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Bureau of Land Management · AZ

Lake Havasu Shoreline Sites

First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: the sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Get directionsWhat it costs, and the rules
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$10From, per site
Photos · BLM
460 ftElevation
75 ftWater · Lake Havasu
4.8 miNE of Cienega Springs, AZ
n/aTree cover · water-masked cell
Bortle 3Night sky · 157th darkest of 262 in AZ

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

The Lake Havasu Field Offices manages 73 boat access campsites over 20 miles along the Arizona shore of Lake Havasu. These campsites offer a picnic table, barbecue grill, and trash receptacle and a majority of the sites provide a restroom and shade structure. These sites offer the opportunity to enjoy the recreational opportunities on the lake overnight or just for the day. These sites are available on a first-come, first serve basis and there is a 14 day stay limit in place. Whether you're planning a single visit or coming back multiple times a year, enjoy the convenience of purchasing a pass before you arrive to cover recreation-related fees at Bureau of Land Management sites. Learn more about site-specific digital pass options at Lake Havasu Shoreline Sites and buy your pass .

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Beach
Boating
Fishing
Paddling
Picnicking
Swimming
Water sports
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Reservation →

Nothing to book, just show up

One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $10 with nothing added. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.

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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
A night$10Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$20DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itBureau of Land Managementthe agency’s record
Directions
Every line of the receipt · 11

What you actually pay

The sign priceBureau of Land Management
A night, from$10
These sites are $10 a day and an additional $10 a night for up to 6 individuals.
Each additional person is $2.
There is no fee for children under 16 years of age.
The paid overnight fee is good until 9 AM the following day.
There is an annual pass for the Shoreline Sites valued at $100 and is good for a year.
Both passes may be purchased online or you may deposit day use fees into the iron ranger and purchase the annual pass at Lake Havasu Field Office.
Stay limitA 14 day stay limit is in place.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$10
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$20

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($10), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.

How we know this receipt · 5
Sign price: Derived by CAMPANAC from the Bureau of Land Management fee record: a stated per-night amount only · Sep 7, 2026
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Coordinate34.30045, -114.13672
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight68°Mostly Cloudy
Saturday83°Mostly Cloudy6% rain
Saturday Night68°Mostly Cloudy10% rain
Sunday82°Mostly Sunny1% rain

NWS forecast for Parker Strip, AZ

Source: National Weather Service, PSR forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 63°F, day 89°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 43°F. Bring the bag rated for it.

120°30°

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.

Measured at: PARKER RESRVOIR, CA (USC00046699), 2 miles away and 278 ft higher
Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Paul Gosar, official portrait

Lake Havasu Shoreline Sites is in Arizona’s 9th congressional district. Its representative, Paul Gosar (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Bureau of Land Management publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.25 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 262 rated federal campgrounds in Arizona · Sep 8, 2026
Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model
Cell signal: the BLM’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: inside Parker Strip, AZ (a census designated place). Straight line.
Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026