South Ruby Campground

Camp host hadnt been there in days. Our spots were taken. Would like refund

Lance, campground host, is the man.

Clean place and quiet.

The campground was perfect for this location. We could see the marshes from our camp. The campground, restrooms, and roadways were all well-maintained. The descriptions of the camps on the website were accurate. The camp host was very helpful and friendly. Water and ice was available. If you like birdwatching, this is an excellent place to spend a few days.

We had made reservations for site #18 at South Ruby Lake on the Recreation.gov reservation site and paid $42 by credit card, and got verification email. However, when we arrived at the campground, site #18 was occupied by a group of Duck Dynasty type dudes with a tent trailer and a loud generator, and NONE of the sites in the campground were marked reserved. The listed fee on the board at the entrance was $8/night, and presumably would be 1/2 off with the geezer pass, so we were charge about 5 times the actual rate for a site someone else was occupying. The campground manager apologized, but he had not been told to reserve ANY sites and there were plenty of vacant ones, possibly due to an inch or two of 1” hailstones arriving in a severe thunderstorm the same time we did. I am going to try to get a refund from recreation.gov, but not hopeful. The campsite itself was pretty nice other than the above, beautiful setting, clean restrooms. Some of the campsites did kind of flood with the severe thunderstorms, lucky #13 seemed pretty bad although when dry looked a nice site. We had some great birdwatching in the wildlife refuge the next couple of days between thunderstorms.

Our first family camping trip in Nevada and May I say it was just what the Dr. order!! If you want to get away and off the beaten path then this is the campsite for you.

We stayed in spot #22 and it was WONDERFUL! It's a nice big spot, had plenty of room for our giant tent, and for the family to gather for dinner. The campsite was clean and quiet other than some shenanigans in a camp down the road. The restroom proximity was great, except for the smell. If they had recently pumped the tanks in the restroom I would have given this experience all the stars! The location is beautiful, the trees have grown and give a good amount of shade, and it's not far to some fantastic fishing!

We regretted that we moved fro Thomas Canyon to South Ruby campground to try it out. Was a rough drive to get there over Harrison Pass Rd, the "lake" is actually marshes and not quite what we expected (was still cool to see and great fishing). The bugs were very very bad (flies and horse flies that resulted in lots of bites). The campground "manager" was not there at all the first day we arrived. When we arrived, our campsite had the wrong name on it making us confused as to whether our booking was correct or not. It was annoying that there was nobody there to ask questions to about it. The site across the way was full of trash (probably because there were no trash cans provided that we could see). We booked 2 days but only stayed one day and left (back to Thomas Canyon) since we were not enjoying ourselves.

Great campground to serve as home base for fishing the marshes. Evenings cool off nicely for sleeping. The upper loop has more shade than the lower loop.

We love camping here. There isn’t a lot of shade, bathroom is clean and so is the campground.