Timber Creek Campground

Timber Creek Campground is located in Duck Creek Basin, high on the Schell Creek Range, in eastern Nevada. It sits at an elevation of 8,500 feet, approximately 25 miles from the small city of Ely. Visitors to the area enjoy hiking, horseback riding, fishing and off-road vehicle riding, among other activities. Timber Creek is a perennial stream with rainbow and brook trout fishing. The High Schells Wilderness can be accessed from a trailhead a half-mile up the road, and access to the Ranger OHV Trail lies below the campground, for off-highway vehicles, horseback riding, mountain biking and hiking. The 30-mile Success Loop Scenic Drive runs through the Duck Creek Basin with views of the surrounding high desert and mountain terrain. The campground has five group campsites, which serve varying sizes of groups between 25 and 100 people. Some sites require a short walk from the parking area, on a bridge over Timber Creek, to reach the site pad. All sites have picnic and serving tables, a campfire ring and a grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. This is a pack it in, pack it out site, with no trash collection service. The campground is situated in a dense forest of Engelmann spruce, aspen and white fir trees, which offers partial shade and beautiful fall color, and Timber Creek flows past it. The High Schells Wilderness sits immediately adjacent and has multiple peaks greater than 11,000 feet in elevation. Nearby, Ward Charcoal Ovens State Park has interesting historic stone ovens and an interpretive trail, the Northern Nevada Railway in Ely has a museum and offers train rides, and Cave Lake State Park is a few miles south of Duck Creek Basin along the Success Loop Road.