Boulder Beach Campground

It it an awesome place - with a nice view! But.. as our first time - it missed basic information - like a map - or signage orientation.

We've booked a place for RV, and as we arrived late in the night, there was nobody at administration to help us. So we couldn't find our place. It was necessary to pick up other one available - more expansive.

But anyway, it was great. good infrastructure, nice view - would recommend.

It was really quiet and clean. Sights are leveled and there are water spigots throughout the park. There’s a dump station with portable water. There are camp hosts situated thru the park too. It’s close to Boulder City where there is stores, gas and all the needs. Next door is a Rv park and they sell propane if needed. When booking a reservation through rec.gov just keep in mind you will need to pay for the entrance fee to the Lake mead area. We would stay here again we enjoyed our time. Oh and we are only 5 miles from the Hoover dam which makes it very convenient. If you have starlink be sure to get a sight that’s free of trees or you will end up switching sights like we did.

We stayed first in January. At that time one loop was first come. Just stayed another week. All sites are now reservation only via recreation.gov. However you can make same day reservations so we just parked in an open site and checked if it was available. Do not assume an empty site is reserved just because it has a tag on it. The camp hosts did not pull the tags on a timely basis.

The campground is well located close to the Hoover dam, Costco and other reprovisioning in Henderson and many trails.

Wish we could stay longer but another time. One night only on our way to Tucson from Ely, NV. With our national parks pass we can access area free. There’s dump station and potable water filling. Very nice landscape campground with trails and lake views. Reserved our campsite on recreation.gov for $20/night. No hookup, flush toilet and sink. Water spigots at campground. We were in loop D site 72. Easy to back in with our 25’ airstream. Sites 74 and 76 are also good. Sites 75-71 are on outer ring of loop, nearest to lake but also closer to the campground road. I’d go for 75, 77 or 79.

Access was very easy and the sites were well spaced out. Easy to dump on the way in and/or out. We had a “beach-side” site with wonderful views of Boulder Basin and a frequent visitor (coyote) that seemed pretty docile. We stayed for a week and would have stayed longer had we not had other reservations elsewhere. It had good proximity to Boulder City with everything you might need, and a short drive to Henderson, which is much larger. We took day-trips to Valley-of-Fire SP for some otherworldly hiking and Willow Beach for a paddle up the Colorado. We would definitely stay here again and look forward to a future visit.

While recreation.gov lists most sites as large-tent capable I when I arrived to my site, #62, outside of the concrete RV pad the available space was covered in rocks and mostly on a slope. I was eventually able to get a large enough space clear of sharp stones to accommodate my 8x7 tent, but even then it was rough to stake out. Another tent camper nearby simply set up on the RV pad and did not stake out at all.

RV camping here seems to be the norm; and as a result promptly at 6pm the RVs sing the song of their people - that low generator groan from all around. Only ending promptly at 10pm when quiet hours start. Days are not any quieter as the campground is under the flight path to the Grand Canyon for several helicopter tour companies. They start up promptly at the butt crack of dawn and pass overheard on the hour, every hour, until dusk.

On the plus side, bathrooms were clean and well-lit.