Temple Bar Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:35 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 7169 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Temple Bar Campground is located along the eastern portion of Lake Mead in Arizona. 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 campsites. 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. Vegetation provides some shade. Visitors enjoy coming here for the peace, solitude and pristine night skies. Keep reading
Recreation
Enjoy the Temple Bar area by land or water. Hike through the desert along the Temple View Trail to observe the crystal blue waters of Lake Mead and the natural temple that changes colors throughout the day. Launch your own boat or rent one from the marina. You can also dine at the seasonal cafe, or grab a variety of snacks, drinks and charcoal from the store. Picnic tables and grills are located near the store. Although there are no beaches at Temple Bar, it's a great place to rent a boat and find your own secluded beach or cove where you can spend the day fishing, soaking in the sun and wading along the shore.
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 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. Temple Bar is remote, making it an ideal location to view the night skies. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (702) 293-8906.
Nearby Attractions
Temple Bar is remote, which is what makes it so special. The Las Vegas Valley; Kingman, Arizona; and Route 66 are about 90 minutes away. In these areas, you can find museums, restaurants, stores and a variety of entertainment options. Grand Canyon West is about 2 hours away.
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). ## 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 in the park 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 trees and bushes. • 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
- 71
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 70 of 71
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 69 of 71 campsite records
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no showers.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 69 of 71 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Paddle Boating
- Ranger Station
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- Yes
124 of 138 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:35 UTC
recreation.gov lists 69 of the 71 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 15:35 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
71 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 69 mapped sitesAll 71 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 69 of the 71 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| HOST SITE | Site 51 | type not stated | 2,015 ft | |||
| HOST SITE | Site 62 | type not stated | 2,099 ft | |||
| TB | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 1,800 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,688 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,719 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 12 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 1,647 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 13 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | 1,587 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 14 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 1,608 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 15 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 1,596 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 16 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 1,636 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 17 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,625 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 18 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,661 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 19 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 1,679 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 1,821 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 20 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 1,721 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 21 | standard nonelectric | 97 ft | 1,908 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 22 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,930 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 23 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,961 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 24 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,896 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 25 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,922 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 26 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,875 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 27 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,908 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 28 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 1,862 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 29 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 1,899 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,767 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 30 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,848 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 31 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 1,873 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 32 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,819 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 33 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 1,846 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 34 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,770 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 35 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 1,707 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 36 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 1,533 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 37 | standard nonelectric | yes | 31 ft | 1,503 ft | $20 |
| TB | Site 38 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 1,533 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 39 | standard nonelectric | yes | 55 ft | 1,510 ft | $20 |
| TB | Site 4 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,789 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 40 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,564 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 41 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 1,556 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 42 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 1,612 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 43 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 1,610 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 44 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 1,667 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 45 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 2,037 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 46 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 2,033 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 47 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 2,038 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 48 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,990 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 49 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 2,014 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 1,747 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 50 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 1,967 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 52 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 1,961 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 53 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 1,947 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 54 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 1,970 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 55 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 1,906 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 56 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,827 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 57 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 2,124 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 58 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,094 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 59 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,134 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 6 | standard nonelectric | yes | 62 ft | 1,774 ft | $20 |
| TB | Site 60 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 2,096 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 61 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 2,134 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 63 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 2,139 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 64 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 2,130 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 65 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 2,077 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 66 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 2,094 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 67 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,045 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 68 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 2,016 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 69 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 1,974 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 7 | standard nonelectric | yes | 53 ft | 1,763 ft | $20 |
| TB | Site 70 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 1,938 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 71 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 1,916 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 8 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,720 ft | $20 | |
| TB | Site 9 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 1,741 ft | $20 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 71 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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Callville Bay CampgroundLake Mead National Recreation Area · 24 miLocated along the eastern portion of Lake Mead in Arizona. Access from the south from Kingman, Arizona, or from the north from the Las Vegas Valley. The Temple Bar Road turnoff from U.S. Highway 93 is 50 miles north of Kingman and 18 miles south of the Nevada/Arizona border. The campground is about 26 miles from the turnoff to Temple Bar.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Meadview, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 58°F, day 84°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 37°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
Temple Bar Campground 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 69 of 71 campsites here”