Established Camping
Boulder Beach Campground — Lake Mead National Recreation Area
About
National Park Service
Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Overview
Boulder Beach Campground is located just minutes from Las Vegas along the Boulder Basin of Lake Mead. It___s open year-round and features large paved sites that can accommodate tents or large 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. There is lush vegetation that provides shade, and many sites have pristine views of the lake. Boulder Beach is about a 20-minute walk from the campground.
Recreation
When you stay at Boulder Beach Campground, you___ll have access to many recreation opportunities. Boulder Beach, Special Events Beach, Canoe/Kayak Beach and PWC Beach are 1-2 miles away. At these locations you can swim, kayak and jetski. If you prefer to explore the park on land, the River Mountains Loop Trail passes right by the campground. This paved trail is more than 30 miles long and leads to the Historic Railroad Tunnell Trail near the Alan Bible Visitor Center. Other nearby amenities include the Hemenway Harbor Fishing Pier and boat launch ramp. At the Las Vegas Boat Harbor or Lake Mead Marina you can rent a boat for a few hours or dine at the docks. Lake Mead Cruises is also nearby and offers cruises seasonally on the lake to the Hoover Dam and back.__ ~Air tour noise may be present at times throughout the day. Please check the park website at www.nps.gov/lake for updates on amenity closures.
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 or concrete. There are multiple water spigots and restrooms spread throughout the campground. The restrooms have sinks and flush 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
Boulder Beach Campground is like an oasis, because of the 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. Most campsites offer views of Lake Mead, Fortification Hill and the River Mountains. Wildlife in the area includes many species of birds and lizards along with antelope squirrels and the coyotes.
Nearby Attractions
The Hoover Dam is just minutes to the south along U.S. Highway 93. Nearby Boulder City has multiple dining, shopping and adventure options.
Charges & Cancellations
Please have cancellations processed in the system in advance of your visit when you can so that others may enjoy that site.
Fee Info
Location
Boulder Beach Campground — Lake Mead National Recreation Area is located in Arizona
Directions
Located just minutes from Las Vegas along Lakeshore Road within the park between the cities of Henderson and Boulder City, Nevada. Take U.S. Highway 93 into the Boulder Beach Entrance of the park. Follow Lakeshore Road 2 miles and take your second right. The NPS campground is on the left.
Coordinates
36.0207625 N
114.4807443 W
Access
- Drive-InPark next to your site
Stay Connected
- WiFiGood
- VerizonGood
- AT&TGood
- T-MobileGood
Site Types
- Tent Sites
- RV Sites
- Standard (Tent/RV)
- Group
Features
For Campers
- Market
- Trash
- Firewood Available
- Phone Service
- WiFi
- Drinking Water
- Toilets
- Alcohol
- Pets
- Fires
For Vehicles
- Sanitary Dump
- Water Hookups
- Big Rig Friendly
Beautiful site
We stayed at 90,it's beautiful here. Peaceful,roomy,and beautiful landscape.
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Nice Overnight with Bathrooms
Easy reservations on recreation.gov, great campsite with bathroom and water access. No showers, but the price was great. Will be back for a longer stay.
Lake Mead camping
We picked this campground for its proximity to a friend’s home in Lake Las Vegas; we enjoyed dinner with them and then headed to the campground (in the dark) for the evening.
For quite some time, there had been no sites reserved at all but when we took a closer look at it several weeks before our stay, we found that all the best sites had already been snatched up! IMO, the best sites are D77, 79, 81, 83, 85, and 87 (for the best views of the lake). Site D65 had a sideways view of the lake and was on the end of the loop (so there was some traffic passing by).
All sites were paved/concrete and mostly level. Sites were all in good condition. Many are back-to-back compromising privacy to a degree. A large concrete picnic table and fire ring complete each site. No hookups at all.
The restrooms were basic but clean. No hooks, shelves, paper towels or hand dryers, or SOAP but for $10 (with the senior pass) I’m not going to complain too loudly. There is a dump station. It looks like there is a swimming beach, but I did not check it out.
Overall, a very quiet campground(despite some generator use).
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Great campsite
$20 per night no electric but has water, a dump station and clean bathrooms Some trails for walking and cycling about a mile from the beach and 3 miles from Hoover dam 
Clean, spacious, great staff and shop
We enjoyed our time here, we had a spot overlooking the lake and saw the sunrise right in front of us, perfect!. It is quiet a way from the lake, and uphill on the way back, not walkable with all your picnic and swimming things. You can park lakeside but it's a rough road for RV's.
Staff were lovely, great little shop, nice T-shirts!
The laundry does not accept coins since covid, you can either download an App which didn't work on any of our 4 phones, or load a card to use in the machine, but needed to load a min of $25 to the card!!!. Madness. So couldn't do the wash we really needed (we were not willing to pay $25 for one wash!). This really needs sorting, several people we spoke to complained about it.
Also there is a weird set up in the shower area, there are no cubicles in which you can fit you and your clothes, you have to leave your clothes outside the shower. Not very private. There is another curtain which can be pulled across the 'changing area', but there are two showers, and if you don't know the person in the other shower you will still be sharing the changing area with them!! Needs updating.
Would recommend to pay for the front row lake view spots, worth the treat :-)
Easy to find, very clean, only 10 mins from Hoover Dam (worth seeing once in your life, go on the full 1 hr tour) and 25 mins from Las Vegas.
Sadly there is no watersports hire on the beach (or none we could find) but you can book boat trips ahead of time from the marina and kayak the Colarado south of Hoover Dam. Google search for providers.
Boulder beach
Nice clean campground the lake is about a 10 minute walk from the campground
Quiet with shade
Nice Campground with no hookups but the possibility do dump. Almost every slot has shade.
Spring Time Boulder Beach
Arrived here after an adventure drive from Washington, camping along the way.
We have family in Boulder City and having the space 46 at Boulder Beach was fabulous.
Could hang with family, then head back to the Campground. Beautiful area, Campground is fabulous, very quite actually. Desert flowers in bloom. Able to do some Day Triping around the area. Great location.
Great family outing
Again at Boulder Beach! This is a favorite spot. Never disappoints!
Nice spot
Good spot near Vegas. Would only recommend in the late fall to early spring months as there are no hookups and this place would cook in the summer.
Beautiful, well maintained
No full hookups, but water and dump on site! Love the views and how quiet it is. Being surrounded by eucalyptus trees was fragrent and beautiful.
Same great park!
We camp here regularly! Same great park but now has a reservation system that we like better. Although there are still 10 first come first served, the remainder are reservation only. Had a great time sharing thanksgiving with the family!
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We loved this place!
We stayed in the moon-RV park side. Much more roomy and shaded. Good cellular data with Verizon. You can use the RV park side laundry and store.
Have I said how much we love the place.
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Perfect little getaway
Took my kids and my mom camping for a little vacation away from the hustle and bustle of Las Vegas. I chose Boulder Beach campground as it was our first time and didn't want to be too far from home. It was perfect!! It was quiet, relaxing and no one was around us so it felt really secluded. At night we watched the bats flutter about and heard a lot of coyotes far off. When we woke in the morning, we had the most beautiful view of the lake. We absolutely loved it and can't wait to go again!! Only thing I wish we had access to were showers. There are bathrooms all over and water spigots really close to the campsites, but if you're tent camping plan ahead for no showers.
Favorite local campground
Stayed here for the second half of vacation. Lows in the 70s, highs in the 90s. Only thing is the new reservations required thing. Also did not see the camp host at all this visit. But it was still very pleasant.
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Large campground with limited amenities
I spent one night at this campground as I was passing through the area and assumed a campground this size would at least have shower facilities. It is a typical large more for RV than tent camping sites but was OK for a one night stay only because of the view (note only a few of the front sites have a decent view of the lake).
WiFi and Wildlife
The campground has lots of trees, vocal birds, and free WiFi. I saw a rabbit, hummingbird, and even a roadrunner!
My partner and I stayed here last night. This morning, we decided to stay another night, so we paid again. We were going to leave the campground to go hiking, so we took a photo of our receipt on the site post in case someone removed it. Sure enough, when we returned later, a couple were in our site. There was no receipt on the post, but they clearly had been there long enough to set up a pop-up shelter. I told them we had paid for the site. The man said they chose the site because it was empty. I mentioned their receipt wasn't displayed, and he said he just hadn't put it up, but I suspected he was lying, so I went to the camp host. The host I talked to was friendly, and said the other host was actually driving around, so she would meet us at the site. I returned to the site to see the man driving away, so I thought he might be going to pay. The camp host arrived and asked the woman where their receipt was. She said the man left to pay. I told the camp host what happened, and she said she had taken our receipt because the site was unoccupied. I told her we had paid, but she yelled at us that we hadn't left anything at the site, so we would have to pick another one. We had specifically chosen that site for shade and proximity to the bathroom. I explained that we sleep in our car, so we didn't have a tent or trailer to leave, but she just kept yelling at us. Ironically, she didn't seem to care much that not only had the other couple not paid at all, but they even lied about it. The camp host later apologized, but made excuses for her behavior. (The thieves didn't apologize.)
I would not stay here again due to the ridiculous "occupy rule," lack of amenities (no soap in bathrooms and no showers), and large amount of RVs (despite an RV village available nearby).
Also, Boulder Beach sucks. I sunk into knee-deep mud just walking into the lake.
Boulder Beach Campground
It’s a very large campground with a good amount of trees in some locations. There are plenty of bathrooms and places to get water, no showers though. Lots of places for RV’s to park, so keep this in mind when tent camping, there is a lot of people RV camping right next to you. I enjoyed the convenience of the location but it was not a quiet camp ground.
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Favorite local area
We live close by Lake Mead NRA and love to camp here for a quick wind down getaway.
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Pleasantly Suprised
Nice concrete pads with water and partial shade. Not too crowded. Beautifully groomed.
Beautiful Area
Camp has trees Pull through sites and back in sites. Campground full most of the time I was here in March
Best site yet
We went for a couple nites as a year end thing. To end 2020 on a good note. Found out quite a few spots, mostly pull thru, have their own water. This is a plus went wanting to leave the fresh tank empty for winter.
Very beautiful
It’s a very nice camp a little crowded but people give you your privacy. They have internet but you have to pay for it and can only use PayPal. Would love to stay here again!!
Curios
Just beginning
Clean and relaxing lots of shade
Nice clean quite camp with views of lake mead and mountains just a short walk to beach with cold clear water the park hosts are great and very helpful you will have fun
Heaven
Wonderful views of a beach that you can swim in 31 mile trail with other Trails off of it Hoover Dam it's about 6 mile walk from here super clean sites with clean bathrooms and great host say hi to Teddy she's the nicest
Beautiful Views!
This review is for Lake Mead - Boulder Beach Campground. Disperse Camping. No hookups. We chose site 87 as it is a back in site with a beautiful view of Lake Mead. Very level, paved site with some shade from the trees. Only stayed one night as the RV got to hot during generator quiet hours 10 pm - 6 am. We had to pick up some trash left behind by previous campers. AT&T and T-mobile coverage. Has running, walking, biking trails available. Near the Hoover Dam. We visited the Marina Restaurant one night for dinner and drinks. Good food and great service! Would stay longer in the fall/winter months.
There is a campground and RV Village next to eachother
The Dyrt has the listing for the same spot. There are two completely different areas, the campground site is directly next to the RV village. The campground has potable water spots throughout and is completely shaded with lots of foliage. The RV village has a few permanent residents, but there are many spots in the front, rear and side of the village for rv campers. There was no tent camping in the RV village, but you can tent camp in the regular campground next to it. The best spots are right in front of the village, which had at least 20 spots that are able to be reserved. Full hookups in the RV village. All front spots are on concrete pads, so no guessing if your rig is balanced. There is a little general store on property and its also where you check in. Went in the spring, when the weather isn't too bad at Lake Mead. You can walk to the lake, but it is a looooong walk. You can drive your vehicle right onto the lake shore and park directly next to the lake. I did this a few times when there. It was great to back up the truck, open the tail gate and sit right on the lake shore. Boulder City is a short drive with plenty of food and activities to check out.
Mothers day
Went camping for the first time in mothers day weekend and we had a gd time the campground is clean the bathroom are clean
Campground not the village
I purchased a travel trailer for my wife for her birthday and this was the first trip. We stayed at the NPR campground at Boulder beach. Campground was excellent! Potable water is close to all sites and all have partial shade. As we pay 10 per night with senior access it was perfect!