West Gate Community Campsite
Community campsite · Westgate Community Conservancy · Westgate Community Conservancy
A drawing, because nobody has sent us a photograph of West Gate Community Campsite yet. Send five and this page changes the same week.
Budget
Outside the gate
Locally owned
The West Gate campsite is inside Westgate Community Conservancy, outside the reserves, so the conservancy is what you pay and Samburu National Reserve costs $85 per non-resident adult on any day you drive in. The conservancy has not published a camping rate, and the figure circulating on listing sites is somebody else's estimate. Ask Westgate directly, and ask what the fee covers.
Why you'd pick it
- Inside the conservancy rather than the reserve
- Community-owned, with the fee going to Westgate
- Nearest strip is Sasaab
What's here
- Self-catering
We could not reach a website for West Gate Community Campsite, so this list is incomplete by definition. Ask them directly.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Samburu National Reserve charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entrySamburu National Reserve; Buffalo Springs and Shaba charge $70.
- $85per person, per day
- VehicleA car under six seats at KES 800.
- $6per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $528 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
No published validity period. The counties do not state whether a ticket runs 24 hours or a calendar day, so a multi-day stay could be charged either way.
The full fee schedule for Samburu National ReserveRates
On request. A shilling figure circulates on a regional listing site and the conservancy has not published one, so we print none. Ask Westgate before you count on a price.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Checked in September 2026. This region publishes almost no rates in the open: nearly every camp hides its tariff behind an enquiry form or a PDF, and several operators' own websites were unreachable on the day we looked. Where that happened we say so and list the place as on request, because we only print a rate the owner has published. Agent and tour operator quotes are deliberately left off this page. County entry is extra everywhere: $85 per non-resident adult per day for Samburu National Reserve, $70 for Buffalo Springs and Shaba, and a conservancy fee instead of either if you stay outside the reserves.
Something this page does not answer?
This camp does not publish a rate, so the only way to a real number is to ask them or us.
Ask us. We answer questions about the park itself, and we can usually tell you which camps work on one route and who to write to. If what you want is a trip someone else arranges, we will say so and hand you to an operator we know, and we earn a commission if that becomes a booking.
Nothing on this site sits behind the form. Every figure we have is already on the page.