National Park Service · AZ
Sunset View Campground
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Caution
Weather Advisory and Storm Warnings The park may have delayed openings or closures in the event of severe weather. Travel may not be recommended during these times. Please check local weather forecasts. We appreciate your understanding.
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 31 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- Sites
- 3131 of them walk-up
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
7,270 ftElevation
1.7 miWater · an unnamed river
13.5 miW of Kayenta, AZ
31Walk-up sites
24%Tree cover
Open year-roundToday
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Sunset View Campground has 31 sites and open all year round.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- Night sky · 47th darkest of 262 in AZ
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book, just show up
One of 1,623 federal campgrounds where the site still goes to whoever pulls in first. Get there before noon on a summer weekend.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceNational Park Service
The National Park Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Nothing. This campground takes no bookings, so there’s no reservation fee to pay.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
rules read Sep 7, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Coordinate36.67569, -110.54268
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near hereCanyon View Campground2.9 mi
Antelope Point RV Park53 miHalls Crossing RV & CampgroundGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 55 mi
Beehives Primitive CampgroundGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 56 mi
Stanton Creek Primitive Camping AreaGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 57 mi
Wahweap Campground & RV ParkGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 58 mi
Antelope Point RV Park53 miHalls Crossing RV & CampgroundGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 55 miBeehives Primitive CampgroundGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 56 miStanton Creek Primitive Camping AreaGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 57 miWahweap Campground & RV ParkGlen Canyon National Recreation Area · 58 miSource: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon56°Sunny
Tonight37°Clear
Saturday56°Mostly Sunny2% rain
Saturday Night43°Chance Rain Showers31% rain
NWS forecast for Shonto, AZ
Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 41°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 22°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
90°32°10°
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: BETATAKIN, AZ (USC00020750), 0.2 miles away and at about the same elevation
The land, and who answers for it
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Sunset View Campground is in Arizona’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Eli Crane (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it open right now.
Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
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: Shonto, AZ, 7.1 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.