DAVIS CAMP – Additional security will work Mohave County’s Davis Camp park facility Friday through Sunday. The park has welcomed unprecedented numbers of visitors along the Colorado River in Bullhead City as residents flee COVID-19 restrictions in California and Nevada for greater recreational freedoms in Arizona.
The Board of Supervisors approved a contract amendment Thursday that will allow its vendor security firm in Phoenix to add personnel for crowd control.
“We have witnessed over the last two weekends, historic numbers coming to Davis Camp. For the safety of our guests, after working with the sheriff’s department and risk department, it is our recommendation that we need to bring in additional security,” Parks director Harold Barton told supervisors. “Last weekend we had over 7,000 people on Saturday.”
Barton said additional security officers will work this holiday weekend and possibly future weekends, depending on visitation numbers. He said they’ll help resolve parking issues and work crowd control wherever needed.
“We are going to be implementing limitations. We are actually going to start capping the total numbers that will be coming into the park,” Barton said. He said wristbands will be used to help maintain a safe and manageable number of people at Davis Camp.
Barton told the Board that visitation will be capped at about 5,000 people. He said 2,000 wristbands will be issued to adults and that will allow attendance to reach about 5,000 because children and family members come in under the single band.
- Dave Hawkins
