Kingman Wash Beach

🏊Swimming at Kingman Wash Beach

Swimming is informal, direct-from-shore entry over a rocky bottom (water shoes recommended). Divers describe an easy, gently sloping lake bottom reaching about 25 feet deep near shore with a deeper area to the south, suiting waders, casual swimmers, and beginner scuba divers; a camper described it as a good spot to "get into the water to cool off on a hot summer day."

📍How to get to this swimming hole

From Las Vegas, travel via I-11 South past Boulder City, over the Colorado River at Hoover Dam into Arizona, then onto a rough unpaved access road (roughly 3-4 miles, reported to take about 25 minutes to drive) that descends to the Kingman Wash shoreline near Temple Bar/Hoover Dam.

Parking: No formal lot; vehicles park along the dirt access road and at scattered dispersed sites near the shoreline. High-clearance vehicles are recommended for the rough, hilly, washboard road, though some cars reportedly get through carefully.

🥾The walk in

No real hike here. The water is a short walk from where you park. No hiking trail is involved; this is a drive-up dispersed shoreline access point off a rough dirt road. Once parked, swimmers walk directly from their vehicle or campsite down the rocky slope to the water's edge (distance varies by which pull-off/campsite is used, from steps to a short uphill walk back to flatter tent sites).

💬What regulars say

Visitors describe Kingman Wash's water as clean and beautiful with good access for paddleboarding toward Hoover Dam, but note significant weekend crowding. One visitor called weekends crowded with people who 'leave all their trash, and park so you can't open your vehicle doors,' while weekday visits are described as much more peaceful.