Open March 1 to October 31
High-Use Seasonal Period: Memorial through Labor Day

Sites: 76 Full / 56 Partial
Check in: 1 PM to 8 PM
Check out: 11 AM
Maximum Electrical: 50 amps

Directions:
From Reno, take U.S. Hwy. 395 south 60 miles to Hwy. 208. Turn east (left), and travel 20 miles to the town of Smith, Nevada. Go through Smith 2 miles, and turn north (left) on Hudson Way. Travel 3 miles on Hudson Way to the resort.

In the Smith Valley of far western Nevada, with the Sierra Nevadas claiming the western horizon, Walker River Resort sits among an oasis of lush trees in this high western-desert country.

The West Walker River runs along part of the resort’s boundaries and offers anglers an excellent chance to catch rainbow trout. There are five Nevada casinos within a 25-mile radius of the resort, and within an hour’s drive is the Reno-Tahoe area where there’s more nightlife than can be fit into one vacation. To the northwest, visit Lake Tahoe, the largest alpine lake on the North American continent. It’s 12 miles wide, 22 miles long, and holds almost 40 trillion gallons of water, enough to cover the entire state of California to a depth of 14 inches.

Tahoe lies in a basin between the main Sierra Nevada and the eastern offshoot of the Carson Range, about two-thirds in California and the rest in Nevada. Most of the surrounding area is comprised of the national forests of Eldorado, Tahoe, and Toiyabe, with mountains rising more than 4,000 feet above the shoreline.

In the Eastern Sierra, visit Bodie State Historic Park, where you’ll get a good idea of what life was like in a mining camp during the late 1800’s gold boom. Some 150 buildings in Bodie have been preserved in a state of arrested decay, making it the only ghost town preserved in its natural state.

To the west of the resort is the Yosemite National Park, which Scottish-born author and preservationist John Muir called, “the grandest of all the special temples of nature I was ever permitted to enter — the sanctum sanctorum of the Sierra.” He dedicated much of his life writing about and preserving this pristine wilderness. With its 360 miles of primary roads and 750 miles of trails, it is a place of unusual beauty that attracts three million visitors each year.