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Clark County
Drive-up · National Park Service · Clark County, NV · 35.23394, -114.59355
Inside a national park unit
Clark County 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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Ask about this camp →Dave's been here. A spot from Dave's own travels on National Park Service land — free to camp. Conditions still change, so confirm access, stay limits and fire rules before you go.
Telephone Cove Campground. A free campground on the shore of Lake Mohave in southern Nevada. Some cell service. Enough room for multiple vehicles. Beach setting likely extremely busy during summer. There were several other campers during my stay in November. Vault toilets. Fire rings. Some trees. A lot of beautiful coves along the shore. Located on the water. Recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 12 November 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Clark County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 644 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Clark CountyNIFC · 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 Clark County · 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
- DDump2 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- EVEV fast charger6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- RxPharmacy7 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- ShShower9 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- WWater28 mi
- AAir-up33 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 28-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 5 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Clark County
Access
Drive-up
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
644 ft
Ground slope
1.5% · flat
County
Clark County, NV
Coordinates
35.23394, -114.59355
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Clark County · National Park Service · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Mohave · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Colorado River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townKatherine · ~2.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelGas N Grub · ~4.8 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~30.2 mi
- Dump station~2.5 mi
- GroceriesRegency’s Gift and Convenience Store · ~5.1 mi
- PharmacyLaughlin Pharmacy · ~6.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicTalas Harbor At Bullhead City · ~4.9 mi
- HardwareLowe's · ~7.7 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
Had a signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
Yes
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Clark County · National Park Service · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger5.9 mi straight-line S — Laughlin, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 reach2 within 25 mi · 15 within 50 · 99 within 100 · 197 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS9.8 mi — Anderson Ford Bullhead City, Bullhead City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO31.5 mi — Kroger Smiths 190 (Kingman, AZ), Kingman
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.8 mi — RIVERSIDERESORT RIVERSIDE 1, Laughlin, NV · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 324017 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Clark County · National Park Service · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomKA Nevada Telephone Cove Vault Toilet 173 · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomKA Nevada Telephone Cove Vault Toilet 172 · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomKA Nevada Telephone Cove Vault Toilet 171 · ~0.2 mi S · NPS
- RestroomKA Nevada Telephone Cove Vault Toilet 184 · ~0.3 mi S · NPS
Coming out here — Clark County · National Park Service · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Mohave as a perennial lake or pond, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.5% — flat. 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- 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 Clark County elsewhere
Other camps near Clark County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Mount Nutt Wilderness~16.3 mi
- Cottonwood Cove Upper Campground~18.5 mi · fee
- Dead Mountains Wilderness~18.6 mi
- Cottonwood Cove Lower Campground~18.8 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Clark County
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 — Clark County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Clark County, NV). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record. | Land manager filled 2026-09-24: this point falls inside Lake Mead National Recreation Area (National Recreation Areas), a unit of the National Park Service, by point-in-polygon against the NPS Land Resources Division boundary layer. No other agency record names a manager for it.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 12 November 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Clark County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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