Camping near Escalante, Utah

Camping near Escalante at a glance

Public campgrounds

5 (3 National Forest, 1 BLM, 1 State Park)

Getting a site

3 reservable and 2 first-come

Cost

Lowest posted fee at Blue Spruce Campground: "$10/night site; $5 extra vehicle"

Distance from Escalante

2.5 miles (Wide Hollow Campground) to 16 miles (Barker Reservoir Recreation Complex) in a straight line; 4 within 15 miles

Elevation

5,333 ft (Calf Creek Campground) to 9,300 ft (Barker Reservoir Recreation Complex), 4 of 5 on record

Season

2 open all year, 1 seasonal with posted dates

Campsites

108 across the 5 campgrounds that state a count

RVs

3 take RVs; hookups at Wide Hollow Campground; longest stated RV length 35 ft (Posey Lake Campground)

Drinking water

4 of 5

Distances are straight-line miles from Escalante's point in the US Census Bureau Gazetteer (2025), not driving distances. Every other fact comes from each campground's own sourced record, linked from its page.

More campgrounds within 30 miles of Escalante

• Deer Creek Campground, 15 miles from Escalante in a straight line , BLM ($10/night per individual site); listed under camping near Boulder.
• Pine Lake Campground, 19 miles from Escalante in a straight line , National Forest , reservable (Single Site: $26 per night); listed under camping near Tropic.
• Oak Creek Campground, 26 miles from Escalante in a straight line , National Forest , reservable ; listed under camping near Torrey.
• Kodachrome Basin State Park Basin Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , State Park , reservable (Standard site (no hookups) $35/night, full hookup $45 (13 sites); $16 per extra vehicle); listed under camping near Cannonville.
• Bryce View Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , State Park , reservable ($35/night (no hookups, up to 4 people); $16 per extra vehicle); listed under camping near Cannonville.
• Kodachrome Basin Arch Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , State Park , reservable ($45/night (power and water hookups); $16 per extra vehicle); listed under camping near Cannonville.
• Kodachrome Basin Oasis Group Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , State Park , reservable ($95/night (up to 35 people and 5 vehicles; vehicles 6-10 $16 each); tent only); listed under camping near Cannonville.
• Rosebud Atv Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , National Forest , reservable (Single Site: $14 per night); listed under camping near Torrey.
• Upper Pleasant Creek Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , National Forest , first-come ($12/night single site; $6/night additional vehicle); listed under camping near Teasdale.
• Lower Pleasant Creek Campground, 27 miles from Escalante in a straight line , National Forest , first-come ; listed under camping near Torrey.
• Lower Bowns Campground, 29 miles from Escalante in a straight line , National Forest , reservable (Single Site: $16 per night); listed under camping near Torrey.

Things to do near Escalante

Public land and water within 30 miles of Escalante, the public land its campgrounds sit in, and landmarks at those campgrounds, nearest first.

• Escalante Petrified Forest State Park, Wide Hollow Campground (2.5 miles from Escalante) sits inside this state park; publiclandsdb.com has its hours, entrance fee, and boundary.
• Petrified forest trails, at Wide Hollow Campground (2.5 miles from Escalante): The campground sits on the shore of Wide Hollow Reservoir, below park trails through deposits of colorful petrified wood (removing any is illegal).
• Box-Death Hollow Wilderness, a wilderness area whose mapped point is 9 miles from Escalante; its permit and camping rules and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Upper Calf Creek Falls, a waterfall whose mapped point is 10 miles from Escalante; details on the falls on swimholesmap.com.
• Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument - Escalante Canyons Unit, Calf Creek Campground (10 miles from Escalante) sits inside this BLM unit; publiclandsdb.com has its camping rule, field office, and boundary.
• Lower Calf Creek Falls, a waterfall whose mapped point is 11 miles from Escalante; details on the falls on swimholesmap.com.
• Dixie National Forest, 3 of the 5 campgrounds here sit inside this national forest, the nearest Posey Lake Campground at 13 miles from Escalante; publiclandsdb.com has its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary.
• Anasazi State Park Museum, a state park whose mapped point is 14 miles from Escalante; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Fishlake National Forest, a national forest whose mapped point is 23 miles from Escalante; its dispersed-camping rule, ranger offices, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.
• Kodachrome Basin State Park, a state park whose mapped point is 28 miles from Escalante; its hours, entrance fee, and boundary on publiclandsdb.com.

Supplies and emergencies near Escalante

Nearest emergency room: Intermountain Health Garfield Memorial Hospital, 200 N 400 East St, Panguitch, UT, 46 miles from Escalante , (435) 676-1262. Next nearest: Beaver Valley Hospital, 1109 N 100 West St, Beaver, UT, 67 miles, (435) 438-7100. Both report emergency services in the CMS Hospital General Information dataset (accessed 2026-09-26) . In an emergency, call 911.

Groceries

• Family Dollar supermarket · 0.4 miles
• Griffin's Grocery & General Merchandise supermarket · 0.4 miles · (435) 826-4226 · Hours Mo-Sa 08:00-19:00
• Escalante Mercantile & Natural Grocery convenience store · 0.5 miles

Fuel

• Phillips 66 fuel station · 0.4 miles
• High Adventure fuel station · 0.4 miles
• Sinclair fuel station · 0.6 miles · (435) 826-4259

Not mapped in OpenStreetMap within 25 miles of Escalante: propane, RV dump station, potable water fill, pharmacy, laundromat, and ice. Stores, fuel, propane, dump stations, water fill, laundromats, and pharmacies are the nearest few mapped within 25 miles, straight-line, © OpenStreetMap contributors (data as of 2026-09-29; this extract under the ODbL). Hours are as mapped; call ahead.

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