Goose Island Campground
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Riverside camping for tents, RV's and trailers. Individual sites are available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Two reservable group sites are available through Recreation.gov. The campsites offer spectacular views of the Colorado River and the massive red rock cliffs of Arches National Park. This campground is very popular due to its proximity to Moab, its shade in the summer and the beautiful scenery. Typically fills in the morning, from March-October. (Do not enter the river without the required life jackets; it has dangerous under currents.) Individual Sites: 20 (limited to 10 people & two vehicles per site) Group Sites: 2 (reservable) Water: No Toilets: Yes Hook-ups: No
Facilities
- Toilets
- Yes, the record doesn't say what kind
- “Toilets: Yes”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…per site) Group Sites: 2 (reservable) Water: No Toilets: Yes Hook-ups: No”
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first, and a night costs $20 with nothing added. 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 · 6
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($20), and no booking fee, because this campground takes no reservations. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the phone number
Where it is
Goose Island Group Sites0.0 miGrandstaff CampgroundMoab Field Office · 1.3 miSand Flats Recreation Area CG AMoab Field Office · 3.1 miSand Flats Recreation Area CG DMoab Field Office · 3.2 mi
Sand Flats Recreation Area Group Campsites3.3 miSand Flats Recreation Area CG EMoab Field Office · 3.7 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Moab, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 74°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 21°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
Goose Island 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 →