Colorado River Primitive Camping Between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry
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This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 55 of them walk-up
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
No reservations. Along the fifteen mile stretch of the Colorado River between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry, there are five primitive beaches set aside for camping, marked with signs, on a first-come, first-served basis. Camping is permitted in these areas only, as they are provided with toilets and fire pits. These sites can only be accessed by small vessel. All campsites are located well above the river and require a short walk from your boat.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Beach
- Night sky · 90th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Lees Ferry CampgroundGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 1.2 mi
Beehives Primitive CampgroundGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 7.1 mi
Wahweap Campground & RV ParkGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 10 mi
Antelope Point RV Park11 mi
Lone Rock Beach Primitive Camping AreaGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 11 mi
White House CampgroundKanab Field Office · 22 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Page, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 51°F, day 76°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 30°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Colorado River Primitive Camping Between Glen Canyon Dam and Lees Ferry is in Arizona’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Eli Crane (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →