Must-see hotels in Utah
Bryce Canyon National Park
This crowded campground, 3 miles north of the Bryce visitor center, has amenities, including flush toilets, showers, drinking water, a coin laundry,…
Southwestern Utah
Near Bryce’s western boundary, 3 miles west of the Hwy 12/63 junction, then 7 miles south via unpaved USFS Rd 087, this woodsy, well-maintained, first…
Bryce Canyon National Park
If everything else is booked, check out this friendly motel, 4 miles west of the Hwy 12/63 junction. Standards may be a bit dreary and outdated – and the…
Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks
If you’re simply looking for a place to pitch your tent, this isn’t a bad spot, though rates are comparatively high. Sites are more spacious here than in…
Wasatch Mountains
Accommodations here fall under seven different price categories ranging from standard chain hotel-style rooms to spacious suites featuring jetted tubs and…
Southwestern Utah
This primitive campground along the Paria River is frequently used as the endpoint of a Buckskin Gulch trip or the beginning of a Paria Canyon trip. The…
Southwestern Utah
If you can’t secure a site at the Red Canyon Campground, try this park, which also operates a small store. Options include tent sites, RV hookups and…
Wasatch Mountains
This 1927 Italian Revival–style downtown property could use a refresher course in hotel management, but you can't beat the local history connection. The…
Moab
Adjoining brick cottages offer snug rooms fitted with smart decor. You can also take advantage of the porch chairs, hammock or backyard hot tub in the Zen…
Moab
Some of the rooms here are pine-paneled and equipped with rustic wood furniture, lending a cozy feel to their otherwise utilitarian boxiness. The walls…
Southwestern Utah
The drive here, 36 miles from the visitor center, requires a high-clearance vehicle and may demand 4WD. Six first-come, first-served free campsites have…
Salt Lake City
A well-worn hostel with nice oddball staff, nondescript rooms and dorms and decent guest kitchens. Women have it best, with their own wing and TV lounge…
Utah
There are plenty of rooms here, though they are not much to look at – giant apartment-style units clustered together and motel rooms, some remodeled as …
Park City
A hundred yards from Park City Mountain lifts, with both hotel rooms and condo-style apartments with full kitchen, dining area and fireplace. Three-night…
Southwestern Utah
Particularly good for families, KOA provides lots of amenities (flush toilets, drinking water, dump station, electrical hookups, spotlessly clean…
Moab
Go for the more spacious premium rooms at this little indie motel, which sports spotless digs (some with refrigerators) and decent linens, as well as…
Southwestern Utah
On the edge of town in 14 acres of land, these cabins are standard and a little cramped. There’s also an on-site restaurant and RV campground featuring…
Salt Lake City
Catering to international travelers, this Brazilian/American–run log B&B has comfortable rooms, a huge patio garden and a family living room built around…
Southwestern Utah
Pine Valley Recreation Complex, an hour north of St George, has six pine-shaded campgrounds at 6800ft. In total there are 65 sites. They all have water…
Southwestern Utah
Rooms in the dollhouse-like motel with the large, shaded swing deck are standard. But the newest additions – deluxe log-style rooms – are worth splurging…
Southwestern Utah
Paria Outpost & Outfitters has a spartan B&B room at its kicked-back lodge and campground. Sign up for a half-day 4WD tour to area slot canyons or set up…
Rainbow Country Bed & Breakfast
Southwestern Utah
Good trail advice and big home-cooked breakfasts. This split-level house on the edge of town is not flashy, just comfortably rustic – with a spacious TV …
Southwestern Utah
These five first-come, first-served free sites lack water, but have pit toilets, fire grates and picnic tables, as well as great views east along the fold…
Southwestern Utah
Run by a fourth-generation local, this nicely kept motel has quiet, decent rooms without wi-fi. There are local menus and historical news clippings to…
Southwestern Utah
Pitch a tent or rent a rustic, but heated, teeny-tiny log cabin (linens included, shared bathroom, no air-conditioning) in a shady yard. Picnic tables and…
Moab
At the Slickrock bike trailhead, this mountain-biker special has 120 nonreservable sites and two reservable ones. Fire rings and pit toilets, but no water…
Wasatch Mountains
A big ol' white barn has been turned into a simple, seven-room B&B. Breakfast is included and the family runs a restaurant next door serving comfort food.
Zion & Bryce Canyon National Parks
The eco-minded can try Bunk House at Zion, a scruffy but thoroughly green two-bedroom B&B serving organic breakfasts and using 100% renewable energy.
Moab
Kids will love the swimming pool, half-shaded by awnings. Rooms are nondescript but comfy enough and sure to please if you like business hotel stylings.
Moab
Near the junction with Hwy 313, Archview includes a pool, gas station and grocery store. Be forewarned: it’s completely exposed and bakes in summer.
Moab
North of town. Some tent sites have canopies; RV sites have 30-amp or 50-amp hookups. Nonguest showers cost $3; it also has a heated pool and a store.
Southwestern Utah
Friendly little campground with 15 pull-through spaces with full hookups, a horseshoe pit, picnic tables and laundry. Nonguest showers are $7.
Moab
Basic motel steps from shops and restaurants with stark but perfectly clean rooms. There's a BBQ area, bike-washing station and updated rooms.
Southwestern Utah
Small lawns and trees divide RV spaces; tent sites are in a grassy field, but still have barbecue grills. Laundromat and camp store on-site.
Moab
This small mom-and-pop motel has mostly remodeled rooms with comfortable beds that are plenty clean. There's a teeny-tiny pool out front.
Zion National Park
Six first-come, first-served park sites 35 miles up Kolob Terrace Rd at 7900ft (1¼ hours from the main entrance). Pit toilets, no water.
Southwestern Utah
Bare-bones cabins (bedding included) for two with TVs, choice of shared or private bathrooms, picnic tables and firepits.
Utah
The 26-site Bridger Bay Campground has shelters for shade, but water and pit toilets are 1 mile away. No hookups.
Southwestern Utah
These comfortable rooms in a clean setting are competitively priced in low season. Look online for discounts.
