Rabbit Valley
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 15:33 UTC
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 77All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Five distinct campgrounds within Rabbit Valley were built for different user-types, from tent camping sites that retain a secluded feel to large group sites that can accommodate large RVs and trailers. See the “Recreation” section under the Facility Information tab to find a campground that will meet your needs. For each campsite, visitors need to read the allowable equipment section for vehicle length and number limitations for their selected site(s). Please note, roads are not maintained and can be narrow and rough. Access to Knowles Overlook is through a dry stream bed and changes quickly with passing storms. Keep reading
4-wheel drive and high clearance may be needed to access Knowles Overlook. The best sites for RVs are the Koniklos (Equestrian) and Fluffle campgrounds and select High North sites. Located in western Colorado, the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area offers stunning views and endless recreational opportunities ranging from camping, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, and off-roading. Visit Rabbit Valley for an amazing outdoor family adventure or to find solitude on an amazing landscape. The newly expanded campsites and facilities are located with easy access to I-70 and within minutes of the City of Fruita and Grand Junction, Colorado for access to local amenities. Fees associated with camping are directly invested in the maintenance, improvements, and development of the Rabbity Valley experience. Reservations are required for all camping within Rabbit Valley.
Recreation
Rabbit Valley offers recreational opportunities for every user. Bring your ATV, motorcycle, mountain bike or horse and enjoy the expansive beauty of Western Colorado. Enjoy a camping trip with friends or family in the endless beauty of the canyons. Campgrounds by User-Type Fluffle Campground Groups sites with varying capacities that can accommodate up to five vehicles (see individual campsite descriptions for vehicle limitations). Sites can accommodate vehicles up to 60 feet in length. There are day-use trailer parking spaces and a 4-pen corral here as well. High North Campground Site one is a group use site that can accommodate vehicles up to 60 feet in length. Vehicles longer than 50 feet will want to consider approaching the campground from the north via Hwy-6 as the access road from I-70 requires navigating a tight switchback turn. All other sites can accommodate two vehicles of various lengths, see individual site details for vehicle length limitations. Koniklos (Equestrian) Campground This campground is intended to be used solely by visitors who visit Rabbit Valley for horseback riding. Each site has an individual corral. There are also 10 day-use parking areas and 2 corrals for day-use. Campsites can accommodate two vehicles up to 60 feet in length. The road to this campsite is through a rocky wash and is not easily accessed by low-clearance vehicles. Additional day-use parking and horse corrals are available at the Fluffle Campground. Jouflas Campground This campground is intended for tent camping. No group sites. The campground can not accommodate vehicles longer than 25 feet. Knowles Overlook Campground This campground is intended to be used by tent and 'overland' style campers. Maximum vehicle length is 30 feet - HIGH CLEARANCE AND 4X4 ARE STRONGLY RECOMMENDED. Be weather weary in visiting this campsite as access is through a wash. No group sites.
Natural Features
Rabbit Valley Area is nestled among scattered juniper trees at the edge of the Colorado Plateau. With scenic views of the Colorado River, the San Juan and La Sal Mountains, the Colorado National Monument, and the western flanks of the 10,000 ft. Grand Mesa - the largest flat-topped mountain in the world, make this a must-see area. This area is known for its paleontological resources with the family friendly hike the “Trail Trough Time.” Here you can learn about this area’s history and experience dinosaur bones on the landscape through a self-guided interpretive hike. Vegetation here is sparse, with only occasional green-ups and wildflower blooms following wet weather. Average annual precipitation is less than 10 inches. Temperature extremes range from below zero to 105 degrees Fahrenheit. Temperatures are more moderate during the spring and fall.
Nearby Attractions
The Rabbit Valley Area is just west of Fruita CO, which serves as a hub for outdoor recreation on nearby public lands including the red-rock canyons of Colorado National Monument, and the rest of the McInnis Canyons National Conservation Area (MCNCA) - home of the Kokopelli trail system, the Ruby-Horsethief section of the Colorado River, Black Ridge Canyons Wilderness and the Rabbit Valley recreation area. The Monument and MCNCA along with the other public lands surrounding the Grand Valley - formed by the Colorado River flowing between Palisade to Loma - offer something for everyone, from scenic drives to hiking, horseback riding, biking, rafting, rock climbing, wildlife viewing, and off-roading. The Grand Valley is also well-known for its orchards, vineyards and wineries, and the distinct and vibrant communities of Palisade, Grand Junction, and Fruita.
Charges & Cancellations
Changes may be made to your reservation until 24 hours before the reserved date. A full refund, minus the $8 reservation fee, will be given if canceled 48 hours before the first reserved date. Please note, you cannot change your check-in date. If you would like to change your check-in date, you will need to cancel your entire reservation and rebook. Refunds will not be given for undesirable weather or road conditions.
What the agency tells you
Rabbit Valley is a multiple-use area where respect earns respect. You are representing your user-group here. All users are expected to yield to equestrians. Expect other people around blind corners on the trail. Keep your speed low on full-sized roads. Roads are not maintained and may be rough. Access to Knowles Overlook may require high clearance and 4-wheel drive. Rabbit Valley is located in the high desert of the Colorado Plateau. Temperatures in the summer can reach over 100 degrees during the summer months. There is very little shade. Come prepared with water and shade for hot days. Campsites are limited to 10 people and two vehicles* Group sites are limited to 20 people and up to 5 vehicles. Individual group site capacities vary, double check your selected campsite capacities before making a reservation.* Vehicles must be parked in designated areas, parking off road is not allowed. Stays are limited to 7 days per month. No firewood gathering is allowed. No water or electricity is available. All members of the group will use the developed toilet facilities and/or a portable, leak-proof, reusable toilet system (or an EPA-approved carry-out bag system) to capture all solid human waste. All trash, including dog waste, must be packed out. Quiet hours are from 10pm to 6am - Please respect other campers. Reservations are required for all camping within the campground. Changes may be made to your reservation until 24 hours before the reserved date. A full refund, minus the $8 reservation fee, will be given if canceled 48 hours before the first reserved date. Please note, you cannot change your check-in date. If you would like to change your check-in date, you will need to cancel your entire reservation and rebook. Check out time is 12:00, noon. There are no refunds given due to weather. *Vehicle will be defined as freeway legal transportation used to access the site (i.e. car, truck or motorcycle). A truck hauling a toy-hauler trailer and UTV is one vehicle, per the purposes of the reservation.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 77 · 10 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 20 of 77 sites
- Campfires
- 19 of 20 sites
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 10 of 77 campsite records
- Stay limit
- 7 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River, Creek
- Night sky · 294th darkest of 522 in CO
- Bortle 3
83 of 148 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:33 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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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.
“A full refund, minus the $8 reservation fee, will be given if canceled 48 hours before the first reserved date.” · 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 15:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
77 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 75 mapped sites4 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 77 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 34 of the 77 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. 67 of the 77 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Fluffle | Fluffle 1 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 180 ft | 2.2 mi | 579 ft | $20 |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 10 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 94 ft | 1.0 mi | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 11 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 96 ft | 5,196 ft | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 12 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 93 ft | 5,098 ft | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 13 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 93 ft | 5,173 ft | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 14 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 96 ft | 5,269 ft | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 15 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 94 ft | 1.0 mi | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 16 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 785 ft | 4,519 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 17 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 911 ft | 3,047 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 18 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 911 ft | 2,828 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 19 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 218 ft | 2,493 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 2 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 180 ft | 2.2 mi | 691 ft | $20 |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 20 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 218 ft | 2,498 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 21 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 797 ft | 2,211 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 22 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 797 ft | 2,505 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 23 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 2607 ft | 4,027 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 24 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 36 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 82 ft | $20 |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 25 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 108 ft | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 3 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 258 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 4 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 258 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 5 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 398 ft | 1.4 mi | $20 | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 6 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 129 ft | 1.1 mi | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 7 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 1.1 mi | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 8 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 1.0 mi | Vault Toilets listed | |
| Fluffle | Fluffle 9 | group rv area nonelectric | 60 ft | 117 ft | 1.0 mi | Vault Toilets listed | |
| High North | High North 1 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 382 ft | 2.7 mi | 497 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 10 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 163 ft | 2.6 mi | 1,825 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 11 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 163 ft | 2.6 mi | 1,954 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 12 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 208 ft | 2.6 mi | 2,113 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 13 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 394 ft | 2.7 mi | 2,460 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 2 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 398 ft | 2.8 mi | 346 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 3 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 382 ft | 2.8 mi | 115 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 4 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 218 ft | 2.7 mi | 536 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 5 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 153 ft | 2.7 mi | 749 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 6 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 153 ft | 2.7 mi | 900 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 7 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 248 ft | 2.7 mi | 1,189 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 8 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 173 ft | 2.6 mi | 1,417 ft | $20 |
| High North | High North 9 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 173 ft | 2.6 mi | 1,589 ft | $20 |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 1 | standard nonelectric | 109 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 231 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 10 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 1.9 miColorado River | 270 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 11 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 1.9 miColorado River | 427 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 12 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 1.9 miColorado River | 394 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 13 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 1.9 miColorado River | 373 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 14 | standard nonelectric | 2.0 miColorado River | 91 ft | $20 | ||
| Jouflas | Jouflas 15 | standard nonelectric | $20 | ||||
| Jouflas | Jouflas 16 | standard nonelectric | $20 | ||||
| Jouflas | Jouflas 2 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 134 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 3 | standard nonelectric | 2.0 miColorado River | 108 ft | $20 | ||
| Jouflas | Jouflas 4 | standard nonelectric | 2.0 miColorado River | 91 ft | $20 | ||
| Jouflas | Jouflas 5 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 216 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 6 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 1.9 miColorado River | 169 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 7 | standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 251 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 8 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 1.9 miColorado River | 236 ft | $20 | |
| Jouflas | Jouflas 9 | standard nonelectric | 146 ft | 2.0 miColorado River | 357 ft | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 1 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 120 ft | 1,317 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 10 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 150 ft | 589 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 11 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 150 ft | 530 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 12 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 224 ft | 720 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 13 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 234 ft | 660 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 126 ft | 673 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 15 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 126 ft | 674 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 16 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 149 ft | 755 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 149 ft | 841 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 18 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 236 ft | 839 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 19 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 225 ft | 1,408 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 2 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 120 ft | 1,265 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 20 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 225 ft | 1,204 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 165 ft | 1,111 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 4 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 179 ft | 868 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 5 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 122 ft | 898 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 6 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 122 ft | 777 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 7 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 156 ft | 678 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 8 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 160 ft | 692 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Knowles | Knowles 9 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 160 ft | 761 ftColorado River | $20 | |
| Koniklos | Koniklos 1 | standard nonelectric | 175 ft | 1.7 miColorado River | 1,311 ft | $20 | |
| Koniklos | Koniklos 2 | standard nonelectric | 120 ft | 1.7 miColorado River | 1,236 ft | $20 | |
| Koniklos | Koniklos 3 | standard nonelectric | 120 ft | 1.7 miColorado River | 1,295 ft | $20 |
25 of 77 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Westwater Campground (Ranger Station)Moab Field Office · 8.1 mi
Westwater Group Site (Ranger Station)Moab Field Office · 8.2 miFrom I-70, take exit 2 and turn south until you come to the BLM kiosk. Follow the map and directions to specific campgrounds and loops.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Loma, CO
Typical weather
Typical October night 36°F, day 69°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Rabbit Valley is in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Jeff Hurd (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →