General Park Information:
Davis Creek Regional Park is a 297-acre Washoe County park with a restroom.
Amenities Include:
62 overnight campgrounds (with hot showers) and RV area, picnic area, barbecue area, pond (non-motorized boats allowed), self-guided hiking/walking trails, volleyball, horseshoes, horse trails (access to the Toiyabe National Forest), bird watching, and fishing.
View the slideshow to see some of this park's amenities!
Submission Box for Personal Stories/Photos:
Do you have personal photographs or stories about this park and are willing share your memories with your community? Then click here (for gmail account users) or here (if no gmail account) to upload your photos and/or stories.
If you have a photo 10 years or older of this park, they could potentially be used in an exhibit in our traveling Parks Rephotography Project photo collection! How exciting to have your memories on display!
Click here to learn more.
history
biodiversity
Typical Flora and Fauna:
The following are a few of our favorite highlights.
See the community submission section below to view additional wildlife sightings found at this park, and submit you own favorite naturalist sightings on iNaturalist here!
Flora:
Fauna:
community submissions
Biodiversity Submissions:
Community Stories and Photos:

Your Name
Davis Creek Regional Park
Tell us your stories about this park or share your photographs to add to the growing record of our shared park history!

Your Name
Davis Creek Regional Park
Tell us your stories about this park or share your photographs to add to the growing record of our shared park history!

Your Name
Davis Creek Regional Park
Tell us your stories about this park or share your photographs to add to the growing record of our shared park history!
volunteer highlights
Davis Creek Park History Researcher
Patti Poston
Patti Poston is the History Researcher for this park. She has dedicated time to research and document the history and geology information of this park featured above. Thank you Patti for your commitment to our parks and historic preservation!
Volunteer Researcher:
To learn more about volunteering for this Project, click here.

Enjoy history? Then consider volunteering as a History Researcher today!
Like plants and animals? Then volunteer as our Biodiversity Researcher!
Researchers Needed:
resources/more info

General Park Resources:
-
Washoe County: Davis Creek Regional Park, General Information.
-
Washoe County: Davis Creek Camping Information.
-
Davis Creek: Facebook Page.
-
All Trails information on hiking: Davis.
-
Nevada Department of Wildlife: Davis Park Information and Lake Information.
-
New to Reno: Davis Creek.
-
Nevada, A World Within. A State Apart: Washoe County Davis Creek Park.
-
Bonanza, Scenery of the Ponderosa: Davis Creek Park.
-
“Davis Creek Regional Park, Washoe County, Nevada” by Axel Drefahl.
-
NoeHill Travels in the American West: Nevada, “Winters Ranch.”
-
NV Markers: “The Winters' Ranch (Rancho Del Sierra).”
-
Nevada Historic Markers in Washoe County: Winters' Ranch.
Park History Resources:
-
Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology: “Structural Geology of the Truckee Meadows.”
-
Carson City History: “SLIDE MOUNTAIN, NEVADA 1983.”
-
Reno Gazette Journal: Article on Slide Mountain.
Geology/Slide Mountain Resources:
