Echo Bay Campground

Convenient to Valley of Fire SP

Although not related to the management of the campground, I want to say it's WINDY! We stayed in site 6 of the lower campground, so it was below the high point, but we had a lot of dust in our tent, even thought we kept it zipped.
The water lever was pretty low, and the water was quite cold, but what can you expect in early March with little snow and rainfall? It was as expected in those regards. There were places launch boats that seemed easy to use.
Getting to the lake was easy, and there's a little store with very reasonable gas prices. I don't recall seeing car charging spots or if they had diesel fuel, because we didn't need either of those, but the staff was friendly and helpful.

Pro: inexpensive, good layout, easy to get in and out of sites
Cons: There was only one open set of vault toilets. Fortunately, we camped very close to it. But not close. It didn't small bad and was well-maintained.

No signage pointing to what camsites are on the inside loop. Not obvious where water spigots are located. No ranger to monitor people staying without reservations.

I loved the scenery. The interesting geologic formations. The beautiful lake. It was very windy when i was there and a dead tree in my campsite caused me worry.

Great place to camp. Campground is clean and safe.

The campground is clean and well maintained
I felt safe. The groundsman checked the area regularly.

It was terrible. Some of the campers were very rough and threatening. I reported it to the two people in the store an incident that took place a day earlier. I forgot their names husband and wife the female said she was going to call the maintenance person and report it. I didn’t trust either of them to follow through. I made a call to the Park Police to report what took place. The day before I abruptly departed. Dennis stopped by to ask if the people were bothering me. There was no further incidents from them. Here’s what utterly astounded me. I walked downtown to another camper to ask about Starlink I was having problems, when I saw a side by side pull up. He stopped and gritted his teeth in a guteral tone said get that cat on a leash NOW! It was such a difference from who he was earlier I asked who he was? Seriously. I was so scared of him Inpacked up and left at 6:00am. I will never return there most of the campers are a bunch of drinks and drug users.

This is a hidden gem. We only found it because we needed gas and there was a sign on the highway indicating gas.. It's about a 4 mile drive to it and it works the old way.... go inside and pay.... So if they're closed (I think they close at 3), no gas. Anyway... the campground was awesome. Spacious, great views, clean, flush potties... quiet. Couldn't have asked for anything more. Oh...if interested-- very spotty cell service. But who needs to be connected when you have those surroundings.. :)

The site was great, clean, price was reasonable, etc. The problem was at 9:am, maintenance employees of the park came by to do maintenance. We were in the process of finishing breakfast and checkout was not until noon. The employees said they were going to fix a small wash out - a couple feet wide by a few feet long near the edge of our camping area, but not interfering with our use. We were traveling on motorcycles and they were parked in the middle of our parking area within the camp site. We were told that we might want to move one of our motorcycles so that they could get their trailer backed in without hitting it. This was a utility trailer containing rock & dirt for fill of the void. Another employee suggested it was going to get dusty, right next to the table where we had been sitting and it still had our food and gear sitting on it. There was absolutely no need to fill this void at that moment. We would have likely left in the next hour or two. it wasn't worth making a scene so we quickly grabbed our things and just left. There were only a few camps that were occupied in the entire section of the park so it's not like it needed to be repaired quickly for the next guest. Well done.

No campground host, no cell coverage, and no maintenance. The upper campground is beautiful and closed, the lower campground is totally ignored with no cell coverage. Why not open a section or two of the upper and close the lower? There would be a lot more people willing to stay if the upper campground was opened for use. I won't be back unless it is.