Cottonwood Cove Campground
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- Right now
- Harmful Algae BloomCaution naming this campground · nobody has said
- Sites
- 45All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Cottonwood Campground is located near Searchlight, Nevada, along Lake Mohave. 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.
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…fire pits and/or grills. Restrooms and water spigots are located throughout the campsite.”
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
What you actually pay
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 · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Cottonwood Cove RV ParkLake Mead National Recreation Area · 0.4 mi
Katherine Landing RV ParkLake Mead National Recreation Area · 20 mi
Katherine Landing CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 20 mi
Willow Beach CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 27 mi
Willow Beach RV ParkLake Mead National Recreation Area · 27 miPacksaddle Recreation SiteKingman Field Office · 30 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Searchlight, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 61°F, day 89°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 44°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
what threatens it · who answers for it
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cottonwood Cove Campground is in Nevada’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Susie Lee (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →