National Park Service · Canyonlands National Park · UT

Island in the Sky (Willow Flat) Campground

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First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 12 sites go to whoever pulls in first.

This is how it should work.

Right now
OpenThe agency lists it open
A night
$15From, per site
Sites
1212 of them walk-up
Season
Year-roundOpen year-round
6,060 ftElevation
3.5 miWater · Green River
20.9 miSW of Moab, UT
12Walk-up sites
0%Tree cover
Open year-roundToday

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Island in the Sky Campground (Willow Flat) has 12 sites, first-come, first-served. The campground is open year-round. The spectacular Green River Overlook is nearby. Nightly camping fee is $15 per site. Sites fill quickly spring through fall. There are toilets, picnic tables, and fire rings in the campground. There is no water at the campground. You can get drinking water outside the visitor center spring through fall.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets - year round
Drinking water
None, bring your own
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Around the campground

On the water
River
Night sky · 41st darkest of 458 in UT
Bortle 2
Source: Stated in the agency description

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 $15 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.

BookingNo reservationsNothing to book, and no release date to wait forthe agency’s record
A night$15Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$30DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itNational Park Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 5

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night, from$15
Camping Site$15
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$15
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$30

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($15), 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
Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

This Afternoon57°Sunny
Tonight41°Mostly Clear
Saturday59°Sunny
Saturday Night44°Partly Cloudy1% rain

NWS forecast for Moab, UT

Typical weather

Typical October night 44°F, day 65°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

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.

Measured at: CANYONLANDS-THE NECK, UT (USC00421163), 6 miles away and 189 ft lower

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.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026

Who answers for this land

Mike Kennedy, official portrait

Island in the Sky (Willow Flat) 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 →

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