Lovell Canyon Dispersed

This is a beautiful free spot nestled in the mountains outside of Vegas. The access road into the national forest is paved with lots of camping options adjacent to the road itself or hidden back on dirt side roads some of which are sketchy so scout ahead before driving a 2-wheel drive or low clearance vehicle in.
This area can be windy and it snowed on us in late March. We found a spot that had a berm to knock down the wind and loved our hidden spot. Unfortunately, we had a desert rat that decided that he liked our engine compartment as a shelter so we had to leave a day early to rid ourselves of him before he had time to chew threw any wires. I doubt this is common in the area but you might want to come prepared with traps if you intend to stay for a while as we did.

T-mobile isn’t strong but it is useable from most of the area. Our WeBoost really helped get the signal constant for our work needs. 2bars.
Verizon: There wasn't any signal at the spot we found.

We usually disperse camp at Lake Mead, but the virus has all that closed this year. Lots of places to explore in this canyon. Only a limited amount of areas for big rigs. Lots of room for Van life. I was disappointed to pick up over 7 pounds of nails, screws and staples from our camping area. The worst thing that happened during our stay was a camper than pulled in next to us at night and dumped their black tank before leaving at dawn. Disgusting. Be prepared to pick up trash and NO campfires. Rangers up and down the road everyday, but few people following rules.

It's beautiful here! On the left coming from 160 there are lots of trees, but the cell signal is more spotty. On the right it's more open and the AT&T is great! I didn't have Verizon service at all anywhere.

We ended up pretty much at the listed coordinates, as everything else was either already taken, or didn't have signal. We were right on the main road and on the side road, and there was more traffic than I would have expected. And, because of where we were there were a lot of people turning around there.

We were there on a Saturday night and I'm looking forward to trying it again mid-week to see if some of the more tucked in sites are available.

We loved staying here off Lovell Canyon Road! Maybe it's because it's October which isn't a very busy time of year. Maybe it was the right timing, but we had a totally peaceful and quiet stay, despite being smack in the middle of a junction of 4x4 jeep trails.

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The road in, is in amazing shape. Saw 2 sheriff department vehicles in the 14 days we were here, so this area must get loud. The weekends, for us were still really quiet.

Now for the con: It's a solid hour away from Las Vegas. Currently there's construction on the main road, which adds time coming back, often getting stuck behind the big 18 wheelers hauling loads way to heavy for them to carry.

Despite the distance away from things, we would stay here again.

Water is free at Oasis RV Resort, and dump is $15. Afterwards we found out that there's a closer dump and water in Pahrump (the other direction) at Preferred RV Resort. While we were here we visited the strip early in the morning (we've seen Vegas at night before), because...well...kids and a dog. We still got strange looks, but we like to live life on the edge.

No Verizon 4G LTE (as in literally No Service), but really strong AT&T 4G LTE.

Highly reccommend visiting Red Rock National Conservation Area, and hiking Calico Tanks. Just amazing rock formations! Truly other worldly. For us, this location, and Las Vegas in general, had an unusually, and unexpected appeal.

Tent campers from UK here. First boondocking experience in the US. Road a little bumpy but our hire car coped fine. Just a couple of us up there, plenty of room, a large RV parked at the head as I don't think he would have made it down.

Previous visitors had sadly left a load of rubbish for someone else to clean up. Close to Vegas and a good stopover.

I was excited to stay here after the reviews. It is a gorgeous area. But there were no great spots for a 30' TT that were available. I saw only about 5 spots that would have worked at all (a couple of which were right next to the paved road) unless you want to jam right up next to someone. We found a spot sort of near the road and an access road with a few car-camping sites up it. It looked like a wash area. No one was in those spots, so we thought we were good for one night as dark approached. Especially with it being a Monday night in March.

The real annoyance started after dark. We heard a car tear down the main road about every 5-10 minutes. Then several tore past our campsite up the dirt road next to us. I have no idea what was going on out here, but it was really noisy with vans and cars coming by that quickly. I am guessing many folks are using this for staying overnight after working in the city. They seem very familiar with the roads to be going that fast. There are gun shells and glass pretty much everywhere. Several of the sites have fast food trash in them. No one was that loud after they got parked, but it was just a bunch of after dark traffic.

It is also worth noting that if you are coming from the east, it is a pretty steep climb up State Road 160 before you get to the turn-off. I am glad we were not prepared to stay here for a while or we would have had full fresh tanks and that would have been tough to do.

I would caution you about staying next to the road. Know there will likely be lots of traffic at night, but likely almost none during the day. If you can snag one of the few spots away from the road, it would likely be an awesome place to stay.