Demotte
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $30From, per site
- Sites
- 38All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
The DeMotte Campground is located within the North Kaibab Ranger District just seven miles north of the entrance to the Grand Canyon National Park's North Rim. This is about 25 miles south of the Kaibab Plateau Visitor Center on Arizona’s Highway 67. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors to the DeMotte Campground enjoy camping and picnicking, sight-seeing and wildlife viewing. Enjoy a visit to the North Rim from mid-May through mid-October; the road is closed during winter. Hiking trails, spruce-fir and Ponderosa pine forests and unparalleled views of one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World.
Facilities
The campground offers 38 single-family campsites with tables and cooking grills. DeMotte's campsites can accommodate tents, trailers and small motor homes. No utility hookups are available at this campground. Drinking water is available.
Natural Features
Many species of wildlife call the Kaibab home, including the tassel-eared Kaibab squirrel, found nowhere else in the world, and numerous species of birds. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (928) 537-8888.
Nearby Attractions
The North Rim of the Grand Canyon National Park.
What the agency tells you
Potable (drinking) water is limited. Filling RV water tanks is not permitted.
Standard Single Family sites: Recreation Use Fee allows ONE camping unit ONLY.
Extra Vehicles: Cannot be paid for in advance - upon arrival coordinate with the host for payment and where to park.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Late Arrivals: campers are not considered a "no-show" until 24 hours after arrival date check in time. Our policy is that your site will not be released before that.
Don't Move Firewood: Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
No hookups available.
This is a high elevation facility: use caution when traveling from lower elevations.
Bears frequent the area: please obey all food storage rules and regulations. Check with your host for details.
Opening and closing dates are weather permitting, please call 928-537-8888 for more information.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 38 · 7 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are available at this campground. Drinking water is available. Natural Features Many species of…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- Night sky · darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 1
- Fall color · reported 5 days ago, 39 km away
- No change
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $30 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
38 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 38 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. 38 of the 38 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 1.0 mi | $30 | |
| Loop A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 5,250 ft | $30 | |
| Loop A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 5,153 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 59 ft | 5,199 ft | $30 | |
| Loop A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 5,101 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 72 ft | 5,172 ft | $30 | |
| Loop A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 80 ft | 5,147 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 41 ft | 5,038 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 41 ft | 5,068 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 5,009 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 38 ft | 5,040 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 4,996 ft | $30 |
| Loop A | 021 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 5,035 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 022 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 4,773 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 48 ft | 4,784 ft | $30 |
| Loop B | 024 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 48 ft | 4,810 ft | $30 |
| Loop B | 025 | tent only nonelectric | 57 ft | 4,859 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 026 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 4,919 ft | $30 |
| Loop B | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 71 ft | 4,854 ft | $30 |
| Loop B | 028 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 4,973 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 029 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 4,901 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 030 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 4,983 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 031 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 4,911 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 032 | tent only nonelectric | 77 ft | 4,901 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 033 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 4,780 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 034 | tent only nonelectric | 88 ft | 4,808 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 035 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 4,658 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 036 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 4,650 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 037 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 4,733 ft | $30 | |
| Loop B | 038 | tent only nonelectric | 105 ft | 4,679 ft | $30 |
25 of 38 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
North Rim Campground (AZ)Grand Canyon National Park · 15 mi
Big Springs Cabin SiteGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 18 mi
Jacob Lake Recreation AreaGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 20 miJacob Lake Group Campground & Picnic SiteGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 21 mi
Trailer Village RV Park - South RimGrand Canyon National Park · 25 mi
Mather CampgroundGrand Canyon National Park · 25 miFrom Kanab, UT the facility is 40 miles (35 miles from Fredonia, AZ) south on U.S. Route 89A to AZ State Route 67, at Jacob Lake. Then south 25 miles on AZ State Route 67 to DeMotte campground.
From Bitter Springs intersection of U.S. 89 and 89A. Take 89A north 55 miles to Jacob Lake. Then south 25 miles on AZ State Route 67 to DeMotte campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Grand Canyon Village, AZ
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 56°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December 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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Demotte 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 →