South Fork State Recreation Area — Attraction in Spring Creek

Beautiful lake... fishing not so good... busy and packed during weekend... quiet after ten pm.

We stayed the week of June 25-July 2, 2018 at South Fork State Park in the waterside beach camping area. We were in our motorhome and have the Nevada Senior Pass which gave us our site for free.

Sites have covered picnic tables, fire rings and grills. These sites are right along the water. That was nice because our view out our door was beautiful lake! Rather than side to side sites, these are end to end. That is good because we did not see our neighbors out our windows!

This campground had boat ramps and vault toilets but no fresh water nor RV dump. Although there were signs to keep pets on leash, that rule was, unfortunately, rarely kept nor enforced. We had several dogs come to our door!! We also had a noisy and profane neighbor!

Water and RV dump facilities were available at the east campground and near the visitor center.

We will go back to South Fork State...

South Fork State Park is a great campground near Elko Nevada. If you camp in the north campground, there is electric hookups at each site. The fee is $25.00 per night. There are flush toilets and FREE hot showers. There are potable water spigots around the campground.There is also a boat ramp, group campground and Ranger Station on the north end. On the south/west side there are 2 campgrounds. The fee is $15.00 per night. Both campgrounds are beach side. There is no potable water and no showers on that side, only pit toilets. You can drive to the north side and use the showers. This is a great place to boat, jetski, swim and fish. Would camp there again. It does get very windy and...

I was fishing South Fork Reservoir and it was a late bite I caught one nice big trout wait about 3 and 1/2 lb and that was the only fish I lost a couple good bites I'm not going to see where I caught my fish I caught it from the shoreline all's I know and tell anybody that fish is there use powerbait salmon Peach it's one of the best it has a good scent and with water level is high as it is you have to cast way out there from the store unless you're and a deep hole area and my secret to is using ultralight fishing line was a little heavier weight 4 to 6 lb what size 14 hook treble hook and the fish a lot of power and took a long time. Run and didn't want to give up...