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Boulder Beach Campground
Dispersed · National Park Service · NV · 36.03695, -114.80192
Inside a national park unit
Boulder Beach Campground sits inside Lake Mead National Recreation Area — a national recreation area run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/lake ↗
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2023-03-17). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
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Can I go now? — Boulder Beach Campground · National Park Service · NV
Open today Year-round per the agency record.
National Park Service record: “Year-round” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Boulder Beach Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,267 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Boulder Beach CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Boulder Beach Campground · National Park Service · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump0 mi
- WWater0 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- +Urgent care5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- RxPharmacy5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- LLaundry5 mi
- PPropane11 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- ShShower16 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Boulder Beach Campground
Access
Dispersed
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
1,267 ft
Ground slope
8.3% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~5.4 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~2.3 mi · Interstate 11
State
NV
Coordinates
36.03695, -114.80192
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Boulder Beach Campground · National Park Service · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHemenway Wash · ~0.4 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townHenderson · ~12.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~2.3 mi · Interstate 11
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.3 mi
- FuelChevron · ~2.2 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~11.4 mi
- Dump station~0.1 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~1.8 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~5.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicRegina Evans, APRN · ~4.6 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~5.0 mi
EV charging — from Boulder Beach Campground · National Park Service · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger2.1 mi straight-line SE — Boulder City, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 16 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach55 within 25 mi · 76 within 50 · 109 within 100 · 139 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS10.3 mi — L541 CPE250-PUBLIC-1, Henderson
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO10.3 mi — L541 CPE250-PUBLIC-1, Henderson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.4 mi — Boulder City Public EV Charging (at a municipal building) · TURNONGREEN · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-12-12 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Hoover Dam Lodge Hotel & Casino - Tesla Destination, Boulder City, 2.1 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 356463 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Boulder Beach Campground · National Park Service · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBB Restroom Campground Loop C 431 · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomBB Restroom Campground 422 Group Use · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomBB Restroom Campground Loop D 432 · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomBB Restroom Campground 6 423 · at this camp · NPS
Coming out here — Boulder Beach Campground · National Park Service · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Hemenway Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.4 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 8.3% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Rail line mapped ~5.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records tourist, museum or scenic passenger service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 11 is mapped ~2.3 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Boulder Beach Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Boulder Beach Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Las Vegas Bay Campground~7.4 mi · fee
- Callville Bay Campground~8.1 mi · fee
- Eldorado Free Campsite~14.5 mi
Who holds the land at Boulder Beach Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Lake Mead National Recreation Area, manager on record: National Park Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Boulder Beach Campground
Open season
Year-round
Stay limit
30 nights (Camping is limited to 30 days in any campground)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
Lake Mead National Recreation Area, NPS-operated developed campground. FEE: $20 per night, from the NPS-operated campground fee table on the park's own place page (read 2026-08-17). NPS place page shows "Boulder Beach: $20/night, 135 sites" and a group site at "$80/night, 5 tent sites". Open year-round. NPS: "Restrooms and water spigots are located throughout the campsite." STAY LIMIT: Lake Mead superintendent's compendium page (nps.gov/lake/learn/management/superintendent-s-compendium.htm, read 2026-08-17): "Camping is limited to 30 days in any campground" within a consecutive 12-month period, and total stay in the recreation area is capped at "90 days within a consecutive 12-month period". ENTRANCE FEE: nps.gov/lake/planyourvisit/fees.htm gives $25.00 per private vehicle valid 1-7 days -- that is on TOP of the camping fee. NEAREST TOWN: Boulder City, NV. Coordinate is the NPS Public POIs pin. SOURCE: https://www.nps.gov/places/boulder-beach.htm | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Boulder Beach Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Boulder Beach Campground
Hot-weather camping →Bugs & critters →Fire rules & restrictions →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →