Echo Bay Lower Campground — Lake Mead National Recreation Area

This campground is the worse in lake mead rec area! Nothing has been done, no lights in the bathroom half the toilets are half functional, the guys who drives around in his canam is always drunk an shirtless claims he is the maitance man for the area,

If you have children I do not recommend camping here better places for the same price. Las vagas bay! The parks service is a disgrace when it comes to keeping echo bay up to date will never return for my children to be exposed to drunk park employee,

The store is over priced an misleading as the sign says showers but you must stay at the rv park for those amenities this whole little campground is a joke! Most people don't even pay

The lower CG is bigger but most sites are very small and suitable for tenters, the sites on the open lower end (13-20) are best for TTs and RVs, but no shade. CG has dumpsters, water but no cell signal, whereas the upper CG does get a cell signal. Sites are now cashless and you can either reserve or pay online as you choose a site, no FCFS like previous years. Guess you need to go up to upper CG to get cell though? This lower CG is close to the marina mini Mart store.

It’s a long drive to get here but Somme cool scenery on the drive. The water is really down and everything is dry but still a cool quiet spot to camp

There are three campgrounds. This is the lower campground at Echo Bay, good for dry camping. No hookups for RVs.

Decent location for dry camping. Only one loop of a few spots open so not sure if the others are new or closed foe the time of year.

There are three locations for RV parking. For the upper and lower Echo Bay campgrounds. These are drying camping spots. Across from the Echo Bay is an RV park with full hookups.

Cold and empty in the wintertime. Nice place to stop for dump & fill if you’re in a nearby campground. Self service registration and one bathroom for the Upper Campground.

Campground was empty! Was really nice and quiet. We’re able to get up and launch boat just down the road. Store is open but very little to choose from. All in all we had a great day here!

This is for the Echo Bay RV Village. Overall a very nice park. Has a whole sheet of rules though. No fire rings at the sites, only at two central locations. No generators but this area has full hook ups. Most of the rules appear to be broken regularly such as storing fuel at the site, more than two pets, noise etc. But it was a fairly nice park, however for the price I will stay at the rv village at Boulder beach.

Pretty good spots with ample space, tables & fire pits. None of the spots are too far from the bathroom and it hardly ever gets too crowded. Park staff is super friendly.

To start we were told there was a small beach nearby. Couldn't find it, lol. User error for sure. I knew it would be warm as it was summer but checked before making plans that the temps would go down at night (typical weather people got it very wrong) but they did not until almost 4 am. Overall it was not the best trip of last year.

Otherwise, it was a cute little campground with great night sky views considering all the light pollution popping over the hill from nearby Vegas. The spots are a bit close together but the bathrooms were very tidy and the camp host was super nice. I would camp here again in Early Spring or Late Fall.

People are friendly. Clean bathrooms. Facilities are a little tired. View is marred by old tires sitting around from prior marina

My first time here and it was really nice. Fish everywhere and clear waters. Of road north East of echo bay to find this location.

Nice site. Easy in and out. Close to the water. Store employees and park host nice and friendly. Pet friendly park. July camping is a little extreme. But spend the day by the lake and leave a/c running in trailer and you are good to good.

We were heading to camp at Lake Mead last minute with no reservations and were nervous about getting a spot, but we showed up at Echo Bay on a weekend and there was practically NO ONE there...to this day I still have no idea why, maybe it was a bit early in the season.  Seems like it was pretty much just an overflow for those that did not get other sites, but it was totally fine to me.

Make sure to get a site under a tree with some shade.  All sites had restrooms, trash, and water nearby.

There is not a great place nearby to get groceries, so make sure to stock up beforehand.  There is a little convenience store at the site but pickings were very slim.

There's a boat ramp at the bottom of the road, and some nice places to walk/hike along the lake.

Only downside is that it is pretty remote and it was an hour drive to Hoover Dam and the main lake Mead recreation areas.

It's a very clean campground. My wife and i set up camp on an early Saturday morning and for the rest of the day we enjoyed the weather and good conversation with the people camping up and down the road. The facility was well taken care of and have some great views especially during sunset. Looking forward to another visit there later this summer. H20 at each camp, restrooms only a few hundred feet from our site. The marina, RV camps and C-store were all operated by super friendly people.

Not sure why we would go to tent camp at Lake Mead in the middle of summer but we did, and we were not the only ones. It was 110 degrees during the day and 85 degrees at night. Quite miserable honestly. Tent sites were spacious and bathrooms were fairly clean. Ideal time to camp here would most likely be early Spring or late Fall.

Stayed here for 4 nights in mid March. It was not our intended destination, but it was spring break and it’s where we ended up. In the end it was lovely. It’s a little strange, as there used to be a marina just below the campground, and the buildings and leftover equipment are still there, but not in use (other than an extremely sparsely stocked store and gas station.) The campground itself had some nicely shaded spots and decent privacy. The camp host was very pleasant and helpful as well. The weather was perfect and it was a great location for visiting Valley of Fire and Lake Mead.

When the lake was high, this was an awesome campground to stay at. Now, it's still a nice campground, but it becomes ridiculously hot in this area and there is no easy access to recreational water to cool off.

I'm surprized and happy to see that it's still open and well maintained.

This is a review for the lower campground, aka the one closer to the marina, and the store.