Lake Mohave

After watching that great Super Bowl game, in which my team* demonstrated their true superiority, we packed up on Monday and moved a couple hours north to Katherine's Landing campground on Lake Mohave, about 10 minutes north of Bullhead City and Laughlin.  This will be our staging area before we make the push north.  Besides being close to last-minute shopping and cheap, it's got a dump station for that final winterization before we become poor ba$tards again.

We toured this area on a previous trip and decided if we were going to spend a few days this campground would be a much quieter area than the casino parking lots.  Cost is $10 for a 7 day pass (although it's dated for 12 days, so maybe there's a winter discount) plus $10 per night in the campground.  A very reasonable price, especially compared to other government-run places I've seen.

*I'll admit, the Seahawks only became my team sometime in the first half.  Hard to believe that Denver could fall apart so utterly and completely.

The sites here are very wide, but not deep.  Probably would have fit better cross-ways.  

Somehow we've only had a handful of these this trip.  

From a little hill beside the campground.  This is southwest, towards the marina and lake.  

Northwest, loop A.  Find our site?  (Hint: look for Sarah.) 

One of the other landings north of the campsite.  

Davis Dam, the creator of Lake Mohave.  

Found an unmarked gravel road on the Nevada side and followed it down to the lake.  This is a view of the campground from across the river and up the hill.  

One of the side trails brings you down to this little beach on a bay.  Mouth of the bay is to the right.  Nice spot for tent camping, or pickup & camper.  Definitely no trailers or motorhomes through the canyon enroute to here!  

The main gravel road leads to this beach/campground.  No charge to stay, 14 day limit.  Pit toilets and a garbage bin provided, otherwise no services.  

To the right of the previous shot.  

And to the right again.  No designated sites; vans and motorhomes parked along the beach, or anywhere.  Nice spot!  

When we got here we realized we'd not had our Mexican meal yet, so Thursday night we went out.  Wendy liked the Saguaro-stemmed glass, but resisted the urge to slip it into her purse.  

The last dutch oven meal of the trip - Cowboy Stew with biscuit dumplings (not added yet)! Can't wait for summer to break it out again!   

Not to be outdone, Wendy made desert:  pudding cake with ice cream.  Yum!  Take that, Cathy!  Extra points again if you can figure out who got each bowl...  

That's it for now.  Sadly, we'll be on the road tomorrow (Sunday) heading north, so probably no more posts til we get home.  Try to make the weather a little warmer for us enroute, and we'll try to bring some sunshine back with us.  Cheers!