National Park System · NV, AZ
Camping in Lake Mead National Recreation Area
The Recreation.gov record puts 15 campgrounds inside the park. Of those, 6 take reservations and 9 are first-come, first-served. Entrance fees, alerts and hours for the park itself are on our sister site, Park Atlas.
15 campgrounds9 first-come
The park in figures
- vehicle entrance fee
- $25
- recreation visits in 2025
- 6,135,586
- campsites
- 387
- campgrounds take reservations
- 6 of 15
- longest RV or trailer allowed
- 50 ft
The entrance fee and visit count come from Park Atlas open data. The campground figures are totals across the 15 Recreation.gov records listed below, and the rig length is the longest any one of them allows.
Every campground
Park campgrounds book out fastest of any on Recreation.gov. Most open six months ahead at 10 a.m. Eastern; the first-come loops are the fallback when the window is gone. The first-come playbook