Devils Canyon
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 41All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Devils Canyon Campground sits in the Manti-LaSal National Forest of southeast Utah at the foot of the Abajo Mountains. There is water available seasonally from June to September. Keep reading
Recreation
Several miles of off-road vehicle trails crisscross the Abajo Mountains. The Camp Jackson/Wagon Wheel Trail can be accessed nearby. The Abajo Loop State Scenic Backway passes by the campground. It leads from the desert floor and red rock canyons to steep mountains over 10,000 feet high, with overlooks and panoramic views. The byway is suitable for passenger vehicles from late spring through fall but is not recommended for large RVs.
Facilities
The campground contains numerous single-family sites with picnic tables and fire rings. Vault toilets and drinking water (seasonal) are provided. Showers are available eight miles south in Blanding. Firewood is limited. Parking spurs are paved. Sites # 1-5 and 8-16 are accessible and have paved areas around the fire pit and picnic table. Sites # 6 & 7 have short trails from parking spur to paved camping area and are not considered accessible. There is a 14 day stay limit at this campground.
Natural Features
Ponderosa pines, pinyon pines and juniper cover the area, offering limited shade. The campground sits at an elevation of 7,400 feet, and summer temperatures are warm in the day and cool in the evening. Birds, squirrels, chipmunks, mule deer and black bear may be seen in the area.
Nearby Attractions
Popular attractions in the area include Canyonlands, Arches and Mesa Verde National Parks, Dark Canyon Wilderness, Edge of the Cedars State Park, Lake Powell and numerous archaeological sites. Evening programs are provided at Edge of the Cedars Museum in Blanding. The San Juan County Fair is held annually in August in Monticello.
What the agency tells you
This site is often confused with the Devils Garden in Arches National Park
Click here for more information about the Manti-LaSal 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 41
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 90 ft
- Paved pads
- 38 of 41
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites with picnic tables and fire rings. Vault toilets and drinking water (seasonal) are provided. Showers…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…foot of the Abajo Mountains. There is water available seasonally from June to September. Recreation…”
- Firewood
- Mentioned
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Auto Touring
- Biking
- Hiking
- Information Site
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 110th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:09 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.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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 16:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
41 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 41 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. 41 of the 41 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| NORTH | 17 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 188 ft | 3,965 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 18 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 188 ft | 3,826 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 19 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 124 ft | 3,748 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 20 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 124 ft | 3,624 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 21 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 202 ft | 3,434 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 22 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 71 ft | 3,266 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 23 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 3,317 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 24 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 51 ft | 3,269 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 25 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 51 ft | 3,318 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 26 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 97 ft | 3,282 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 27 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 97 ft | 3,348 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 28 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 175 ft | 3,441 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 29 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 120 ft | 3,435 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 30 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 120 ft | 3,440 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 31 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 230 ft | 3,315 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 32 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 216 ft | 2,968 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 33 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 63 ft | 2,836 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 34 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 63 ft | 2,787 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 35 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 132 ft | 2,685 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 36 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 257 ft | 2,892 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 37 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 129 ft | 2,558 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 38 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 129 ft | 2,561 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 39 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 2,590 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 40 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 57 ft | 2,549 ft | $20 | |
| NORTH | 41 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 268 ft | 2,321 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 1 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 132 ft | 4,227 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 10 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 69 ft | 4,178 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 53 ft | 4,227 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 12 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 53 ft | 4,176 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 13 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 69 ft | 4,245 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 14 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 61 ft | 4,185 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 15 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 61 ft | 4,241 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 16 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 84 ft | 4,173 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 2 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | yes | 105 ft | 4,293 ft | $20 |
| SOUTH | 3 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 77 ft | 4,345 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 4 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 77 ft | 4,333 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 5 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 112 ft | 4,347 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 6 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 91 ft | 4,391 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 7 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 91 ft | 4,349 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 8 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 110 ft | 4,208 ft | $20 | |
| SOUTH | 9 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 69 ft | 4,240 ft | $20 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 41 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
NizhoniManti-La Sal National Forest · 7.7 miDalton Springs CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 9.6 mi
BuckboardManti-La Sal National Forest · 10 miFoy Lake Fishing/Camping SiteManti-La Sal National Forest · 13 miComb Wash Dispersed CampgroundBears Ears National Monument · 21 miNatural Bridges Overflow CampBears Ears National Monument · 28 miThe campground is 13 miles south of Monticello, Utah and 9 miles north of Blanding, Utah on US Highway 191. The campground is approximately 1/4-mile off the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Blanding, UT
Typical weather
Typical September night 45°F, day 75°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 45°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Devils Canyon 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 →