Echo Bay Campground
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- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:27 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 3634 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Echo Bay Campground is located in the northern end of the park along the Overton Arm 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. Some sites have views of the lake, and vegetation provides some shade. Keep reading
Recreation
The Echo Bay developed area has a small picnic area, boat launch and store that sells amenities. Anglers enjoy coming to this area to fish along the many coves that can be accessed by foot or boat. A fish cleaning station is located near the picnic area.
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 to the Echo Bay Upper Campground on the left.
Natural Features
There is a mix of palm trees, oleanders, mature cottonwood trees and native vegetation that help provide shade and privacy between sites. Wildlife in the area includes many species of birds and lizards along with antelope squirrels and the occasional coyote. Some sites have a view of the lake. Echo Bay is remote, making it an ideal location to view the night skies.
Nearby Attractions
There are many adventures to be discovered from Echo Bay, including the Redstone Picnic Area, the historic once-flooded town of St. Thomas, Rogers Spring, Blue Point Spring and the Valley of Fire State Park.
Charges & Cancellations
If you need to cancel, please cancel as soon as possible through Recreation.gov so availability is opened up to others.
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. • Site capacity maximum is eight persons and four tents or one camping unit (motorhome/camp trailer). ## 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. • Each site can have a maximum of two motorized vehicles, four motorcycles or a combination thereof if towed or carried on or by a camper. • Motor vehicles must be parked in designated parking areas only and may not be driven onto the dirt or across irrigation ditches. • The campground can accommodate RVs, but there are no hookups. • Camping is limited to a total of 90 days at Lake Mead 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. • 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 may be available onsite to offer assistance. Wireless internet (WIFI) is not available at any campgrounds managed by Lake Mead National Recreation Area ~ Phone service works best by the Echo Bay Ranger Station. Other parts of the area have limited to no cell service~
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 36
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Water access
59 of 68 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:27 UTC
recreation.gov lists 34 of the 36 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 37 reservable sites only. This campground also has first-come sites, and recreation.gov publishes no availability for a site you can’t reserve.
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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.
“If you need to cancel, please cancel as soon as possible through Recreation.gov so availability is opened up to others.” · 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 15:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
37 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 34 mapped sitesAll 37 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 37 of the 37 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. 33 of the 37 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Echo Bay | EB Site 1 host | host pad | 497 ft | 465 ft | |||
| lower | EB Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 113 ft | 585 ft | 82 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 517 ft | 203 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 12 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 450 ft | 270 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 13 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 196 ft | 641 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 14 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 219 ft | 683 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 15 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 221 ft | 709 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 16 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 206 ft | 743 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 17 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 178 ft | 769 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 18 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 216 ft | 732 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 19 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 266 ft | 657 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 2 | type not stated | 514 ft | 418 ft | |||
| lower | EB Site 20 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 242 ft | 618 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 21 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 302 ft | 426 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 22 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 360 ft | 379 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 23 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 418 ft | 342 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 24 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 459 ft | 287 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 25 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 425 ft | 302 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 26 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 420 ft | 250 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 27 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 467 ft | 190 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 28 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 435 ft | 202 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 29 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 477 ft | 158 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 3 | type not stated | 534 ft | 363 ft | |||
| lower | EB Site 30 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 443 ft | 186 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 31 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 462 ft | 158 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 32 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 417 ft | 213 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 33 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 448 ft | 188 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 34 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 432 ft | 240 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 35 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 418 ft | 292 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 36 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 398 ft | 355 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 37 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 396 ft | 410 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 4 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 568 ft | 296 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 558 ft | 227 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 6 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 568 ft | 187 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 7 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 617 ft | 141 ft | $20 | |
| lower | EB Site 8 H | rv nonelectric | yes | 48 ft | 574 ft | 124 ft | |
| lower | EB Site 9 | standard nonelectric | yes | 61 ft | 585 ft | 65 ft | $20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Echo Bay RV ParkLake Mead National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
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Callville Bay CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 20 mi
Temple Bar CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 20 mi
Las Vegas Bay CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 27 miLocated along the northwestern portion of Lake Mead along Northshore Road. Access from the north from Overton, Nevada, or Valley of Fire State Park, or from the south from the Las Vegas Valley. The Echo Bay Road turn off is 10 miles south of the Northshore Entrance Station and 40 miles north of the Lake Mead Parkway Entrance Station. The lower campground is about 5 miles from the turnoff to Echo Bay.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Moapa Valley, NV
Typical weather
Typical October night 58°F, day 83°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
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
Echo 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 →