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Las Vegas Bay Campground
Dispersed · National Park Service · NV · 36.12785, -114.87257
Inside a national park unit
Las Vegas Bay 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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Ask about this camp →National Park Service lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Las Vegas Bay Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,275 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Las Vegas Bay CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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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 Las Vegas Bay 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
- FFuel0 mi
- WWater7 mi
- DDump7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- PPropane9 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- +Urgent care9 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- OOutfitter10 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- AAir-up12 mi
- ShShower14 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Las Vegas Bay Campground
Access
Dispersed
Land
National Park Service
Elevation
1,275 ft
Ground slope
0.8% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.8 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~9.7 mi · Interstate 11
State
NV
Coordinates
36.12785, -114.87257
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Las Vegas Bay Campground · National Park Service · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Mead · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townWhitney · ~9.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.8 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~9.7 mi · Interstate 11
- Drinking waterWater · ~7.0 mi
- FuelLas Vegas Bay Fuel · ~0.5 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~8.8 mi
- Dump station~7.4 mi
- GroceriesSmith's · ~7.6 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~8.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicVA Southeast Primary Care Clinic · ~8.9 mi
- HardwareU-Haul Moving & Storage at College Drive · ~9.0 mi
EV charging — from Las Vegas Bay Campground · National Park Service · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger8.6 mi straight-line SW — L541 CPE250-SERVICE1, Henderson, NV · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach68 within 25 mi · 76 within 50 · 111 within 100 · 135 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)9.5 mi — Boulder City, NV - Tesla Supercharger, Boulder City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.8 mi — Henderson, NV - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 12 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- 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 360565 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Las Vegas Bay Campground · National Park Service · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomLV Restroom Campground 522 · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomLV Restroom Campground 523 · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomLV Restroom Picnic Area 530 · ~0.7 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomLV Restroom Ramp 531 · ~0.7 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Las Vegas Bay Campground · National Park Service · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Mead as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.2 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 0.8% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.8 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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 ~9.7 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 Las Vegas Bay Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Las Vegas Bay Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Boulder Beach Campground~7.4 mi · fee
- Callville Bay Campground~8.1 mi · fee
- Eldorado Free Campsite~18.7 mi
Who holds the land at Las Vegas Bay 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 — Las Vegas Bay Campground
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: this is an NPS-operated campground and IS a fee campground, but nps.gov did not publish the nightly rate on any page reachable this fire -- the fees page defers to the campgrounds page, which renders client-side and returned no rate. The two Lake Mead campgrounds that DO publish a rate (Boulder Beach, Callville Bay) both show $20/night for NPS-operated sites, so $20 is the likely figure, but IT IS NOT VERIFIED FOR THIS SITE. A reviewer must confirm the rate before this ships. 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. NPS lists this as one of the six Lake Mead-side campgrounds (nps.gov/lake/planyourvisit/lake-mead-campgrounds.htm) and its own POI dataset carries two campground restrooms here ("LV Restroom Campground 522/523"). NOTE: the lake's shoreline has receded far from this campground; it is no longer a lakeside site. NEAREST TOWN: Las Vegas / Henderson, NV. Coordinate is the NPS Public POIs pin. SOURCE: https://www.nps.gov/lake/planyourvisit/lake-mead-campgrounds.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.
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 Las Vegas Bay 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
- 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