Navajo Lake Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $23–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Navajo Lake Campground, located on the south shore of Navajo Lake, it provides a spectacular setting for boating, camping, fishing, hiking, biking and photography. Boat rentals, launching, and cabin lodging are available at nearby Navajo Lake Lodge. The Virgin River Rim Trail is accessible from the campground; it offers panoramic views of Zion National Park, Virgin River Rim and the Kolob Plateau. Keep reading
Recreation
Navajo Lake offers great canoeing, kayaking and fishing. Hiking and biking are popular activities as well. The 32-mile Virgin River Rim Trail passes a short distance from the campground and is open to hiking, mountain biking, foot travel and horseback riding. The Navajo Lake loop trail is accessed from the campground on the Navajo Lake trail. The Navajo Lake Loop trail is very popular with cyclist and is an 11 mile loop.
Facilities
Navajo Lake Campground features 15 single sites, one double site and 11 walk-in tent only sites. Each site has a fire ring and a picnic table. Drinking water is available through spigots, there are flush toilets and a accessible vault toilet. This is not a large campground but the coziness is what makes it a very special place as you see the sun come up over the lake. There is a primitive (dirt) boat landing located within the campground for smaller vessels. OHV/ATVs including street legal are allowed for ingress and egress (to and from your campsite to the road) only. Joy riding is not allowed in the campground or on the beach.
Natural Features
Navajo Lake dike was constructed many years ago to provide area visitors with an excellent recreational experience that provides fishing and boating for all ages. The dike is a very popular place to catch fish in the deeper waters if you are fishing from shore. Water travels from under the the lake through a 2 mile lava tube and exits at what is called Cascade Falls. Cascade Falls is a must see trail that follows the rim 3/4 miles to the falls.
Nearby Attractions
Boat rentals, a boat dock, rustic cabin lodging is available at nearby Navajo Lake Lodge. Duck Creek Pond is seven miles east, with excellent fishing. The Duck Creek Visitor Center was used years ago as an Ranger Station in the 1930's through the 1960's although some of the buildings have been removed the Visitor Center still stands and is managed by volunteers that can porvide you with all the area informaion you would like. For OHV trail information see the Dixie National Forest website. Cedar Breaks National Monument is 10 miles away, with hiking trails, guided tours and breathtaking scenery. Just outside Cedar Breaks is the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness Area, where hikers will find miles of trails and the Twisted Forest which is a stand of ancient bristlecone pine.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
Click here for more information about Dixie National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 4
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.
OHV/ATV's including street legal are allowed for ingress and egress only (from your campsite to the road and back). No joy riding in the campground is allowed. OHV/ATV's are not allowed on the beach.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.CedarCity@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27 · 11 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…is available through spigots, there are flush toilets and a accessible vault toilet. This is not a large…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…site has a fire ring and a picnic table. Drinking water is available through spigots, there are flush…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Kayaking
- Swimming
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 197th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 14 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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.
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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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$60 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
28 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 27 mapped sitesAll 28 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 27 of the 28 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Lower | 12 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 68 ft | 377 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 13 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 61 ft | 403 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 14 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 46 ft | 316 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 15 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 59 ft | 342 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 46 ft | 274 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 17 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 59 ft | 354 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 18 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 55 ft | 416 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 19 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 95 ft | 290 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 20 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 77 ft | 245 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 21 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 94 ft | 199 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 22 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 82 ft | 152 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 23 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 77 ft | 198 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 24 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 98 ft | 115 ft | $23 |
| Lower | 25 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 55 ft | 424 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 26 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 71 ft | 450 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 27 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 69 ft | 483 ft | $30–$60 |
| Lower | 28 - Host | host pad | 30 ft | 530 ft | ||
| Upper | 01 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 74 ft | 521 ft | $30–$60 |
| Upper | 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 74 ft | 568 ft | $30–$60 |
| Upper | 03 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 45 ft | 667 ft | $30–$60 |
| Upper | 04 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 75 ft | 642 ft | $30–$60 |
| Upper | 05 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 98 ft | 805 ft | $23 |
| Upper | 06 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 98 ft | 812 ft | $23 |
| Upper | 07 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 71 ft | 913 ft | $23 |
| Upper | 08 | tent only nonelectric | 10 ft | 71 ft | 954 ft | $23 |
| Upper | 09 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 93 ft | 703 ft | $30–$60 |
| Upper | 10 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 93 ft | 622 ft | $30–$60 |
| Upper | 11 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 45 ft | 625 ft | $30–$60 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 28 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Spruces Campground (Dixie NF)Dixie National Forest · 0.8 mi
TE-AHDixie National Forest · 1.5 miDuck Creek CampgroundDixie National Forest · 5.0 mi
Duck CreekDixie National Forest · 5.7 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 6.6 mi
Deer HavenDixie National Forest · 7.5 miGo east from Cedar City on Scenic Byway SR 14, 25 miles to the Navajo Lake road turnoff to the south. Follow the Navajo Lake road 5 miles to Navajo Lake campground.
The weather
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Forecast
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The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Navajo Lake Campground is in Utah’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Celeste Maloy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →