North Klondike Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:28 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 27All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
The North Klondike Campground is a mountain biker's paradise with campsites situated a short bike ride away from the North Klondike trail system. You will also find yourself camped within easy reach of other world renowned Moab mountain bike trail systems as well as the many other outdoor recreation opportunities the area has to offer. While relaxing in the evening at your campsite you will be treated to views of the La Sal mountains and Klondike Bluffs. The main campground with non-group campsites is available on a first-come, first-served basis only. Keep reading
You are required to physically arrive at the campground to pay for and claim a site. Once on-site, you can pay for your campsite by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app. You will need to download the free Recreation.gov mobile app on Android or iOS. This is best done prior to your arrival. There are two group campsites available for reservation. Your camping fees pay for campground maintenance and improvements.
Recreation
The Klondike Bluffs trail system offers 50+ miles of singletrack mountain bike trails ranging from fast flowy single track to tight and technical riding opportunities. While mountain biking is the focus of this area, The North Klondike Campground is within easy reach of Arches and Canyonlands National Parks as well as hundreds of miles of 4x4, ATV, side-by-side and motorcycle trails.
Facilities
There are 25 individual campsites at the North Klondike Campground. Each campsite has a gravel parking pad for two vehicles (vehicle pulling a trailer = two vehicles), picnic table, fire ring, and close proximity to a vault toilet and trash receptacle. There are two group campsites. Each campsite has a gravel parking pad for up to six vehicles, fire ring, BBQ grill, picnic tables, shade shelter and close proximity to vault toilets and trash recepacles. Site A is on the left and Site B is on the right as you enter. There is no drinking water or electricity hook ups at this campground. During Spring and Fall a campground host may be stationed at this campground. Campground hosts assist visitors with acquiring a campsite, trip planning, and campground etiquette education.
Natural Features
The North Klondike Campground offers spectacular views of Copper Ridge and surrounding bluffs as well as the distant La Sal mountains. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (435) 259-2100.
Nearby Attractions
Copper Ridge Dinosaur Tracks and the Dinosaur Stomping Grounds trailheads are within 1 mile of the campground. Arches and Canyonlands National Parks and Hovenweep and Natural Bridges National Monuments are nearby. Also in the area are the Manti-La Sal National Forest and the La Sal Mountain Loop Road, which provide interesting exploration opportunities and cooler temperatures during the summer months.
Charges & Cancellations
Please contact the BLM Moab Field Office for assistance with changes and cancellations at 435-259-2100. Changes You can make changes to a reservation through your online Recreation.gov user account any time prior to the arrival/first date of the reservation. There is a $10 change fee If you wish to change to dates entirely outside of the original reservation dates. There is no change fee if you wish to extend or shorten the original reservation as long as the first day of your reservation stays the same. You cannot make changes to your reservation after the arrival/first day through your Recreation.gov account. However, the BLM Moab Field Office may be able to assist you, 435-259-2100. For reservations with dates at the end of the available booking window (a.k.a. sliding window), you will not be able to make changes or cancellations until the site has been available to the general public for four days. Cancellations Please cancel your reservation if you do not plan to use it. This opens highly sought campsites for others to reserve. You can cancel your reservation online through your Recreation.gov user account or through the call center (call center incurs an additional fee). You may also contact the BLM Moab Field Office for assistance. A $10 service fee will be withheld from any refund for a cancellation. Late Cancellations A late cancellation occurs less the 14 days before the arrival/first date of the reservation (a.k.a. cut-off window). A $10.00 cancellation fee AND forfeit the first night's fees if cancelled less than 14 days before the arrival date (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). There are no refunds, modifications, cancellations, or other fee changes allowed with Scan & Pay payments. Early Departures If you spend at least one night and then leave prior to the scheduled departure check-out date, please contact the BLM Moab Field Office (435-259-2100) to open the remaining nights for others to use. You will not be able to cancel these nights through your Recreation.gov account. If customers request an early departure after the facility check-out time, the customer will not receive a refund for that night. No-Shows A No Show occurs if you do not arrive at your campsite or cancel your reservation by check-out time (Noon) on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Campgrounds are inconsistently staffed by volunteers and there is no guarantee that your site will be available on the second day. Refunds You can submit a refund request through your Recreation.gov account within 7 days of the departure/end date of your reservation. Applicable fees, such as the Recreation.gov reservation fees, service/cancellation fees, lottery application fees, and change fees, are non-refundable. Refunds cannot be issued to any card other than the one used to pay. In the event of an emergency closure, all fees will be refunded. Attempts will be made to notify you using the contact information within your Recreation.gov customer profile. Interagency Pass Discounts Interagency Pass discounts do not apply to group campsite reservations.
What the agency tells you
Individual campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis only. You are required to physically arrive at the campground to pay for and claim a site. Once on-site, you can pay for your campsite(s) by scanning a QR code using the Recreation.gov mobile app. You will need to download the free Recreation.gov mobile app on Android or iOS. This is best done prior to your arrival. Maximum group size of 10 people and 2 vehicles. Interagency Pass Discounts The following are the only Interagency Passes that provide a discount on camping reservations and some tickets: Senior Annual Pass Senior Lifetime Pass Access Pass Golden Age Pass Golden Access Pass Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. The holder of the pass must occupy the site for which the discount is applied. The pass can only be used for one site during a time period.
Group campsites A and B are available for advance reservation. Maximum group size is 20 people and 6 vehicles. Interagency Pass Discounts do not apply to group campsites Reservation calendars are posted weekly on the kiosk near the fee tube or adjacent to the group site.
Consider always leaving something at your campsite to show it is occupied.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Gusty winds are possible; ALWAYS secure your tents and camping gear.
Ravens, chipmunks and other wildlife frequent the sites; NEVER leave food or trash unattended.
Summer thunderstorms can cause flash flooding and gusty winds; stay aware of current weather.
There are no showers, electricity, or drinking water at these sites but they are available in the town of Moab.
Generator hours are from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm. Quiet hours are from 10:00 pm to 6:00 am
Wedding ceremonies and receptions require a Letter of Acknowledgement from the Moab Field Office. Call 435-259-2100 for more information.
No amplified music.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 27 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 1 of 27 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets · Pit Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 7 of 27 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 1 of 27 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and Site B is on the right as you enter. There is no drinking water or electricity hook ups at this campground. During…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- Biking
- Hiking
- Information Site
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Night sky · 62nd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 15:28 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
Every one of the 2 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 2 are free on Mon, Oct 19. read 15:28 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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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.
“Changes You can make changes to a reservation through your online Recreation.gov user account any time prior to the arrival/first date of the reservation. - There is a $10 change fee If you wish to change to dates entirely outside of the original reservation dates. - There is no change fee if you wish to extend or s…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 15:28 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
27 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 27 mapped sitesAll 27 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 27 of the 27 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. 2 of the 27 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| North Klondike | Group Site A | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 64 ft | 1,132 ft | 114 ft | $100 |
| North Klondike | Group Site B | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 1,071 ft | 55 ft | $100 |
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 10 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,989 ft | 184 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 11 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 1,933 ft | 241 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 12 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 1,849 ft | 270 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 13 | standard nonelectric | 81 ft | 1,829 ft | 210 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 14 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 81 ft | 1,748 ft | 285 ft | |
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 15 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 1,786 ft | 322 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 16 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 1,891 ft | 219 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 17 | standard nonelectric | 78 ft | 1,885 ft | 174 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 18 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 1,973 ft | 75 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 19 | standard nonelectric | 120 ft | 2,107 ft | 71 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 2 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 202 ft | 2,962 ft | 607 ft | |
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 20 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 2,086 ft | 110 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 21 | standard nonelectric | 88 ft | 2,172 ft | 158 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 22 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 2,234 ft | 292 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 23 | standard nonelectric | 87 ft | 2,268 ft | 215 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 24 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 2,380 ft | 175 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 25 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 2,389 ft | 270 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 133 ft | 2,755 ft | 333 ft | |
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 4 | standard nonelectric | 133 ft | 2,625 ft | 230 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 5 | standard nonelectric | 214 ft | 2,503 ft | 71 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 6 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 194 ft | 2,307 ft | 180 ft | |
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 7 | standard nonelectric | 190 ft | 2,160 ft | 235 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 8 | standard nonelectric | 244 ft | 1,981 ft | 131 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground 9 | standard nonelectric | 333 ft | 1,760 ft | 453 ft | ||
| North Klondike | North Klondike Campground site 1 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 202 ft | 3,097 ft | 798 ft |
25 of 27 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Courthouse Rock CampgroundMoab Field Office · 7.3 mi
Devils Garden CampgroundArches National Park · 10 mi
Lone Mesa Group SitesMoab Field Office · 13 mi
Horsethief Group SitesMoab Field Office · 17 mi
Horsethief CampgroundMoab Field Office · 17 miCowboy Camp CampgroundMoab Field Office · 18 miFrom Interstate 70 take exit 182 for Crescent Junction/Moab. Head south on US 191 for 8.6 miles. Turn left turn on to BLM road 143 immediately crossing over the railroad tracks. Follow signs for North Klondike Bluffs. Stay on maintained dirt road for 1 mile following signs to the campground and trailheads.
From Moab drive 23 miles north on 191 and turn right on to BLM road 143 immediately crossing over the railroad tracks. Follow signs for North Klondike Bluffs. Stay on maintained dirt road for 1 mile following signs to the campground and trailheads.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Thompson Springs, 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
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
North Klondike 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 North Klondike Campground, Moab Field Office, Utah
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at North Klondike Campground, Moab Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 27 sites at North Klondike Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Klondike Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run North Klondike 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 North Klondike Campground (Moab Field Office, 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 North Klondike Campground, Moab Field Office, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at North Klondike Campground, Moab Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 27 sites at North Klondike Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Klondike Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run North Klondike 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 North Klondike Campground (Moab Field Office, 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 North Klondike Campground, Moab Field Office, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at North Klondike Campground, Moab Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 27 sites at North Klondike Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. North Klondike Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run North Klondike 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 North Klondike Campground (Moab Field Office, Utah) via campanac.com