Rocky Peak Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:43 UTC
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 12All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Rocky Peak Campground is located within Three Peaks Recreation Area, which is one of the largest designated recreation areas in Cedar City, UT. In 2006, Three Peaks was designated as a Special Recreation Management Area. What previously existed as a local open space playground has since been developed into a recreation area to meet the needs of almost any outdoor enthusiast. The site is located 10 miles outside of town at 5,938 feet elevation and sees weather similar to that in Cedar City. Visitors can expect cool temperatures in Spring and Fall with low's during these times approaching or below freezing. Keep reading
Summer temperatures can often bring the high's into the range of 90-95 degrees Fahrenheit. Rocky Peak Campground and Three Peaks Recreation Area provides opportunities for hikers, bikers, equestrian, Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) users, Remote Control (RC) car drivers, and many more. The campground is located within a small Pinyon -Juniper forest, and many of the campsites will provide shade.
Recreation
Mountain bike and hiking trails can be accessed from the campground. Three Peaks Recreation Area contains a hiking and mountain biking trailhead, an equestrian trailhead, Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) trailhead, a paintball complex, shooting range, a remote controlled (RC) car track, two disc golf courses, and a model airplane runway.
Facilities
Each campsite has a picnic table, fire ring with grill grate, and is in close proximity to a vault toilet. There is no drinking water or electricity hookups in the campground, but drinking water can be found at the nearby trailheads. Group campsites have three picnic tables, an oversized fire ring, charcoal grills, and a pavilion.
Natural Features
Ancient volcanic activity has shaped the surrounding area's rocky terrain into what it is today. Granite boulders are mixed into the patches of Pinyon and Juniper all throughout the campground. Many sites throughout the campground offer views of the Hurricane Cliffs range that rise above Cedar City.
Nearby Attractions
Well known as "Festival Town USA," Cedar City, UT almost always has something happening. Visitors that are looking to stay close to camp can check out attractions like the Southern Utah Museum of Art, Frontier Homestead State Park, or certain times of year even enjoy a day at the world famous Shakespeare Festival. Rocky Peak Campground is just over one hour from Zion National Park and just over a 1.5 hour drive to Bryce Canyon National Park.
What the agency tells you
- Drinking water is not available at the campground - Gathering firewood is prohibited. Please purchase local firewood and do not transport it to another location
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 12 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 10 of 12 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets · Pit Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 11 of 12 campsite records / PIT TOILETS on 1 of 12 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…is in close proximity to a vault toilet. There is no drinking water or electricity hookups in the campground, but…”
- Playground
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 13 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- Biking
- Disc Golf
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Picnicking
- Climbing
- Stargazing
- Night sky · 392nd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 4
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 35 km away
- Peak color
5 of 24 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 16:43 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, $12 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:43 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 sites
All 12 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 12 of the 12 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Group Site Loop | Group Site 1 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | $40 |
| Group Site Loop | Group Site 2 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | $40 |
| Individual Site Loop | 10 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 11 | standard nonelectric | 70 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 12 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 3 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 4 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 5 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 6 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 7 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 8 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | $12 |
| Individual Site Loop | 9 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | $12 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Pyramid Ridge CampgroundCedar City Field Office · 11 mi
Cedar CanyonDixie National Forest · 19 mi
Deer HavenDixie National Forest · 20 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 22 miYankee Meadow CampgroundDixie National Forest · 23 mi
TE-AHDixie National Forest · 26 miFrom Cedar City, take Main Street (UT-130) north and take the third exit in the roundabout onto Midvalley Road. After 6 miles on Midvalley Road, continue straight and follow the road through Three Peaks Recreation Area. The campground is on the left shortly after the road transitions from pavement to dirt.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cedar City, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 67°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 16°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Rocky Peak 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 →