Best Campgrounds near Thompson, UT

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.

This site is right of the highway and very easy to access. The first chunk of road is a little rocky but it’s very mild after that. We were in a 4wd vehicle. You can definitely hear the highway, but light pollution is quite minimal. It’s a dirt biking area, so there were a few people zipping by in the evening, but not too disruptive.

Really nice place to stay lot of space. Lot of people to but really calm. If you are close to the Hwy you can hear some noise but it’s not that bad. Really near to Arches Np and Canyonlands Np.

This is a well-run Utah State Park. The sites have a lot of room. First time visiting here was in September. Now we were back in March to have access to showers and potable water before the next stop. Super empty, so very quiet. Not as pretty as in the summer as all the trees are bare and the grass is brown. Having had no shower for a few days, we were looking forward to hot showers. They were just barely hot, which was a disappointment. The other thing we noticed this time that we missed last time is that in the older loop with big trees the electrical boxes are on the passenger side. It worked out for us, but make sure your cord is long enough. Bathrooms clean, just wish the showers had been a tad hotter (and it was a cold day!).

Not a lot going on here, mostly just a flat desert but that’s exactly what we wanted here and it was great. Very easy car camping spot, roads were gravely but not bad. Stars were amazing and it’s quite close to Moab.

Good place to go for a two or four wheel adventure. Lots of hiking and riding trails. Not very remote which has pros and cons. The area is very clean and well maintained. Simple, scattered bathrooms (no showers) at trailhead. Each North Rabbit Valley spot has a table and firepit with a beautiful view.

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!

Got here right before sunset and just stayed the night. Road was a bit bumpy, we got one of the first few spots with our 2wd camper van. Not much traffic through the night, plenty of cow friends!

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!

Great spot for exploring north of Moab. Big CG lots of spots to choose from. Quiet in spring! It’s $25 a night can pay with CC or cash at the entrance

I only have it 3 stars because it's nothing but a desert dirt lot for parking, you know like most of the desert SW. Otherwise, it's perfect for solar, wind energy. Perfect for Starlink, satellite tv/Internet and you are close to Moab, a fairly interesting town. We parked here for a few weeks in our van. Watched the daily sky divers, that was always cool. Great sunsets and sunrises.

Bumpy road with sand at the entrance. No amenity’s. Great for dark sky and privacy.

Couldn’t be more perfect if you loved train horns blasting at intersections and coal cars rolling by combined with a steady hum of highway traffic from your cozy dirt pull out.

There are millions of acres of public land around here. This site is something I will not visit again. If I would’ve known better, I would’ve driven down the road another few miles. Looks like there is more camping that direction.

This place was great. We had initially planned to boondock elsewhere but found this location close to both Arches and Canyonlands and some online reviews that mentioned being good for bigger RVs. When we first rolled in, we saw a lot of toy haulers and other rigs with ORV’s- I thought it was going to be loud and and dusty. I was wrong. We drove further to find a site- our map showed a large loop we could turn around on if we didn’t see anything. The further in we got the better the road became and we found many well auto camp spots with tables and metal fire rings. It’s posted to only camp in spots where there are rings- we found that several people ignored this ¯_(ツ)_/¯ We ended up grabbing. A spot that was essentially a pull through and gave us a stunning view and at least 100 yards from our nearest neighbor. Initially I was irritated by the 15$ fee but thought better of it given the well cared for road, many portable toilets as well as vault toilets throughout the park. I saw a ranger patrol which made us feel safer. We were able to let our dog off lead although as with most desert locations- there were stickers and cactus galore. There is definitely wildlife roaming around. Great place to stay a few days or longer if you’re set up well. We only heard one person running a generator and it wasn’t loud enough to disturb our stay.

It was quite a drive in, we just got parked on the edge of the campsite as the smaller roads leading into the campsite looked a bit uneven for our campervan. You do drive passed a paid campsite initially, keep on driving. We had the place to ourselves.