Ken's Lake Campground

Stayed two nights in late September and was pleasantly surprised by this campground. Reserved about 60 days in advance as a backup location thinking it looked pretty barren and the reservoir nearly empty, but found our spot and the others along the creek in Loop B to be quite nice. Pretty setting up against the hills with babbling creek alongside. Loop A is mostly void of vegetation and pretty exposed. I’d recommend the creek side spots on Loop B.
Camp host is in spot #48 FYI.

Also, nice short 2 mi loop hike just behind campground.

Moab was a destination that my friend who was traveling with me wanted to visit for the mountain biking. Ken's Lake was quiet at night but quite a few ATV's during the day. Easy to access Moab but for mountain bikers, you may want to camp on the north side of Moab. Lots of construction in Moab so seemed very busy in early October. Some short but enjoyable hiking trails from the campground for the dogs to get some exercise.

Moab area was very busy when we visited at the end of September. I had read reviews for Ken’s lake so it was on my radar. If you’re up for boondocking i highly recommend it. We were there with our 4 kids and 2 pups and everyone agreed it was a memorable stay.

Good space between sites and very quiet. Plenty of room for big rigs. Less traffic on the south side of town too. Clean vault toilets and trash dumps are the amenities, but the location and views are unbeatable. The lake itself was fun and my kids went swimming despite the chilly water. There’s not much shade, but there was a consistent breeze that kept us cool and temps were slightly cooler than in town or by the river. We also had no cell service at the river sites but had fine service with verizon and t mobile.

If you stay here or even if you don’t, do yourselves a favor and visit Warner Lake. It’s National forest and the aspens were brilliant and showy in their fall color. In the 4 weeks we’ve been on the road it’s the only place we visited twice. Our kids caught several rainbow trout with salmon eggs.

One last tip: we visited the Spanish Trails Arena several times to toss football and run around. They were very friendly and have a 24hour bathroom. Learned that if the rv parks are full you can stay there at the ends of their barns with electric hookups. We almost moved because we were having issues with our battery, but we stuck it out at Ken’s lake.

We originally planned to stay at a private campground, but they were all full. After checking out the reviews on Campendium, we decided to try Ken's Lake Campground. We loved it. The view is beautiful and there are some nice little trails in the area and directly to the reservoir. The gravel pads are level and there is plenty of room for even the biggest RV (our neighbor was pulling a 45' fifth wheel and it and the truck fit fine). The star gazing at night was spectacular, the fire pits and picnic tables are great and it's easy access (about 10 minutes) to downtown Moab. I'd highly recommend if you don't mind going a night without hook-ups.

Rig: 2019 Keystone Fuzion 424 (44 foot 5th wheel toy hauler)
Truck: 2016 Ford 350 Dually

We lucked out and got a pull-through spot here (and there are only a few of them) and it easily fit our 62 total feet we have of truck and 5th wheel.

Nicely laid out and simple campground with 2 main RV sections, and the “lake” (reservoir) is cool, and there’s a road going right up into the mountains for further explorations and things to do (recommend a 4 wheel drive to go up the 9% grade with no railings).

The view is incredible here. The campground was full or nearly full during our early October stay.

In October, the highs can be in the 80’s but it’s very tolerable because of the low humidity, and the nights can be cold getting down to 30’s and 40’s. The wind can also pick up at any time. Also, loads of people bring large ATV’s and motorcycles out here to ride, so they can be a little noisy and dusty.

Stay on the paths and you likely won’t walk up on a rattle snake.

We had a huge space, lots of room (like 100 feet) between us and the next campers on our side of the road, a picnic table and a fire pit. It’s also only 15 or so minutes to downtown Moab for eating, excursions and more. We went rock climbing with Moab Desert Adventure and they were excellent to work with!

We loved our stay at Ken’s Lake campground. We we stayed 2 nights in site 36 in the lower campground. The vault toilets were very clean and well stocked with toilet paper and hand sanitizer. Ken’s lake day use area is a short walk down a path and we spent a large part of the afternoon there cooling off in the lake. The sites are far apart with lots of privacy, each with a picnic table and a fire pit. Only complaints are the smell of the vault toilets carries in the wind and there is not much shade. Be warned, there are rattlesnakes that live under the small trees in the area and come out at night (not the campsites fault of course) but we had one peek in our tent.