How to find great Sierra camping without crowds

By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal

It’s not that Kimberly and Patrick Wilkes don’t like you.

They just don’t want to look at your messy campsite or listen to you snore when they’re trying to enjoy nature.

And to show it’s nothing personal, they presume you don’t want to spend your camping trip in the shadow of their tent either.

That’s why the husband and wife team from Gardnerville spent two years visiting 3,416 campsites in the Eastern Sierra and Death Valley and rated each by the level of privacy it affords.

Their efforts resulted in a guidebook, “Eastern Sierra and Death Valley Camping with Privacy.”

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