Hamburger Rock Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 2 of the next 30 nights read 14:23 UTC
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hamburger Rock Campground is a good option for visitors wishing to recreate in the Indian Creek area of Bears Ears National Monument or be close to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. The campground is located north off the Needles Highway (accessed from Utah State Route 211), approximately 3 miles southeast of Canyonlands National Park and 17 miles northwest of Newspaper Rock. The campground provides 10 campsites that each feature a tent/trailer space, a picnic table, a fire ring, and vault toilets. Each campsite can hold 10 people and 2 vehicles. There is no drinking water at the campground. Reservations are not available for camping at this location. Campsites are available on a first come, first served basis upon arrival at the self-register kiosk at the site. The Indian Creek area is generally primitive and undeveloped, with few services. Keep reading
Recreation
The Indian Creek area of Bears Ears National Monument has gained international recognition for its extraordinary natural beauty and recreational opportunities. The Indian Creek canyon opens to a broad valley rimmed by Wingate Sandstone cliffs known for world-class rock climbing. Prominent geologic features include Lavender Mesa, Bridger Jack Mesa, and North and South Six Shooter Peaks. This spectacular setting and rich archeological resources provide visitors with recreational opportunities such as rock climbing, camping, cultural resource viewing, scenic photography, and off-highway vehicle (OHV) touring on designated routes.
Natural Features
The campsites are situated at the base of the Hamburger Rock geologic feature, a red sandstone monolith. A few of the sites are shaded by small juniper trees, but most are shaded only by the rock itself.
Nearby Attractions
Newspaper Rock Needles District of Canyonlands National Park Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (435) 587-1500.
Charges & Cancellations
No refunds are available.
What the agency tells you
There are limited services in the Indian Creek area. Make sure to bring plenty of water and supplies.
Wood collection is not allowed. You must bring your own firewood.
There is no cell service at this location.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…space, a picnic table, a fire ring, and vault toilets. Each campsite can hold 10 people and 2 vehicles.…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…can hold 10 people and 2 vehicles. There is no drinking water at the campground. Reservations are not available…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Climbing
- Scenic drives
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 37 km away
- Peak color
Full this Saturdayread 14:23 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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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.
“No refunds are available.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 14:23 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 10 of the 10 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. 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.
| 1 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 7.7 mi | 361 ft | $15 |
| 10 | standard nonelectric | 149 ft | 7.7 mi | 679 ft | $15 |
| 2 | standard nonelectric | 130 ft | 7.7 mi | 450 ft | $15 |
| 3 | standard nonelectric | 112 ft | 7.7 mi | 556 ft | $15 |
| 4 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 7.7 mi | 614 ft | $15 |
| 5 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 7.7 mi | 747 ft | $15 |
| 6 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 7.7 mi | 697 ft | $15 |
| 7 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 7.7 mi | 541 ft | $15 |
| 8 | standard nonelectric | 104 ft | 7.7 mi | 454 ft | $15 |
| 9 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 7.7 mi | 306 ft | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Indian Creek Falls Group SiteBears Ears National Monument · 1.0 mi
Creek Pasture Group SiteBears Ears National Monument · 2.4 mi
Creek Pasture CampgroundBears Ears National Monument · 2.7 mi
Superbowl CampgroundBears Ears National Monument · 4.1 mi
Superbowl Group SiteBears Ears National Monument · 4.2 mi
Canyonlands National Park Needles District CampgroundCanyonlands National Park · 5.2 miTurn west off U.S. Route 191 onto Utah State Route 211 and travel approximately 29.1 miles. Turn onto the Lockhart Basin Rd on the north side of the highway. The campground is located 1.2 miles down the maintained, gravel road on the east side of the road.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Sal, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January 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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Hamburger Rock 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 · 3
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 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 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 Hamburger Rock Campground, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Hamburger Rock Campground, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, and couldn’t. All 10 sites at Hamburger Rock Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hamburger Rock Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hamburger Rock Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Hamburger Rock Campground (Bears Ears National Monument, 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 Hamburger Rock Campground, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Hamburger Rock Campground, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, and couldn’t. All 10 sites at Hamburger Rock Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hamburger Rock Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hamburger Rock Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Hamburger Rock Campground (Bears Ears National Monument, 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 Hamburger Rock Campground, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Hamburger Rock Campground, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, and couldn’t. All 10 sites at Hamburger Rock Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hamburger Rock Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hamburger Rock Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management 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 Hamburger Rock Campground (Bears Ears National Monument, Utah) via campanac.com