Camping near Mojave River Dam

Being reasonably close to our home base, we frequent this park with the family. Major grocery and shopping establishments are nearby, with Target directly across the street, In-n-Out, local parks, and the like. Our kids love the pool area, grandparents love the pickleball courts, and there are always fun activities to do throughout the year. Full-timers are friendly and inclusive of newcomers and passer-throughs. Dog parks are clean and located at either corner of the park. The entrance security kiosk is staffed 24/7, and they'll even help spot you while parking your rig. We cannot say enough good things about this place. 

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Don’t let the desert and muted landscape discourage you. The staff was super nice, the store and gift shop well stocked, kids loved the pool, playground, gate room with pool, foosball, ping pong and more. They had a few other new friends to play with and a huge space out back to start a pick up wiffle ball game. Tidy gravel sites with beautiful mosaic tables and benches. We had the perfect site.

Drove up Saturday morning and was able to pick our ideal site. Has some great views. No running water. park ranger said it was okay to have fire within the pit.

Stayed here for a few nights over New Years. It's free but you must stay in designated spots. Seems to be popular with climbers. 

I stopped in for a night and ended up staying 4. No cell reception, so had to use Starlink. Lots of trails and places to scramble up on rocks.

The road in is pretty washboard, but worth the shaking and rattling for this beautiful spot.

Rvs to Close, most people live here. It is very well kept. No trash around, bathrooms pool laundry the grounds are pretty and you can see lake. There are a few full timers and we had a couple really bad incidents in out new trailer and he came on property threatening. They did absolutely nothing.

I stayed here on two nights, one week apart. The electrical connection at my sites were old and almost unusable. The internet was non-existent. Finally, one of the men’s toilets was still broken after a week’s time. There was nasty water on the floor of the bathroom both times. The morning I woke up on the second stay, both commodes were out of order! Why pay $54/night for a poorly managed campground with no working toilets?

Stayed here for just one night. During winter you have to enter the dirt road off Polique Canyon RD (2N09) as the shorter route (the way gps will go) off Van Dusen Canyon (3N09) is closed during winter months. This is a nice camp area and easy to get to. Lots of area to hike through, I hiked up a hill not too far away to watch the sunset. Even during winter there was still 7 other groups there, but plenty of room for all of us. It was nice to have bathrooms there.

This campground could be a 5 rating...level,paved, separated FHU sites with picnic tables and fire rings. Hiking and bike trails. Lots of birds. Fishing. Wide open spaces. BUT the campground bathrooms are not well maintained...no hot water, handle fell off shower, and not clean. Some reviews mentioned train noise...trains do go by but we did not find them to be overly obnoxious...we have had way worse

East access. 1.5 miles from pavement. Road is washboarded so keep your speed under 10mph and its a fairly smooth 5 minute drive. Very clean, great a views, almost empty in January.

This place was nice. Great sense of community and great placement of the gates for safety purposes. Lots of food spots within 10 minutes. Spaces are one of the cleanest I seen. Ranger is on constant patrol. Low-key felt like bikini bottom. Only knock is… no wifi. Great spot overall though

Perfect to get out of the city but still be in it. Campgrounds have more than enough privacy with each one being about 15 to 20 yards apart. A ton of recreational things to do. Quiet at night.

Nice place, beautifull views, good bar. Rustic place for camping. Just to sleep, no services.

Beautiful area, but I couldn't drive in.. Road is completely inaccessible and saw many others turning around as well . I'm in a Kia SUV and this road is like Godzilla shaking your rig, and giant waves of the ground make it completely inaccessible. I don't know how ppl drive here, probably are just risking their cars and rigs, that's for sure

Great camping site during halloween event. Very kid friendly. There were free balloon twisters, pumpkin craving, arts and crafts, toss games. We enjoyed the train ride. it was about $5 per a ride. Campsites were dirt roads. we had electric hookup. Dump station was easy to access and water/trash located next to it. No fees for water and dump. Weather was perfect in mid 70's. Would definitely take the kids back again before they get older.

Clean and well maintained. Friendly service. Awesome pool! Just a little pricey...$71