Oct 8, 2020

Our intention was to stay at Hunter Canyon Campground and found it full on a Thursday morning.  If you travel further on the dirt road, you will find 4 additional campgrounds, Ledge A-D.  We arrived at 10:30am and there was only three sites available at Ledge B (Ledge A was closed for renovation).  We quickly made camp and continued to find people circling all day and night hoping to find a place to camp.  

Ledge B had pit toilets and a very large dumpster for trash. We travel in a class B campervan and never needed to use the toilets.  The dumpster was overflowing and appeared not to have been emptied all summer. By the end of our time there (3 nights), people were leaving trash next to the dumpster.  The area was extremely overcrowded , some campsites had 7-8 cars in it.  It was a party atmosphere and very noisy on the first night, but the 2nd night, things had calmed down significantly. I think COVID had more people out than usual during October.  I would not consider this location as a good spot for families.

The saving grace for this place is the natural beauty.  Every single place you look is gorgeous cliffs and canyons, they almost didn't look real.  The drive to the campground is on dirt roads with some steep drop offs with cliffs.  There are 2 hairpin turns that appear worse than they are, since they paved that portion of the road.  The campsite had a fire pit and a table and was very level.  No cell service, it is about 8 miles to Moab and takes about 30 minutes to get there.

Bottom line, loved the views and location, didn't love the crowd.