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Kalamazoo Campground
Humboldt-Toiyabe Nat'l Forest - Ely Ranger District

Kalamazoo campground is located on the east side of Kalamazoo Summit in the north Schell Creek Range.  Access is from a fair dirt road, not traversable by low clearance vehicles (4WD not necessary in dry conditions).  From the west, the grade is quite steep down the summit (but a beautiful drive), the best access is from the east.

The campground is not signed but it is obvious once you get there.  It's in a large opening with a pit toilet house.  There are only 2 sites located here, each with a picnic table.  It appears like there used to be more, but that is all that was there at review time.  You could primitive camp in the rest of the campground if these two sites were full.  In fact, you could set up quite a large group camp here.  Enough room for about 30-40 people.

Both sites are located along Kalamazoo Creek.  Each has decent shade forested with piñon pine, junipers and cottonwoods along the creek.  There are a few scattered spruce.

There are a handful of primitive camping sites farther up the canyon, one with a picnic table (probably moved from the campground).  These are nicer in a denser aspen and spruce forest.  This whole area is remote and seldom visited.  I did see trout in the creek a mile below the camp.  Reviewed 07/2001.