When you stay at Callville Bay Campground, you can enjoy the area on land or on water. A nearby shaded picnic area has cool grass, grills, restrooms and panels explaining the history of the area. Across the street, you’ll find the trailhead to the Callville Summit Trail. This 2.7-mile moderate hike requires a short climb, but yields a spectacular view of Lake Mead, Fortification Hill, the Hemenway Valley and the River Mountains.
Reviews of Callville Bay Campground (Lake Mead)
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Verizon 4G
Confirmed by 2 users | Last reported on November 20, 2017AT&T 4G
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Calville Bay Campground is near the Calville Bay Resort and Marina. The campground itself stays mostly empty during the week, and boaters/tent campers come in on the weekends. It's never crowded, and the camp hosts enforce the quiet hours well. There's a free dump station, whether you stay or not, potable water spigots throughout the campground, and the restrooms are cleaned daily. There's a bunch of great short hikes from the campground to overlook the lake, and the marina store has all the basic amenities if you need something and don't want to make the 25 min drive into Henderson.
Coyotes frequent the area, so it's best to keep an eye on your small dogs. They've been known to snatch them. Beyond that, it's peaceful, the sites vary from tent only to big rig friendly, and the abundance of trees makes this place seem like a small oasis in the desert.
Verizon was unboosted and did well during the week with 5mbps down and around 2.5 up. On the weekends it slowed down, but was still quite usable.
The $10 fee was with National Park Access pass. Otherwise it's $20/per night.
Nightly Rate: $10.00
Days Stayed: 12
Site Number: 40
RV Length: 27 ft
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
Site we stayed in was easy to get into. A few other campers, so was quiet. Camp host was very informative about amenities. Coyotes hang around so don’t leave pets unattended outside. Nice campsite Verizon service worked great. Was able to stream.
Nightly Rate: $10.00
Days Stayed: 3
Site Number: 3
Cell Coverage Rating
Verizon 4G
Nice campground about an hour to Las Vegas. There are bushes between camp sites to add privacy. The campground down the road closed so nice place to ride bikes and walking trails up the hills towards the lake.
Cell coverage shows 4 bars but slow.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 6
Site Number: 51
RV Length: 40 ft
RV Type: Class A
Cell Coverage Rating
T-Mobile 4G
So, I've stayed at this CG on multiple occasions over the past year. It's an older CG but well maintained and always clean. They've added wifi to the lower loop with multi-directional antennas mounted on the bathrooms. Close to the lake, store, marina, hiking and biking. If you're lucky, you'll catch a view of the burrows and or long horn sheep roaming the area. $20/$10 with interagency pass, bathrooms with sinks/flush toilets, fire pits, tables and water available. Dump station is open with fresh water as well. Solar production is great!
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: 49
RV Length: 21 ft
RV Type: Class B
Cell Coverage Rating
T-Mobile 4G
Spent one night here. The host was great, super friendly. The campground itself is nice and clean. But it’s not on the lake. The water is quite a ways away and the hiking is not very good. It’s near the marina so If you are boating it’s probably great. But for camping, meh. There is a restaurant and store nearby that you could walk/bike to but that’s about it.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 1
Site Number: -
RV Length: 25 ft
RV Type: Class C
Quiet campground, . The bushes between sites have been cut down removing any feeling of privacy..
Nightly Rate: -
Days Stayed: 30
Site Number: 29
This is our second year in a row staying here and little saddened to see the facilities closed due to the ever lowering of Lake Mead. The campsites are decent size and quiet except for generator noise. After 10pm all quiet!
We like the trails (longer now) to the lake and a good base camp for visits throughout the National Rec Area.
Nightly Rate: $20.00
Days Stayed: 8
Site Number: 28
Callville Campground in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area and is a very nice CG with XX Sites. Overall this CG is in good shape, but probably usage at some point was overestimated and then over-built for that estimate. There are three sections in total, but only the first loop is open. Sections two and three looked like they haven't been used in years. We had about four or five campers beside us and the hosts. And let me say upfront, the hosts are absolutely awesome, friendly and attentive.
It’s dry camping with some federal organization and minimal amenities. They have three or four flush toilet buildings, dumpsters for garbage, several fresh water faucets, and a good dump station; each site also has a picnic table, and fire ring. All sites are open to the sky for satellite and solar and all are back-ins. They are level on both axises and consist of a fine compacted gravel. They are plenty wide and plenty long; you can check the specifics for each site on Recreation.gov. We’re a thirty-five-foot A with a tow along and we had plenty of room for both.
Callville is on the western side of Lake Mead and close distance to boating, fishing and water skiing. Of course the area is close to Boulder City, Hoover Dam (which is a must see) and Las Vegas. Though a few miles from water, it’s still hiking distance. While on the subject, there are plenty of wide open spaces to walk and hike right from the campground. Valley of Fire SP is probably thirty to forty minutes. Red Rock Canyon is probably sixty, and both are very nice day trips which we undertook.
Boulder City is a quaint and charming little town with all the essentials, with two great little coffee shops that I frequented though there maybe more, Albertson’s for groceries is a very nice clean well organized store.
Nightly Rate: $10.00
Days Stayed: 6
Site Number: 32
RV Length: 35 ft
RV Type: Class A
Cell Coverage Rating
AT&T 4G
T-Mobile 5G
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- Sun - Sat: 12:00 am - 11:59 pm
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- Longest Vehicle Length Reported
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