Cottonwood Canyon Campground
1Heads up1 fire 42 mi away
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground is one of two campgrounds located within the New Joe's bouldering area. This is a world famous bouldering area and is a major draw for the local communities. There are an abundance of activities to participate in nearby. This campground is located west of the San Rafael Swell and east of the Manti-La Sal National Forest. It is centrally located and provides ample opportunities for outdoor recreation. Keep reading
Recreation
The Joe’s Valley Bouldering area offers world class bouldering opportunities with over 188 bouldering sites and 9.7 miles of social trails in the area. To the west continuing up the main road is Joe's Valley Reservoir located in the National Forest, and to the east is the San Rafael Swell. Experiences in the Swell include rock climbing, canyoneering, red rock arches, and other formations. The National Forest offers fishing and winter sports inlcuding backcountry skiing and snowmobiling. Both provide offroad experiences with varying trails for UTVs/ATVs that lead to different destinations like vistas or historical sites. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (435) 636-3600.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Ice Climbing
- Snowmobile
- Snowmobile Trails
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:38 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:38 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites
All 10 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 10 of the 10 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Cottonwood | Site 01 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 02 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 03 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 04 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 05 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 06 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 07 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 08 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 09 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
| Cottonwood | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
New Joe's CampgroundPrice Field Office · 0.0 miEquestrian CampgroundPrice Field Office · 3.9 mi
San Rafael Swinging Bridge CampgroundPrice Field Office · 4.0 miSids Mountain Wilderness - The WedgePrice Field Office · 9.2 mi
Buckhorn DrawPrice Field Office · 11 mi
Swasey's Beach Campground26 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Green River, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 68°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 10°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Cottonwood Canyon Campground is in Utah’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Kennedy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →