Las Vegas Bay Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 14:12 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 8683 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Las Vegas Bay Campground is located just minutes from Las Vegas on the western edge of the park. 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. Keep reading
Recreation
Las Vegas Bay is a location where you can quickly get away from the hustle and bustle of the city to just relax and enjoy the outdoors. Bluffs Trail is a well-defined trail leads along the bluffs with grand views overlooking Las Vegas Wash. The trailhead starts next to site #72 in the campground. This area is ideal to bird watch, so be sure to bring your binoculars and camera. Air tour noise may be present throughout the day. There are no services within walking distance and no access to the lake. However, trails, launch ramps, fishing piers, marinas and restaurants can be reached by car in about 20 minutes.
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
Las Vegas 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. 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. • Site capacity maximum is eight persons and four tents or one camping unit (motorhome/camp trailer). • 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. ## 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 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 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 hammocks or other items from plants/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
- 86 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 86 of 86 campsite records
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 86 of 86 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Coast
- Amphitheater
- Backpacking
- Hiking
- Stargazing
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- Yes
47 of 84 sites open on Sat, Oct 17read 14:12 UTC
recreation.gov lists 83 of the 86 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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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
86 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 82 mapped sitesAll 86 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 84 of the 86 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. 83 of the 86 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LVB | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 971 ft | 116 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 787 ft | 454 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 10A | type not stated | 826 ft | 457 ft | |||
| LVB | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 768 ft | 396 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 12 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 735 ft | 313 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 13 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 705 ft | 248 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 14 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 672 ft | 178 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 15 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 707 ft | 176 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 16 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 687 ft | 129 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 17 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 705 ft | 115 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 18 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 733 ft | 152 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 19 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 769 ft | 177 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 898 ft | 87 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 20 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 798 ft | 208 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 21 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 830 ft | 241 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 22 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 876 ft | 290 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 23 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 949 ft | 395 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 24 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 948 ft | 420 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 25 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 615 ft | 185 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 820 ft | 122 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 38 | standard nonelectric | yes | 45 ft | 605 ft | 70 ft | $20 |
| LVB | Site 39 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 605 ft | 115 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 4 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 765 ft | 152 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 40 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 571 ft | 110 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 41 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 602 ft | 173 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 42 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 570 ft | 168 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 43 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 621 ft | 212 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 44 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 601 ft | 238 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 45 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 648 ft | 265 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 46 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 637 ft | 303 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 47 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 676 ft | 337 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 48 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 656 ft | 371 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 49 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 695 ft | 403 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 793 ft | 107 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 50 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 678 ft | 454 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 51 | overnight shelter nonelectric | 34 ft | 712 ft | 471 ft | ||
| LVB | Site 52 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 841 ft | 416 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 53 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 726 ft | 537 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 54 | standard nonelectric | Flush Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| LVB | Site 55 | standard nonelectric | Flush Toilets listed | $20 | |||
| LVB | Site 56 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 691 ft | 511 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 57 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 718 ft | 530 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 58 | type not stated | 768 ft | 442 ft | |||
| LVB | Site 59 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 828 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 6 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 809 ft | 95 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 60 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 819 ft | 273 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 61 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 780 ft | 208 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 62 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 759 ft | 253 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 63 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 732 ft | 196 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 64 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 715 ft | 238 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 65 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 707 ft | 194 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 66 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 679 ft | 234 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 67 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 689 ft | 210 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 68 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 655 ft | 243 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 69 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 676 ft | 233 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 7 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 833 ft | 105 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 70 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 648 ft | 257 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 71 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 627 ft | 283 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 72 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 626 ft | 300 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 73 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 661 ft | 261 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 74 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 671 ft | 289 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 75 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 733 ft | 201 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 76 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 728 ft | 245 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 77 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 847 ft | 176 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 78 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 829 ft | 220 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 79 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 915 ft | 192 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 8 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 845 ft | 483 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 80 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 904 ft | 234 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 81 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 983 ft | 217 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 82 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 977 ft | 257 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 83 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,036 ft | 229 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 84 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,042 ft | 270 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 85 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,078 ft | 267 ft | $20 | |
| LVB | Site 9 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 821 ft | 556 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 26 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 613 ft | 240 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 27 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 548 ft | 227 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 28 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 550 ft | 271 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 29 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 499 ft | 272 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 30 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 502 ft | 304 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 31 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 439 ft | 328 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 32 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 418 ft | 290 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 33 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 483 ft | 225 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 34 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 538 ft | 114 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 35 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 543 ft | 150 ft | $20 | |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 36 | standard nonelectric | yes | 42 ft | 584 ft | 73 ft | $20 |
| LVB - No Generator Use Area | Site 37 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 585 ft | 115 ft | $20 |
25 of 86 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Boulder Beach CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 7.4 mi
Boulder Beach Group CampsitesLake Mead National Recreation Area · 7.4 mi
Lake Mead RV VillageLake Mead National Recreation Area · 7.6 mi
Callville Bay CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 8.2 mi
Callville Bay RV ParkLake Mead National Recreation Area · 8.3 mi
Willow Beach CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 22 miLocated just minutes from Las Vegas off Lakeshore Road within the park between near the city of Henderson, Nevada. Take Lake Mead Parkway east to the park entrance. Follow the road about 2.5 miles. Turn left onto Lakeshore Drive and take your first left onto Las Vegas Campground Road. You’ll arrive at the campground in about 1 mile.
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
Las Vegas Bay Campground is in Nevada’s 1st congressional district. Its representative, Dina Titus (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. 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 86 of 86 campsites here”