk a walk, listen to the creek or set up camp for a few days. Located roughly 30 miles south of Battle Mountain, Nevada, the Mill Creek Campground strikes a nice balance of being immersed in the outdoors but is close enough to town if you forgot something for the camping trip. The Mill Creek site was originally a CCC camp, Civilian Conservation Corps, which was a public work relief program developed to help with unemployed during the Great Depression. Through the course of its nine year in operation, 3 million young men participated in the CCC program, which provided them with shelter, clothing and food, together with a wage of $30 per month. The Mill Creek CCC Camp was eventually shut down when the program ended and was soon after identified as a recreation area and has been that way ever since. Today, roughly 30,000 people visit the Mill Creek Campground each year to enjoy the natural beauty and proximity to other incredible recreation activities available in northeastern Nevada.
Adventure is at Your Fingertips
Access
- Drive-InPark next to your site
- Walk-InPark in a lot, walk to your site.
- Hike-InBackcountry sites.
Stay Connected
- WiFiUnknown
- VerizonUnknown
- AT&TUnknown
- T-MobileUnknown
Site Types
- Tent Sites
- RV Sites
- Standard (Tent/RV)
Features
For Campers
- ADA Access
- Trash
- Picnic Table
- Phone Service
- Toilets
- Alcohol
- Pets
- Fires
For Vehicles
- Pull-Through Sites
Great for what it is
Nothing spectacular but a nice empty and clean spot to stop.
2 bathrooms - one I saw was clean Multiple trash cans Multiple fire rings Sites have tables Stream going through, next to sites kept it a little cooler Some sites have good tree shade
I saw no cow poop as mentioned by someone else. There’s were a few cows about a mile before we got here.
Make sure you take 305 south from battle mtn to avoid 15 unnecessary miles on a dirt road.
You could fit a trailer here but bigger ones will have trouble. Super easy for vans and trucks.
bird haven
quiet, remote campground with clean running water from the creek which supports a grove of trees and plentiful songbirds
If you like 💩 this place is for you!
I’ll give it two stars because this place is free, but in this park a great deal of it has an enormous amount of cow and horse poop. Now, we are from the country, so we aren’t afraid of a little livestock poop, but this campground possesses about 1 turd per square foot. That’s a little excessive for us lol. Smells wonderful as well. No water or dump. Decent ATT. Many of the sites are severely unlevel, so we did not attempt to stay, but even if we could have leveled the wife would not have stayed here because of the level of manure and the flies created by them.
I don’t see other people mentioning the turds, so maybe they only graze there in September. Seasonal creek gone by this time of year as well.
Location
Mill Creek Recreation Area is located in Nevada
Directions
The Mill Creek Recreation Area turnoff is located 20 miles south of Battle Mountain, Nevada on State Route (SR) 305 and is signed. From the turn-off you will travel four miles on a maintained gravel road to the recreation site entrance.
Address
50 Bastian Rd
Battle Mountain, NV 89820
Coordinates
40.35589393 N
116.99357982 W