Leeds Canyon Designated Dispersed Camping

Came in on a Wednesday night thinking the area would be mainly open, however only one spot was open (spot #3 right by a trailhead.) Fairly busy by the trailhead, but it was fine with us as we were doing activities during the day so the noise didn’t bother us.

We have a 20ft trailer and it is a little tight in some areas. We ended up going all the way to the dead end road to turn around to get back to site #3

We were out exploring the area and found site 5 open. And site 6 that is all the further went. After 6 the road gets narrow for awhile, but then widespread out somewhat.
After setting up we went just behind the bushes and easily picked up enough trash to full fill 2 plus 55 gallon trash cans. Saturday the Forest Ranger stopped by. He said, unfortunately that is more the norm for this site. And loves it when people that appreciate the beauty
stay here. Because of all the garbage that was in this spot, the field mice were out at night looking for food.
You drive through a neighborhood to get there. Then once in the park the road turns to gravel and is doable for big rigs up to site 6, however, if site 6 is occoupied the is no place to turn around. Site 5 has a nice turn around.

This site deserves all the respect for the views. Leave it better than you find it. Mother Nature is not our maid!

The road in isn’t bad at all compared to other forest roads. They even have some pull through spots, like ours. Gorgeous views and very spaced apart sites. There was some tp and human waste in the back rocks which was a bummer to discover, wish people would properly take care of their business. Overall great spot tho and would def stay again.

We researched this place pretty well before we came and we still took our tow car off to check it out before driving our 32' Sunseeker RV up the road. Check out their video (and ours) to get a good overview of what the roads look like. Pretty well maintained when we were there.

Anyways, we found site #5 to be available, so we went back quickly and drove our RV up the short hill. Since we had the tow dolly still attached, we opted for the pull-through, however, the site actually has a nice back in area that gets you even further away from the road and closer to the beautiful canyon.

If you go further up the road, there are many other sites and some others were incredible. Also, up the road is the Children's forest in the Kiln which is worth checking out.

Caution: When driving through the small residential area, go slow, they have a couple of big speed bumps and if you're not paying attention, it could cause havoc on your rig.

Nice stop en route from a trip throughout southern utah. It's very close to town, so when we arrived it was a well worn with trash (we picked it up and packed it out) so just be ready to clean up a bit. It was a decent size for tents and maybe vans, no rvs were seen but maybe a small trailer could make it to our site. There were rvs on the turn outs along the road but I can't imagine that's comfortable with vehicles driving by.

I got designated dispersed site 3. That us also next to a parking area for a trailhead. There is red rock wall behind sites 2 and 3 that university uses to teach repelling (on a Friday and Saturday morning). Interesting to watch. The sites are adjacent to the road, so expect dust in a area that only sees up to 2” rain per year. Note that even thought there are supposedly 13 dispersed sites only 9 are accessible because the forest service has road closed after site 9. The road leads up to the Oak Grove Campground (not suitable for trailers) which is deserted. From the road block location to the campground is 4.5 miles, up grade. I walked it which was pleasant because no traffic. Tiring, yes. But the view back into the mesa of the valley outstanding. And the 4.5 miles walk back down hill was not bad. Also, if you come back out and go through Leeds toward south you can turn into the Red Cliffs (BLM) Recreation Area. I did a number of miles hiking there which was very nice (for me as geoscientist). There is campground there which is nice for ery small trailers/RV and tents. BTW, I would normally only have stayed 2-3 nights in Leeds Canyon, but I had 10k service due on my Toyota truck and dealer is in St. George. Timing was such that it worked out better to stay 5 nights and drive 20 miles into St. George for service.