Top 10+ Campgrounds near Castle Valley, UT

Beautiful Great area with dispersed camping. Fills up fast tho. Definitely good for car/tent camping and vans. Do not drive a big trailer or camper down this road. I wouldn’t take this road in a sedan either. Narrow rough road with steep drop off with jeeps and rtvs whipping around. Not any shade for you tent either so just take note in the summer.

The views here are gorgeous. It backs up to the Colorado River with some campsites being directly on the river. The red cliffs behind it are the edge of Arches National Park.

The bike path goes right past the campground so you can park your vehicle and just bike everywhere. 

If this campground is full, there are several more BLM campgrounds further up the road.

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Located in the heart of Moab, Utah, this campground is a convenient base for exploring Arches National Park, Canyonlands National Park, and the surrounding area. The campground offers a variety of accommodations, including RV sites, tent camping, and cabins, all within walking distance of downtown Moab's shops and restaurants.

There are lots of cottonwood trees growing in the campground, which provide nice shade, which is especially important in Moab in the hot months! 

More details and review: https://youtu.be/k1UhWQUsKGI

We’ve stayed at 3 of the 4 sun outdoors in Moab now. We drive a class c and do not tow a car. The Moab transit is convenient and user friendly. We love the arches gateway for its more spacious sites and amenities. And like Moab downtown for its ease of walking around but it’s a tight fit and smaller. Pool here was great. Nice laundry, great bike wash, loved the playground, nice staff, great amenities. We had an ideal site with a nice big lawn area we set up a whole game area in.

This is an incredibly beautiful campsite not far from Moab. The road getting up can be a little exciting but we made it in our camper van. The only downside was hearing the bikes go by (there’s a motorcross course super close) But the incredible views made up for it!

FYI - we camped here in April 2024.

Lots of campsites. Somewhat busy. Great cell service.

Zero shade. Pack your own.

9 individual sites and 4 group sites a little further down. Trash dumpster is at the group site area. By the river and across the street from the Corona Arch trailhead. Great location if you want to do the hike early morning and go back to camp for lunch. Sites are pretty spread around and the ones by the river have bushes and brush great for privacy. No cell signal for tmobile but starlink worked great!

Beautiful spot. No showers though and someone stole our firewood that we left behind for a few hours

Love's is on each side of the road. On the west side are 8 RV hookup sites you can pay for, but we're self contained. Park anywhere outside of normal parking where you're out of the way and stay the night. You can park with the semis of wherever. Trash cans are scattered throughout. They have showers in the west side building; I don't know about the east. We stayed here with a 32' camper trailer with no issues. There are people all over here with all shapes and sizes of rigs.

Plenty of campsites, each with fire pits. Not crowded. Surprisingly organized for free camping. Great cell service where I camped (AT&T). Would go back.

We paid to park our small RV there and the service could not have been better. Everything is clean and well maintained, the location is great, and the hosts are friendly.

I could not recommend this more highly.

We enjoyed our 3 nights here. It was super busy but managed to get a spot arriving early in the morning. Super quiet along the river. Below we could access a little beach.

We actually stayed down the road of this spot and there are quite a few spots along this road to park. I suggest getting here early because the spots do fill up.

We drove in right around sunset and I would highly recommend coming before then. The road in is very rocky in sections and unless you have 4x4 and/or high clearance I wouldn’t recommend it. On certain sections, our wheel got stuck below a rock.

Once you get to the spot, the views are unbelievable. Hardly any noise or trash.

Lots of options up here. Can't make it to all the spots with a 2wd van. Just the lower ones