National Park Service · Glen Canyon National Recreation Area · UT

Stanton Creek Primitive Camping Area

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Lees Ferry Campground Partial Closure The upper loop of the Lees Ferry Campground is closed for renovations. Large equipment will be paving at the Lees Ferry campground. Do not enter construction area.
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$12From, per site
3,710 ftElevation
754 ftWater · Lake Powell
54.5 miNE of LeChee, AZ
0%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 34th darkest of 458 in UT

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there

In the agency’s own words

Designated primitive camping areas that are accessible by vehicle and sometimes by vessel as well. First-come first served, no reservations. No designated sites. No potable water. When pit toilets are unavailable, campers must bring portable toilets for use and proper disposal into the sewer system. Quiet hours 10pm-6am. $12 per night.

Source: National Park Service API · Aug 24, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
None. Pack out what you bring in
Drinking water
Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records

Phone before you drive

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
A night$12Per site, fromthe agency’s fee record
A weekend$24DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
Runs itNational Park Servicethe agency’s record
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 5

What you actually pay

The sign priceNational Park Service
A night, from$12
Lake Powell Primitive Camping Areas Fees$12
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
One night, fromDerived$12
A weekend, Friday and Saturday, fromDerived$24

Derived by CAMPANAC: the lowest per-night amount the agency’s fee record states ($12), 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 weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today68°Sunny
Tonight46°Mostly Clear
Saturday66°Sunny
Saturday Night52°Mostly Cloudy4% rain

NWS forecast for Halls Crossing, UT

Typical weather

Typical October night 46°F, day 74°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical December night 26°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

110°32°20°

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: BULLFROG BASIN, UT (USC00421020), 2 miles away and 112 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Celeste Maloy, official portrait

Stanton Creek Primitive Camping Area 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: National Park Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Cell signal: the Park Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Halls Crossing, UT, 1.2 mi NW (a census designated place). Straight line.