Stewarts Point — North Shore Road, Lake Mead NRA

Stewarts Point view of Lake Mead — Overton Arm

We love the Lake Mead area. We’ve driven the North Shore Road many a time, both northbound and southbound. We just noticed a little sign for Stewart Point, while out for a drive southbound along North Shore Road from the Overton end. We usually drive northbound from the Boulder Beach end. Stewart Point turnoff is just south of the North Entrance to Lake Mead NRA, which is south of Overton and the exit from Valley of Fire.

We wheeled on to the road and headed towards the lake shore, on a paved road edged with sunflowers. Spring is a great time to be out to catch the showiest of blooms.

 

 

 

 

Road Conditions: paved access to where the houses are, then graded, and finally dirt

Road conditions aren’t too bad even after you leave the pavement behind at the grouping of little homes (at the original lake edge). The road becomes graded, then gravel, rocky dirt, and right on the shore, dirt roads down to and close on the shoreline.

The further you explore south and east along the Point, the rougher are the road conditions.

A slow roll would allow a decent ride for small to mid-length fifth-wheels, RVs and trailers.

With some careful recon in your street vehicle on a separate trip, you would know the conditions all the way along the shore to the south & east sections.

The road closer to the Rogers Bay side, is high clearance, giving way to 4X4 conditions, ideal for tent and backpack camping.

Road Conditions along Stewarts Point shoreline roads

Camping: Free, 15 day limit, Back-country/Boondocking; 1 his/hers outhouse

Camping along Stewart Point & Rogers Bay is free. You are inside park boundaries, so you’ve already used your National Pass or paid the entrance fee. Your stay is limited to 15 days. (If you exit the Park, you pay to get back in.)  The Park sign calls it back county camping, which if it didn’t have the one outhouse at the fork in the graded road, it would be boondockin’ altogether.  

This camp area is informal, with no delineated ‘spots’ or ‘spaces’. You pull up a chair, or a stretch of ground that appeals. The available shore line is several miles, including inlets and coves. Small fingerling points and coves offer a bit of seclusion. 

When he knew we'd seen him, he started running