Red Rock Campground — Hotel in Summerlin South

Red Rock Canyon Campground is a super nice Campground 19 miles west of the Las Vegas strip and about fifty miles to Lake Mead. It’s south of the Calico Basin area and across SR-159. And is on Moenkopi Rd, a mile off 159. It’s very easy to get to from route 95 and 215.

Campground: The CG is a big “U” shape with crossbar drives in between the arms. Google Earth can show you the layout. There are approximately fifty-six sites in the upper part and three or four in a large open area south of the walk-in tent area. For group camping or pavilion rentals, there are 7 very nice individual spots on the east side across Moenkopi Rd., with four double pit toilets dispersed throughout that area. There is a large dumpster at the entrance to the CG for trash disposal. Just be advised, no dump station, the entire campground is dry camping, no hookups, but….

Water: Though there is water here, filling of tanks is prohibited and I believe water is trucked in or possibly pulled from a well. But there are faucets located at the seven double-pit toilets.

Pit Toilets: LET ME SAY THESE ARE ABSOLUTELY THE CLEANEST PIT TOILETS WE’VE EVER USED. The hosts keep them very clean. They are sprayed DAILY with disinfectant, mopped out and even pressure washed when needed.

Electricity: There is no power and the electricity at the host’s section is via an array of solar panels and inverters. Pit Toilets have dusk-to-dawn exterior battery/solar lights as well as interior motion lights. There is a hand sanitizer dispenser in every bathroom. Generator hours are 6am-10pm

Sites: Our site was #30 and was relatively level with a slight two-inch pitch front to back and about an inch right to left. Sites have a fire-ring w/grate and a nice picnic table and a rice gravel pad if you pitch a tent. Though ours did not, about half of the spots had covered pavilions over the picnic table on the lower half CG.

The pads and roadways are #57 gravel and most are outlined with railroad ties; there is approximately thirty to thirty-five feet between sites, which are angled properly for easy back in and I’d guess they are a good thirty-five to forty feet to the bumper protecting the tent pad in the rear of the site.

Staff: The camp hosts are very friendly, knowledgeable and accommodating. They are super conscientious about keeping everything picked up and tidy.

There are miles of hiking trails leading into and out of the campground and throughout the entire canyon. The Red Rock Canyon Scenic Drive is across SR-159 and a mile or so southwest.

There is an Albertsons Market, a Terrible's Mini-Mart, some fast food and various strip mall shops in a very nice plaza area. There are a few propane places to swap tanks, we had our 30lb’ers filled at the U-Haul store

We stayed a week and would come back if in the area. We stayed in...

This experience changed for us the good image of USA into a very bad country image. We cycled all the way from Vegas to find out it was full. Late in the evening, we had no chance to cycle back. In the Office was nobody and it said they are on duty. We knocked at their camper, but nobody opened. A lot of spaces had been reserved, but nobody came. We waited till midnight before we "illegally" pitched up our tent. We wanted to pay next morning. The campground couple came and was not amused. Ofcourse, we should have made a reservation on the website, what we tried and it worked not with our foreign zip code. But explaning our situation was argueing for them. Our neighbours heard about our situation and invited us for the next night. Later an other neighbour packed and gave us her payed receipt, so we can stay on our own space legally. But....no way to do that on this stupid "federal" campground. Maybe, the campground is not stupid, but the people, who made the rules and who just follow like brainwashed. Next morning couple came, not amused, it is not allowed to stay on other peoples space even if they allow it, they are not supposed to do, we shall not wander arround and ask people for a space, we shall not argue, and we are illegal again. So they called a "sheriff" and his behaviour, was like in an old Western movie...what would a sheriff had been done with some outlaws in the good, old, gun times. The only really nice thing was to give us no fine. But all this authorities...could have said...well, it is not how it works normally here, next time you should try somehow to reserve, but you had been lucky, that all worked out well and nobody got in trouble....but no way for them!!! Sheriff want arrest us!!! Imagine!!! Well, we wish, that they all get in troubles in an foreign country...maybe then they would change behaviour...there is not only black or white in the world, also grey and coloured. In 38 countries, we never had such a bad experiance, like this...

We only stayed here one night on our way towards LV from Death Valley. The campground hosts were very nice and helpful while we were there. We didn't have a reservation but there happened to be sites available still on a weekday night in January. We did try to camp there on a Saturday night earlier in that same trip and there were no sites available. So, it might be better to have a reservation especially for weekends.

The only thing we didn't care for is the fact that the RV and tent sites are very close together as well as all the sites actually, which is really not for us. So you can hear noises from all around. The campground does have quiet hours though which is 10p.m. There also happened to be loud campers nearby who were up wayyyyy past quiet time and that was not appreciated at all. Hopefully that's not a regular occurrence when staying there.

The views are pretty nice from the campground. Also at night, you can see the lights from Las Vegas which lit up the campground. We also heard the donkeys neighing and the coyotes howling, which was...