Devils Garden Campground
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 5751 on recreation.gov
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Devils Garden Campground is located deep within the heart of beautiful Arches National Park in Southeastern Utah, at an elevation of approximately 5200 ft.. The campground is situated among natural sandstone arches and fins and is only 18 miles north of the park's entrance and 23 miles from Moab, Utah. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking trails are abundant in Arches, including the Broken Arch Trail, a scenic loop with a trailhead conveniently located within the campground. Trails are varied and offer something for everyone, from the easy 0.3-mile loop around Balanced Rock to the steep and strenuous 3-mile round-trip trail to Delicate Arch. Other recreational activities in the park include guided hiking tours of the Fiery Furnace, an off-road vehicle route, road biking and picnicking.
Facilities
Devils Garden contains 51 campsites that are available for reservation (Including the two group sites and one accessibility site), offering visitors a great opportunity to stay overnight in a unique national park. Roads and parking spurs are paved, allowing smooth access for all types of travelers. A campground host is located on-site. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided, and campsites contain picnic tables and fire rings. The park does not have dump stations, or electric, water, or sewer hook-ups for RVs. There are also no showers. Firewood is not for sale at the campground. Please buy a coupon for firewood at the Visitor Center.
Natural Features
The campground is forested with mixed stands of Utah juniper and pinyon pine. Flowering prickly pear cacti, yucca and other desert wildflowers dot the landscape, offering vivid color to the surrounding red rock desert. Arches National Park has the highest concentration of natural arches in the world. Over 2,500 of these unusual rock formations can be found here. Towering spires, fins and balanced rocks complement the arches, creating a remarkable assortment of landforms in a relatively small area. The park is within an arid, high desert environment with hot summers and cold winters.
Nearby Attractions
Southeastern Utah offers breathtaking scenery, hiking, road and mountain biking opportunities, rafting and scenic driving routes. Canyonlands National Park and Dead Horse Point State Park are within a 45-minute drive of Arches' entrance. Moab offers numerous restaurants, shops and museums. The desert around Moab is a mountain biker's dream, with hundreds of miles of slickrock and single-track trails for all riding abilities.
What the agency tells you
March 1st - October 31st: All campsites at Devils Garden are by reservation only. Walk-in sites are not available.
November 1st - February 28th: All campsites at Devils Garden are first-come, first-served. In the winter, this is a Scan & Pay campground. Pay via Scan & Pay or self-registration envelope. Download the free Recreation.gov mobile app on Android or iOS prior to your arrival as there is limited cell service.
*No one camper or their equipment may spend more than 7 days in this campground per month or 14 days in a year.*
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Firewood is not for sale at the campground. Please buy a coupon for firewood at the Visitor Center.
Generator hours are 8 a.m. - 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. - 8 p.m.
The park entrance fee is $30 per vehicle, $25 per motorcycle, or $15 for a pedestrian or bicyclist. The fee is valid for seven days and may be paid upon arrival or purchased in advance. Interagency annual and lifetime passes are honored.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 57 · 2 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round · Vault Toilets - year round
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are also no showers.”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- Dump station
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Night sky · 96th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Park Service says
- Spotty
Full this Saturdayread 16:21 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
Every one of the 51 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 2 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 16:21 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 · 17
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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 16:21 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
57 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 51 mapped sitesAll 57 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 52 of the 57 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. 55 of the 57 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 221 ft | 1.8 mi | 324 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 1.8 mi | 128 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 77 ft | 1.8 mi | 79 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 77 ft | 1.8 mi | 94 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 005 | type not stated | 20 ft | $25 | ||||
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 94 ft | 1.8 mi | 167 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 45 ft | 1.8 mi | 251 ft | $25 |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 45 ft | 1.8 mi | 292 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 58 ft | 1.8 mi | 336 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 56 ft | 1.8 mi | 394 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 1.8 mi | 400 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 56 ft | 1.8 mi | 449 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 82 ft | 1.8 mi | 482 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 72 ft | 1.8 mi | 537 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 1.8 mi | 608 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 65 ft | 1.8 mi | 601 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 68 ft | 1.8 mi | 605 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 79 ft | 1.8 mi | 560 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 1.8 mi | 466 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 80 ft | 1.8 mi | 501 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 84 ft | 1.8 mi | 390 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 1.8 mi | 336 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 87 ft | 1.9 mi | 227 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 024 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 87 ft | 1.9 mi | 188 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 025 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 108 ft | 1.9 mi | 192 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 026 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 40 ft | 1.9 mi | 546 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 40 ft | 1.9 mi | 505 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 028 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 72 ft | 1.9 mi | 483 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 029 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 54 ft | 1.9 mi | 417 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 1.9 mi | 416 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 031 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 1.9 mi | 332 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 43 ft | 1.9 mi | 239 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 033 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 75 ft | 1.9 mi | 239 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 034 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 43 ft | 1.9 mi | 196 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 036 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 56 ft | 1.9 mi | 151 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 038 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 56 ft | 1.9 mi | 96 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 039 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 84 ft | 1.9 mi | 64 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 040 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 81 ft | 1.9 mi | 133 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 041 | type not stated | 36 ft | 1.9 mi | 141 ft | $25 | ||
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 042 | rv nonelectric | 30 ft | 60 ft | 1.9 mi | 191 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 043 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 60 ft | 1.9 mi | 250 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 044 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 1.9 mi | 287 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 045 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 51 ft | 1.9 mi | 223 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 046 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 51 ft | 1.9 mi | 177 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 048 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 65 ft | 1.9 mi | 85 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 049 | rv nonelectric | 15 ft | 65 ft | 1.9 mi | 147 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 050 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 55 ft | 1.9 mi | 236 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 051 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 55 ft | 1.9 mi | 287 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 052 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 58 ft | 1.9 mi | 395 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 053 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 58 ft | 1.9 mi | 432 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | 054 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 85 ft | 1.9 mi | 328 ft | $25 | |
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | CANYON WREN | group tent only area nonelectric | 149 ft | 1.9 mi | 196 ft | |||
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | H4 | type not stated | 40 ft | yes | $25 | |||
| DEVILS GARDEN CAMPGROUND | JUNIPER BASIN | group tent only area nonelectric | 123 ft | 1.9 mi | 86 ft | |||
| Scan and Pay - Card Late Payment | Scan and Pay - Card Late Payment | type not stated | 20 ft | $25 | ||||
| Scan and Pay Devils Garden Campground | Scan and Pay Devils Garden Campground | type not stated | 20 ft | $25 | ||||
| type not stated | $25 |
25 of 57 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Courthouse Rock CampgroundMoab Field Office · 8.7 mi
North Klondike CampgroundMoab Field Office · 10 miUpper Big Bend CampgroundMoab Field Office · 10 mi
Big Bend Group SitesMoab Field Office · 11 miOak Grove CampgroundMoab Field Office · 11 miHal Canyon CampgroundMoab Field Office · 11 miFrom I-70, take Exit 182. Travel south for 26 miles to the park entrance. Take the park road 18 miles to Devils Garden.
From Moab, take Highway 191 north for 4.5 miles to the park entrance. Take the park road 18 miles to Devils Garden.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Castle Valley, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 68°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Devils Garden 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 →
Who can change it · 4
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The office that runs itArches National ParkNational Park Service unit
- The member who votes the moneyMike KennedyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn R. CurtisU.S. Senator · Utah
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike LeeU.S. Senator · Utah
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks the National Park Service to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up, and to post what that share is.
Subject Hold back a share of sites at Devils Garden Campground for campers who drive up
To the National Park Service, Arches National Park: I tried to camp at Devils Garden Campground in Utah and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 51 of the 57 campsites the agency files at Devils Garden Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 51 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Devils Garden Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m asking for one specific thing: set aside a published share of the sites at Devils Garden Campground as first-come, first-served, and post what that share is so it can be checked. Somebody who drives up has no way in, and no way to find out whether they might have had one. Sent about Devils Garden Campground (Arches National Park, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Devils Garden Campground, Arches National Park, Utah
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Devils Garden Campground, Arches National Park, Utah, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 51 of the 57 campsites the agency files at Devils Garden Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 51 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Devils Garden Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Devils Garden Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Devils Garden Campground (Arches National Park, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Devils Garden Campground, Arches National Park, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Devils Garden Campground, Arches National Park, Utah, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 51 of the 57 campsites the agency files at Devils Garden Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 51 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Devils Garden Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Devils Garden Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Devils Garden Campground (Arches National Park, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Devils Garden Campground, Arches National Park, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Devils Garden Campground, Arches National Park, Utah, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 51 of the 57 campsites the agency files at Devils Garden Campground, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 51 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Devils Garden Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Devils Garden Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the National Park Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Devils Garden Campground (Arches National Park, Utah) via campanac.com
How we know this · 4
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“…app on Android or iOS prior to arrival due to limited cell service. Use the Recreation.gov mobile app to pay the nightly camping…”