Cedar Canyon
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 19All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cedar Canyon Campground is located conveniently close to Cedar City, Utah, only 11 miles east. Visitors can enjoy hiking, biking and day-tripping to nearby Cedar Breaks National Monument. Keep reading
Recreation
Cedar Canyon is just 8 miles from Cedar Breaks National Monument, with hiking trails, guided tours and breathtaking scenery. Just outside Cedar Breaks is the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness Area, where hikers will find 10 miles of trails and the Twisted Forest, a stand of ancient bristlecone pine. The 34-mile Virgin River Rim Trail is located near the campground with a short drive for access and is open to hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding.
Facilities
The campground offers a small group site and several family sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided but no showers are available. Roads and spurs are paved. OHV/ATV's including street legal are not allowed in the campground.
Natural Features
Crow Creek flows alongside the campground, which is settled on the western edge of the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 8,100 feet. A forest of fir and aspen covers the site, providing shade in most campsites.
Nearby Attractions
Cedar Canyon is close to many areas with excellent recreational opportunities. Navajo Lake and Duck Lake are both within 20 minutes, offering boating, canoeing and fishing. The Markagunt ATV Trail System is easily accessed 5 miles to the east. OHV's are not allowed in the campground.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
No electric, water or sewer hookups
A fee will be charged at the campground for extra vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 5
ATV/OHV 's are not allowed in Cedar Canyon campground, they must be trailered at all times.
Click here for more information on Dixie National Forest
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.CedarCity@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 5 of 19
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…group site and several family sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided but no showers are…”
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “Vault toilets and drinking water are provided but no showers are available.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…several family sites. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided but no showers are available. Roads…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Scenic drives
- Night sky · 314th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 9.1 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
Tell me when the season opens
Watch for the season to open
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$50 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
19 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 19 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 19 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 19 of the 19 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| CEDA | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 200 ft | 106 ft | 404 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 121 ft | 38 ft | 170 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 89 ft | 137 ft | 220 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 004 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 121 ft | 45 ft | 91 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 005 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 89 ft | 169 ft | 133 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 95 ft | 42 ft | 166 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 007 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 95 ft | 54 ft | 249 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 008 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 116 ft | 59 ft | 364 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 161 ft | 209 ft | 326 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 119 ft | 64 ft | 485 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 119 ft | 96 ft | 594 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 196 ft | 39 ft | 937 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 196 ft | 222 ft | 887 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 014 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 302 ft | 47 ft | 481 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 148 ft | 179 ft | 201 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 016 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 145 ft | 27 ft | 146 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 017 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 145 ft | 157 ft | 57 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 175 ft | 198 ft | 135 ft | $25–$50 |
| CEDA | 019 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 235 ft | 118 ft | 331 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Deer HavenDixie National Forest · 1.3 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 4.2 mi
TE-AHDixie National Forest · 6.4 mi
Navajo Lake CampgroundDixie National Forest · 7.9 mi
Spruces Campground (Dixie NF)Dixie National Forest · 8.7 mi
Pyramid Ridge CampgroundCedar City Field Office · 11 miFrom Cedar City, Utah, take Highway 14 east for 11 miles. Campground is located just below the S turn on your left.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Brian Head, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 17°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Cedar Canyon is in Utah’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Celeste Maloy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →