Just outside of Winnemucca, the Water Canyon Recreation Area provides many different recreational opportunities including OHV usage. The trails leading from the recreation area go around the foothills of the Sonoma Range with offshoots that allow you to climb into the mountains along switchbacks and atop ridgelines. Scenic vistas await you at the top, and once you are finished cool down amongst the quaking aspens and cottonwoods that surround the stream throughout the campground. Expect lengthy hill climbs with many obstacles, and narrow wooded trails when driving along Whites Creek within Water Canyon.
Other recreational opportunities available from within the Water Canyon Recreation Area are camping, hiking, biking, and a 9-hole disc golf course. Mountain bikers (and other non-motorized travelers) have access to the Bloody Shins trail network from the campground that goes through the Santa Rosa Mountain Range.
For more information from the Bureau of Land Management's website, click Here.
Visit the Winnemucca Convention & Visitors Authority website for general area information, events calendar and things to do.
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Main Trailhead is a short 3 miles southeast of town. From Winnemucca Boulevard in Winnemucca, turn south onto Hanson Street, which turns into Water Canyon Road after 2 miles. Continue 2 miles on Water Canyon Road into the recreation area.
Camping is free within the designated sites up to the three-day limit, see the Bureau of Land Management for full list of rules and regulations.
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