Sign Up for
News & Specials
Watercraft Rates
Lake Mead Lakeside Lodging
RV Park at Temple Bar Marina
Lake Mead Houseboating at Callville BayLake Mead National Recreation Area
Lake Mead is the largest man-made lake and reservoir in the United States, containing enough water to flood the entire state of New York with 1 ft. of water (26 million acre ft.). It is located on the Colorado River in Nevada and Arizona, about 30 miles southeast of Las Vegas, Nevada.
The lake was created by the completion of Hoover Dam in 1935. Lake Mead National Recreation Area includes these waters as well as 1.5 million acres surrounding them. The recreation area provides a wide variety of unique outdoor recreation opportunities ranging from warm-water recreation to exploration of rugged and isolated back country.
World-class fishing and water sports just minutes from Las Vegas
Visitors to Lake Mead NRA will find spectacular scenic vistas from park roads, the lake surface, and non-structured walks. Striking backdrops for all recreational activities include deep canyons, dry washes, sheer cliffs, distant mountain ranges, the lakes, colorful soils and rock formations and mosaics of different vegetation.
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lake Mead is the western home of the Striped Bass, Bluegill, Largemouth Bass, Crappie and Channel Catfish. Fishing for stripers and largemouth bass is good throughout Lake Mead with crappie, blue gill, green sunfish, and catfish being more prevalent in the upper Overton Arm of the lake. The desert climate offers fishing throughout the year with winter Crappie fishing excellent during the winter months.
Temple Bar Marina's location provides almost year 'round perfect weather for enjoying outdoor activities from hiking to boating to wildlife viewing. The waters of Lake Mead are clear, and provide ideal conditions for watersports like waterskiing, tubing and touring via personal watercraft, boating, and fishing. Temple Bar is a skier's dream, with unobstructed runs of 20 miles in either direction.
Enjoy hundreds of miles of beautiful shoreline set within the red rocks of America's Southwest with a houseboat vacation from Temple Bar Marina on Lake Mead. It's the perfect way to put yourself in the middle of it all and enjoy everything that the lake has to offer.
Temple Bar Marina, Lake Mead
 |
Temple Bar Marina is located in the Temple Basin on the Arizona side of eastern Lake Mead. It's the closest marina for Arizonans who want to get away from the more populated Boulder Basin area of Lake Mead.
The area around Temple Bar Marina is especially well known for two things: the massive rock formation that gave the area its name and its 20 mile-long unobstructed water-ski runs that have every watersports enthusiast rushing to grab a rope and just go! You can play for hours with glassy waters and few people, just a couple miles from the marina docks.
Temple Bar Marina has all the amenities you'd expect at a good marina.
Temple Bar Marina Facilities Include:
- Ski Boats, PWC & Fishing Boat Rentals - available for hourly, daily and multi-day rental
- Lakeside Lodging - steps away from the waters of Lake Mead
- RV Park - overlooking Lake Mead and convenient to resort services
- Boat Slip Rental - daily and monthly slips available
- Dry Storage - secure and convenient to launch areas
- Gift Shop &Convenience Store - last minute items for your houseboat trip and must-have souvenirs
- Restaurant & Lounge - overlooking the lake and marina, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner
A full fleet of Lake Mead houseboats is available at Callville Bay Marina on the Nevada side of the lake. The marina is about an hour's drive from the turnoff to Temple Bar. Visit Callvilbay.com.
Temple Bar Marina is professionally managed by Forever Resorts and is an authorized concessioner of the National Park Service, Lake Mead National Recreation Area
Temple Bar Marina Boat Slip Rentals
Have your own boat? Bring it along! Slip rentals are available at Temple Bar Marina. Rates are either by slip or boat size, whichever is larger.
Temple Bar Marina also offers the following services for boat owners: Service & Repair, Launching Service, and Dock Boxes. Please call the Marina for details and rates.
Marina 1
- 70' end tie (metered power): $9.43/foot/month
- 20x70 (metered power): $10.65/foot/month
- 40' end tie (metered power): $9.38/foot/month
- 16x40 & 17x40 (metered power): $10.75/foot/month
- 50' end tie (metered power): $9.40/foot/month
- 18x50 (metered power): $10.70/foot/month
- 75' end tie (metered power): $9.47/foot/month
- 18x75, 22x75, 23x75, & 24x75 (metered power): $11.14/foot/month
Marina 2 & F Dock
- F Dock (10x18 or 12x20, intermittent water and electric): $6.75/foot/month
- G Dock (20x70, metered power): $8.75/foot/month
- H Dock (Side tie, metered power): $8.75/foot/month
- H Dock (17x36, metered power): $7.75/foot/month
- H Dock (80', metered power): $8.75/foot/month
- I Dock (12x25, 16x25, 16x50, 14x25 & 14x30, unmetered power): $7.75/foot/month
- I Dock (18x70, 70', metered power): $8.75/foot/month
- Courtesy slips are available for short term daily use.
- There is no charge for 15 minute pickup/drop-off.
- Overnight charge is $25. No electricity is available at these slips.
Dry Storage
- Overnight storage: $15.00/night
- Boats up to 25feet: $60.00/month
- Boats 25ft - 32ft: $65.00/month
- Boats over 32 feet: $90.00/month
National Park Service Kids Zone
 |
"Get Outdoors, It's Yours!" is a national campaign focused on getting America's youth outside and engaging with Nature. The goal of this initiative is to encourage children and their families to spend more time outdoors.
The Kids Zone site has information on Web Rangers, Junior Rangers and Park Fun and Activities. Click on the link below to get to know the National Park System and all of the information available for kids.
7am to 6pm MST ~ Monday thru Friday
8am to 4pm MST ~ Saturday & Sunday
