National Park Service · Grand Canyon National Park · AZ
Trailer Village RV Park - South Rim
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Caution
Critical Backcountry Updates/Closures Visit this link for the inner canyon weather forecast, current trail closures, today's heat risk, and drinking water availability.
Caution
Overnight Lodging Suspended and Parkwide Stage 4 Water Restrictions Grand Canyon National Park has implemented Stage 4 water restrictions on the South Rim due to extensive flash flood damage to the Transcanyon Waterline. Overnight accommodations are suspended, and only dry camping is allowed. The park…
Danger
INNER CANYON WATER SHUTOFFS Beginning Sep. 6, no potable water will be available in the inner canyon, including along the Bright Angel Trail (1.5 Mile Resthouse, 3-Mile Resthouse, Havasupai Gardens day use and campground). All backpackers and hikers should carry…
Park Closure
North Rim Scenic Road Closure: Cape Royal and Point Imperial The Point Imperial Road (from the Cape Royal Road to Point Imperial) will be closed from Oct. 15 through Nov. 3, 2026. No services, fuel, and no water are available on the North Rim as of Oct. 15, 2026.
Danger
INNER CANYON TRAIL CLOSURES Current trail closures: Bright Angel Trail from One-and-a-Half Mile Resthouse to Havasupai Gardens, the entire North Kaibab Trail (including Cottonwood Campground), Phantom Ranch, Bright Angel Campground, Silver Bridge, the South Kaibab…
Alerts: National Park Service alerts API · Oct 16, 2026
First come, first servedNo reservation, and none to be had: all 123 sites go to whoever pulls in first.
This is how it should work.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 123All of them walk-up
Photos · Courtesy Delaware North
7,020 ftElevation
1.5 miWater · Pipe Creek
In townGrand Canyon Village, AZ
18%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 39th darkest of 262 in AZ
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
CLOSED as of August 31, 2026 due to Stage 4 water restrictions.
Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - year round
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
Source: National Park Service and agency records
Around the campground
- Fall color · reported 4 days ago, 0.7 km away
- No change
Source: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (0.7 km) · Oct 12, 2026
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.
Runs itDelaware North Parks & ResortsA private concessionaire under permit from National Park Service (parent: Delaware North Companies)the operator link
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 · the phone number
Coordinate36.05281, -112.11500
The mapSee it on the map
The driveDirections ↗
The phone(928) 638-1006
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗
Where it is
Also near here
Mather CampgroundGrand Canyon National Park · 0.4 mi
Tusayan - MontaneKaibab National Forest · 8.0 mi
Hull CabinGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 11 mi
North Rim Campground (AZ)Grand Canyon National Park · 11 mi
Desert View CampgroundGrand Canyon National Park · 16 mi
DemotteGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 25 mi
Mather CampgroundGrand Canyon National Park · 0.4 miTusayan - MontaneKaibab National Forest · 8.0 miHull CabinGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 11 miNorth Rim Campground (AZ)Grand Canyon National Park · 11 miDesert View CampgroundGrand Canyon National Park · 16 miDemotteGrand Canyon Preserve National Game Refuge · 25 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 Afternoon58°Sunny
Tonight41°Mostly Clear
Saturday54°Mostly Sunny3% rain
Saturday Night43°Chance Rain Showers32% rain
NWS forecast for Grand Canyon Village, AZ
Source: National Weather Service, FGZ forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 18°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: GRAND CANYON NP 2, AZ (USC00023596), 2 miles away and 235 ft lower
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.
Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Oct 3, 2026
Who answers for this land
Trailer Village RV Park - South Rim 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: 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: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (0.7 km) · Oct 12, 2026
Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported no change · Oct 12, 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.