Callville Bay Campground
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- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:12 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 5246 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Callville Bay Campground is located just minutes from Las Vegas along the northern edge of the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead. It’s open year-round and features paved sites that can accommodate tents or RVs, along with tables, fire pits and/or grills. Restrooms and water spigots are located throughout the campsite. Temperatures usually surpass 100F (37C) degrees June-August. In May and September, daytime highs are around 90F (32C). October-April, temperatures are much cooler. Lows can dip to freezing temps December-February. The area averages 4 inches of rain each year. There is lush vegetation that provides shade. A few sites provide views of the lake. Keep reading
Recreation
When you stay at Callville Bay Campground, you can enjoy the area on land or on water. A nearby shaded picnic area has cool grass, grills, restrooms and panels explaining the history of the area. Across the street, you’ll find the trailhead to the Callville Summit Trail. This 2.7-mile moderate hike requires a short climb, but yields a spectacular view of Lake Mead, Fortification Hill, the Hemenway Valley and the River Mountains. The Callville Bay Resort is within walking distance and has a dine-in restaurant and lounge, a café and store with many amenities. Down at the marina, you can rent boats by the hour or launch your own at the launch ramp. Although fishing and swimming are not allowed in the harbor where the marina is located, you can hike throughout the backcountry to find your own secluded cove.
Facilities
Each campsite provides space for up to eight people with one camping unit, i.e., motor home or camp trailer. A maximum of two motorized vehicles, four motorcycles or combination thereof if towed or carried on or by a camper may occupy a site. Paved roads lead to each site, and the sites are asphalt. There are multiple water spigots and restrooms spread out throughout the campground. The restrooms have sinks and toilets. There are no showers. Accessible sites are available. An RV dump station and water refill station are located near the entrance of the campground.
Natural Features
Callville Bay Campground has lush vegetation that shades nearly every campsite. There is a mix of palm trees, oleanders, mature cottonwood trees and native vegetation that also helps provide privacy between sites. A few campsites offer views of Lake Mead. Wildlife in the area includes many species of birds and lizards along with antelope squirrels and the occasional coyote.
Nearby Attractions
Located just minutes from Henderson, North Las Vegas, and Las Vegas, Nevada, where the attractions range from museums to mega resorts and casinos with headliner acts and an array of dining options.
Charges & Cancellations
Please have cancellations processed in the system three days in advance of your visit.
What the agency tells you
Lake Mead NRA does require an entrance fee in addition to camping fees. Entrance fees can be purchased on rec.gov or at entrance station locations. • The campground has a 1-person minimum/8-person maximum per site and one camping unit, i.e., motor home or camp trailer. (A maximum of two motorized vehicles, four motorcycles or combination thereof if towed or carried on or by a camper may occupy a site). ## Reservations are required for all sites through this reservation system and can be made the same day as arrival. Cash is not accepted, and sites can only be booked through rec.gov. • Motor vehicles must be parked in designated sites/parking areas only and may not be driven onto the dirt or across irrigation ditches. • Camping in the park is limited to a total of 90 days within any consecutive 12-month period. • Camping is limited to 30 days in any developed campground. • Quiet hours are 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. Please do not create or sustain unreasonable noise, including generators, during those hours. • All trash must be disposed of in appropriate trash or recycling receptacles. • Pets must be kept on a leash not to exceed 6-feet in length and should not be left unattended. Never leave your pet in a closed vehicle. Pet excrement must be disposed of in trash containers. • Please do not feed wildlife. Wild animals can become dependent on handouts of food and lose their fear of humans. This is dangerous for the wildlife and you. • Trees can provide refreshing shade and a windbreak for campers. It is illegal to cut or damage any tree in a national park. Please do not hang items from the trees. • Fires are permitted in grills, fire rings, portable stoves, portable barbecues and portable fireplaces in all campgrounds. • Fires should not be left unattended and must be completely extinguished with water, doused and stirred. • A campground host is available onsite to offer assistance. Wireless internet (WIFI) is not available at any campgrounds managed by Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 52
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Portable Toilets - year round
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Coast
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Hiking
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- Yes
38 of 46 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:12 UTC
recreation.gov lists 46 of the 52 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
OpenBooked
These counts cover the 52 reservable sites only. This campground also has first-come sites, and recreation.gov publishes no availability for a site you can’t reserve.
Watch for a cancellation
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 22
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
“Please have cancellations processed in the system three days in advance of your visit.” · this campground’s own terms
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 14:12 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
52 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 46 mapped sitesAll 52 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 52 of the 52 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 46 of the 52 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Callville Bay | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,353 ft | 224 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 1,349 ft | 61 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,358 ft | 103 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 12 | type not stated | 1,303 ft | 78 ft | ||
| Callville Bay | Site 13 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,312 ft | 115 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 14 | type not stated | 1,260 ft | 110 ft | ||
| Callville Bay | Site 15 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,269 ft | 139 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 16 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,223 ft | 167 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 17 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,187 ft | 123 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 18 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,182 ft | 136 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 19 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 1,142 ft | 84 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,393 ft | 222 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 20 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,141 ft | 112 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 21 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 1,105 ft | 62 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 22 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 1,065 ft | 66 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 23 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,062 ft | 121 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 24 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,022 ft | 98 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 25 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 1,017 ft | 155 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 26 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 983 ft | 134 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 27 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 970 ft | 186 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 28 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 919 ft | 198 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 29 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 887 ft | 198 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,437 ft | 207 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 30 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 898 ft | 169 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 31 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 930 ft | 136 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 32 | type not stated | 980 ft | 91 ft | ||
| Callville Bay | Site 33 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 973 ft | 99 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 34 | type not stated | 1,019 ft | 48 ft | ||
| Callville Bay | Site 35 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 1,017 ft | 70 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 36 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 1,062 ft | 64 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 37 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,125 ft | 69 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 38 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,108 ft | 88 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 39 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 1,174 ft | 117 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 4 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,429 ft | 154 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 40 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 1,154 ft | 124 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 41 | type not stated | 1,190 ft | 156 ft | ||
| Callville Bay | Site 42 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,234 ft | 118 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 43 | type not stated | 1,286 ft | 57 ft | ||
| Callville Bay | Site 44 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,284 ft | 79 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 45 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,330 ft | 58 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 46 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,373 ft | 66 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 47 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,396 ft | 57 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 48 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,349 ft | 99 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 49 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,381 ft | 99 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,467 ft | 171 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 50 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,329 ft | 136 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 51 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 1,361 ft | 146 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 52 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,311 ft | 176 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 6 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,440 ft | 111 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 7 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 1,446 ft | 140 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 8 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 1,389 ft | 73 ft | $20 |
| Callville Bay | Site 9 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,398 ft | 113 ft | $20 |
25 of 52 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Callville Bay RV ParkLake Mead National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
Las Vegas Bay CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 8.2 mi
Boulder Beach CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 8.2 mi
Lake Mead RV VillageLake Mead National Recreation Area · 8.3 mi
Boulder Beach Group CampsitesLake Mead National Recreation Area · 8.3 mi
Willow Beach CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 19 miLocated just minutes from Las Vegas off Northshore Road within the park and near the city of Henderson, Nevada. Take Lake Mead Parkway east to the park entrance. Take your first left onto Northshore Road. Follow the road about 11 miles. Turn right toward Callville Bay. After about four miles, the campground is on the right.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Henderson, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 58°F, day 88°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Callville Bay Campground is in Nevada’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Steven Horsford (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: B. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 52 of 52 campsites here”