Best Campgrounds near Monticello, UT

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.

The Lower Butler Wash Road is home to many fantastic car and van camping options. The dirt road is well-maintained and suitable for most vehicles.

Better options for dispersed camping exist nearby, and with less effort. The number of sites and diversity of possibilities along Lower Butler Wash Road is far superior to this area.

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

March 2025.

This is an older, kind of rundown RV & tent campground a couple miles south of Moab. The surrounding neighborhood is also a bit rough looking. The park itself feels pretty safe. Lots of cameras around. Check in staff was extremely friendly. Really needs a little TLC.

On the RV side the sites are very tight. The tent camping sites along the creek look a little nicer.

The bathrooms were renovated last year. Very nice and clean. Women’s showers have great water pressure & volume. Laundry facilities are OK.

Another good stay here. Road is a bit rough coming in at either entrance--just take it slow. At the moment, there's porto-potties near each entry. Views are great all around. Most sites are out in the open and are not private, but just a small handful are near some of the buttes and fallen rock that can offer some privacy. Surprisingly decent cell service here.

We drove our Thor Axis and roads and site were fine for off-road- slow on the last mile plus of dirt. Pretty and quiet but took a few minutes to level our spot.

We love this park! Great hiking right from the campground. Beautiful scenery, friendly staff, clean bathrooms and close to Canyonlands National Park. We really enjoyed our stay here, hiking most of the trails and also visiting Canyonlands Island in the Sky area. Utah does state parks well!

Best place I’ve camped on my extended trip out west. Plenty of sites and private.

We like this campground for its location! So convenient to walk to restaurants in Moab. The campground is mostly empty in early March, so doesn’t feel crowded at all. We are in site 20 which is near the road but the road noise isn’t too bad. The bathrooms are very clean, just not super new looking. The laundry is nice. The grounds are very well kept up. We made a reservation by calling from the road and the staff was very helpful. We arrived after hours and the pickup of our site map and information was easy. We’d stay again!

It's a breathtakingly beautiful spot with a fair amount of simple pull offs for camping.  Unless it's raining or just finished there won't be any water.  There is precious little vegetation as well, but a fair amount of rock outcroppings to block the wind, which howls come spring and is far more common than precipitation.

Speaking of which, don't push your luck if it has rained recently, as the clay softens and becomes slick, packing around tires, and everything else.  Plus even if your vehicle can handle the soft soils you'll wreck the road for everyone once the deep ruts dry out and harden.

Some sites have fire rings but that's the extent of facilities, although there might be a port-a-potty by the western entrance to the road, closer to the Moki Dugway.   Summers get hot, and I'd head up to Cedar Mesa if so. 

There ample dispersed camping on Cedar Mesa, as well as plenty of scraps to get a fire going.  This is one of the greatest concentrations of smaller Ancestral Puebloan (formerly Anasazi, which is controversial and regarded as insulting by today's Pueblo tribes) villages, so there are a life time of ruins to explore.  

Researching ahead of time will pay off, but both the BLM station by the Kane Gulch trailhead and the Natural Bridges National Monument visitor center have maps, guidebooks, and advice.  Please follow the regulations, as this is a sacred ancestral site for numerous indigenous peoples. 

The Recapture Lodge at the east end of Bluff has decades worth of old maps to hidden sites for those who want a hotel (I recommend them highly, having visited off and on since the 1990s).  They'll give great advice if asked. 

Both Natural Bridges and Hovenweap offer something precious in short supply across southern Utah, amazing and beautiful hiking, abundant ruins, and few visitors (this is the rare part).  Both are far more enjoyable than Arches or Zion, which are now overrun by tourists. 

Valley of the Gods, Cedar Mesa, and the nearby national monuments (also Canyonlands, which isn't as packed as the other famous national parks) offer a chance to experience Utah's red rock country without standing shoulder to shoulder with other visitors.  That's getting increasingly difficult to find as the beauty of the region is well known by now. 

p.s. Those wanting even more solitude should ask about the off site ruins managed by Hovenweap: you'll often have these to yourself.

We arrived late but the host took good care of us We got a nice spot with full hook up and after we built up we went into the bathroom I can tell if I could take this with me home I would definitely do that Nice meat bathroom on our trip and we had much more expensive RV parks on the trip with poor bathrooms

10/10 would recommend. Road is a little rocky once you get off the gravel road but totally worth it. Plenty of camp spots right on the edge with an incredible view. Up there with one of the coolest spots I’ve ever stayed at.

Spending the night on the rim of canyonlands national park— Definitely one of the most magical experiences of my life setting our tents up during sunset and waking up during sunrise overlooking the vast canyon!

This campsite was easy to access. Had an amazing view and clean facilities. We would stay there again if we’re in the area.