Old Highway 89 Dispersed Camping

If you turn right at the initial Y, you’ll come to another Y. If you turn right at that Y it quickly come to a gate where you can no longer drive with little room to turn around. Vans maybe. Big rigs no. There was one small spot on the left here in between the roads. Next: So if you were to take the left at that same Y (second Y from the right of the initial one), you will start going up an extremely steep, severely washed out, gravel road with very deep ruts. Again vans could maybe do this, definitely no RVs. By the time we realized, we weren’t going any farther, we were stuck with no where to turn around. Not fun. After an hour of arguing and 2 inch Jack knifed k turns, we walked around to scout more spots on the other side.
SO if you were to have stayed straight on the first Y when you pull in, that’s the only place for anyone not in a compact van. There’s only room for maybe 4-5 big rigs up there and of course they were all taken. Basically a huge open lot, good views but full. It was sun down on a Saturday. There was a fancy $500k class A back there. Like dude, go to an RV park, you clearly can afford it.
So now for the “left” at the first Y. Also a bust. It drives you back to a place where used to be a great spot but has now turned into a construction zone. There were many giant piles of lose rocks, machinery, porta potties, unstable gravel, and giant random pit quarries dug all over the place. With potential rain we weren’t feeling like risking being in a mudslide so we finally gave up and left and paid for a great spot in town. Well worth the $53 but I’ll never get all that wasted time back.
I found all these other reviews confusing and conflicting so I hope this helps you plan around the current conditions at this place.

Dispersed camping area right off 89 north of Kanab. No facilities, no water, no dump station.
Right off the highway but no noise that I could detect.
Fairly clean sites (although someone neglected “leave no trace” protocols and left a little gift that my dogs almost got into). I saw no trash and many many great, fairly level options.
It was between this area and Twin Hollows dispersed camping to the south but I would totally stay here in the future.
* I am guessing maybe it was the heat, but I was surprised that I didn’t see anyone out there. Such a beautiful spot… 🤔⛺️🏜

Easy to find, right off the highway. Pin is accurate. Truck noise can be loud since they are going up and down in elevation right there. Went to the right, then left fork up a rutted hill. Found a site on the right

We arrived in the dark, this place was incredible to wake up to. After taking in some of the views from my tent, I got up and walked around the camp. That’s when I noticed some tp. And some more tp, with a side of poo. On the other side of camp more poo. Basically in camp behind a bush, one not far from my tent set up. not even an attempt to bury. Really disappointing and disgusting. Everyone’s gotta poo but be respectful to the land and other who want to enjoy it.

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We got an amazing spot off of old Hwy 89. There were multiple spots available and we chose one that was right next to a cliff with beautiful views of mountains. We could see a couple of other RVs from our spot but tthe sites were fairly dispersed that we didn't hear any noise.
It was extremely windy the day we camped. Hence, we couldnt really make use of the outdoors (the wind was blowing a lot of sand). However, we loved it!

The gps coordinates of our site were: 37.207191, -112.675438

We can hear big trucks using Jake brakes but it's hardly noticeable at night. By 10 pm there was not any hiway noise. Our spot for our 21 ft camper and Nissan Armada was to the right in a dip protected by cedars from wind and gave us lots of privacy. We had to back in to avoid turning into branches. 25 minutes to Springdale. There were others within sight and some close. There were large mhomes, car campers, and van campers. The whole area was clean. There was one large 4 wheeler that came by slowly checking the view, but no other traffic moving about on the dirt. If dry, any 2wd can make it.

We weren't able to stay in the area at the top of the hill. However we went to the left at the Y and found a spot in the open area where there was some heavy equipment and large dirt piles. While we were exposed to the wind, and there was plenty of that, it was a nice spot. We were alone most of the time and the trucks, not many, and heavy equipment operators left us alone. These were state vehicles so not private land. We had 5G full bars on T-Mobile.

Campendium: It's long overdue to update the selections for phone coverage quality.

The one issue we had was one day a family came in with there large Class A and a huge trailer, 3 children and they went UTV riding for the day. When they got back they gathered some wood and started a nice fire with a lot of hot coals in the middle of the large dirt area. My issue was when they decided to drive off leaving the fire , basically, roaring and in fairly strong winds. Easily an ember could have been lifted and sent into the brush area. So I took our water jug over, spread out the wood and extinguished the fire. Just wondering what the lesson was for those kids about responsible fire care and safety.

Too many appliances laying around in the area though.

Have a 20ft trailer and all areas here are very spacious with fire pits. We both had cell service (ATT & Verizon). There we a handful of other bigger trailers and a few vans too. Just far enough off the highway that it was secluded and quiet.

There were some large construction equipment that seemed to be working mid morning time frame. Not sure if this is an active gravel pit or what they are planning on building here