Boulder Beach Campground — Lake Mead National Recreation Area

We picked this campground for its proximity to a friend’s home in Lake Las Vegas; we enjoyed dinner with them and then headed to the campground (in the dark) for the evening. 

For quite some time, there had been no sites reserved at all but when we took a closer look at it several weeks before our stay, we found that all the best sites had already been snatched up! IMO, the best sites are D77, 79, 81, 83, 85, and 87 (for the best views of the lake). Site D65 had a sideways view of the lake and was on the end of the loop (so there was some traffic passing by). 

All sites were paved/concrete and mostly level. Sites were all in good condition. Many are back-to-back compromising privacy to a degree. A large concrete picnic table and fire ring complete each site. No hookups at all. 

The restrooms were basic but clean. No hooks, shelves, paper towels or hand dryers, or SOAP but for $10 (with the senior pass) I’m not going to complain too loudly. There is a dump station. It looks like there is a swimming beach, but I did not check it out. 

Overall, a very quiet campground(despite some generator use).

We enjoyed our time here, we had a spot overlooking the lake and saw the sunrise right in front of us, perfect!. It is quiet a way from the lake, and uphill on the way back, not walkable with all your picnic and swimming things. You can park lakeside but it's a rough road for RV's.

Staff were lovely, great little shop, nice T-shirts!

The laundry does not accept coins since covid, you can either download an App which didn't work on any of our 4 phones, or load a card to use in the machine, but needed to load a min of $25 to the card!!!. Madness. So couldn't do the wash we really needed (we were not willing to pay $25 for one wash!). This really needs sorting, several people we spoke to complained about it.

Also there is a weird set up in the shower area, there are no cubicles in which you can fit you and your clothes, you have to leave your clothes outside the shower. Not very private. There is another curtain which can be pulled across the 'changing area', but there are two showers, and if you don't know the person in the other shower you will still be sharing the changing area with them!! Needs updating.

Would recommend to pay for the front row lake view spots, worth the treat :-)

Easy to find, very clean, only 10 mins from Hoover Dam (worth seeing once in your life, go on the full 1 hr tour) and 25 mins from Las Vegas. 

Sadly there is no watersports hire on the beach (or none we could find) but you can book boat trips ahead of time from the marina and kayak the Colarado south of Hoover Dam. Google search for providers.

The campground has lots of trees, vocal birds, and free WiFi. I saw a rabbit, hummingbird, and even a roadrunner!

My partner and I stayed here last night. This morning, we decided to stay another night, so we paid again. We were going to leave the campground to go hiking, so we took a photo of our receipt on the site post in case someone removed it. Sure enough, when we returned later, a couple were in our site. There was no receipt on the post, but they clearly had been there long enough to set up a pop-up shelter. I told them we had paid for the site. The man said they chose the site because it was empty. I mentioned their receipt wasn't displayed, and he said he just hadn't put it up, but I suspected he was lying, so I went to the camp host. The host I talked to was friendly, and said the other host was actually driving around, so she would meet us at the site. I returned to the site to see the man driving away, so I thought he might be going to pay. The camp host arrived and asked the woman where their receipt was. She said the man left to pay. I told the camp host what happened, and she said she had taken our receipt because the site was unoccupied. I told her we had paid, but she yelled at us that we hadn't left anything at the site, so we would have to pick another one. We had specifically chosen that site for shade and proximity to the bathroom. I explained that we sleep in our car, so we didn't have a tent or trailer to leave, but she just kept yelling at us. Ironically, she didn't seem to care much that not only had the other couple not paid at all, but they even lied about it. The camp host later apologized, but made excuses for her behavior. (The thieves didn't apologize.)

I would not stay here again due to the ridiculous "occupy rule," lack of amenities (no soap in bathrooms and no showers), and large amount of RVs (despite an RV village available nearby).

Also, Boulder Beach sucks. I sunk into knee-deep mud just walking into the lake.

The Dyrt has the listing for the same spot. There are two completely different areas, the campground site is directly next to the RV village. The campground has potable water spots throughout and is completely shaded with lots of foliage. The RV village has a few permanent residents, but there are many spots in the front, rear and side of the village for rv campers. There was no tent camping in the RV village, but you can tent camp in the regular campground next to it. The best spots are right in front of the village, which had at least 20 spots that are able to be reserved. Full hookups in the RV village. All front spots are on concrete pads, so no guessing if your rig is balanced. There is a little general store on property and its also where you check in. Went in the spring, when the weather isn't too bad at Lake Mead. You can walk to the lake, but it is a looooong walk. You can drive your vehicle right onto the lake shore and park directly next to the lake. I did this a few times when there. It was great to back up the truck, open the tail gate and sit right on the lake shore. Boulder City is a short drive with plenty of food and activities to check out.