Emigrant Campground

If driving southbound up Towne Pass from Stovepipe Wells Village, and the car begins to overheat from the grade, swing in here to spend the night. It is about nine miles southwest of Stovepipe, on Highway 190, near the cutoff to Emigrant Canyon. Emigrant Campground is free, open all year, and sits at just over 2,000 feet above sea level (especially pleasing if it is 136 degrees on the salt flat below).

This is a tent-only campground with only ten sites, water, tables, and, get this, flush toilets. No fires allowed, no fuel available, but great views to be had northward towards the sand dunes and northern Death Valley Wash area.