The Riverside Ranch

What a wonderful campground! Our kids loved the rec room, we loved the grilling area and the pull through sites were spaced nicely apart! The current management (Nichol & Joel) were super nice and very helpful. About 35 minutes to Bryce and a few cute towns within 10 minutes.

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Make sure to bring groceries because there really aren't any good groceries stores
around.

Also, the phone number on the website doesn't go directly to the campground it goes to the owners mom who doesn't check her phone often. So, if you need to get a hold of the management on site email them. :)

Being not familiar with the area, I chose this park based on the reviews. They were great over the phone, especially when I asked about getting here, Google Maps said to take Hwy 14 from Hwy 15 but it looked sketchy and she told me not to take it, to take hwy 20, which was much better. The park is nice, nothing fancy, which was just fine. When we checked in Nicole was so helpful and loaded me up with all kinds of brochures and information about visiting the area, I just wished we had more time to do stay and explore. Hooks up were fine, need a water pressure regulator. Wi-Fi was decent and cell coverage (T-mobile) was fine. The park was peaceful and reminds me of an old ranch in a beautiful setting. Space was pretty level, did have to raise up one side a little. The wind can be strong here, so they warn you not to put out your awnings. Come prepared because the closest town is small and about 15 miles away. Great location, about midway between Zion and Bryce, but there is so much more to see. Bryce Canyon is about 40+ minutes away but the drive to get there is absolutely gorgeous. Hwy 12 is listed as a scenic byway and is worth the drive. During our short stay we did Red Canyons (on the way to Bryce), Bryce Canyon, Mossy Cave (nice hike), and Kodachrome State Park. We will have to come back to do more.

Large pull-thru sites, SUPER friendly staff, great game room and laundry facilities. The river is beautiful, but we chose a site with full-hookups. Great base camp for BryceCanyon and Zion parks. The best part was a large, open grass field with games and swings. It was so awesome for our kids to be able
To run around after a long ride. This was our favorite campground out of the 7 we visited on our road trip!

The campground was not very busy and on arrival I switched from a gravel spot to a river spot. It was a great spot for the dogs! The spaces between camping spots are large and big enough for all of our stuff. I loved that the park is dog friendly and in the evenings everyone is out walking the dogs and visiting. Hosts are friendly and knowledgeable about the surrounding area.

This is a great private campground in range of a number of parks and trails. The campground is divided into two main sections. The top section (where we stayed) has about two dozen big rig-friendly full hookup sites. All the sites are gravel, fairly level, and are wide: after the super narrow sites we had at our last two campgrounds, having lots of space between us and our neighbors was a relief. The top section is also home to the office, a recreation room, a bathhouse, a play area (with a swing set, basketball hoop, and horseshoe pits), and a communal grill area.

The bottom section is laid out in a semi-circle that hugs the Sevier River. The southern end of this section has water and electric hookups for RVs that back up to the river’s edge. The rest of the area is for tent camping or boondocking (some of the tent sites did have water). In the middle of the semi-circle is a wide-open field with a single teepee that visitors can camp in. While there is no fenced-in dog park, that field plus the perimeter of the campground provides a lot of space to walk your dogs.

The cell service was decent. I couldn’t get a consistent speed test reading with my Verizon Jetpack hotspot and MIMO antenna - the day we set up I saw between 10 and 50Mbps down and between 4Mbps and 12Mbps up - but I had no trouble working online and we streamed TV with rarely any stutters. Meanwhile, my AT&T cellphone was getting 26Mbps down and 3Mbps up.

Even though the campground was nearly full every night of our three week stay, it was very quiet: there’s a little road noise but it wasn’t noticeable. And with Hatch being a small town, you can see a lot of stars at night.

At the front of the short road leading into the campground is a building that houses a small convenience store that serves ice cream and a Mexican restaurant. But if you need actual groceries, you’ll have to drive 15 minutes north to Panguitch for a local grocery store, or an hour down to Cedar City for a Walmart. There is a Sinclair station in Hatch that can refill propane tanks, but when we were there the sole employee was still waiting on their certification to work the propane (as a fallback, there are places to refill propane in Panguitch).

This is a nice park in an excellent location. You care close to Red Canyon, Bryce Canyon and close enough you can drive to Zion. We were there 16 days and didn't feel like we even scratched the surface of things that could be done in the area. The lots are large and you have a nice area to walk that isn't on the highway. We would definitely go back! There is a laundry mat available and a little convenance store that sells sandwiches and ice cream at the top of the hill. You look out at the red rocks and the sunrises and moonrises are very pretty. There is some noise from the highway above but it didn't bother us.