Wahweap Campground & RV Park

This campground is a beautiful place but $88 per night is overpriced.

Pros:

-Beautiful place with many sites having a view of Lake Powell
- Boat and Beach access
- Nice sites with asphalt parking area, picnic table and fire ring. Spacious
- Laundry and bathrooms (you do have to pay for showers which seems ridiculous with the price)
- Our site was FHU
- Quite
- Safe
-Close to area attractions like Horseshoe Bend and Antelope Canyon
- Close to fuel and groceries
- walking trails

Cons:

- the price
- there is a National Park entrance fee as well. (No big deal for us as we have a pass)
- no playground
- pay for showers

Stayed in mid-Feb Feb 2023
Site type: Pull through FHU 50 AMP

THE GOOD
Site: Paved site with tons of space. Maybe the most we have had because our living space extended to another loop's road.
Grounds: Clean and quiet. Well-maintained. Really quiet and peaceful.
Cell: AT&T worked best. Verizon worked a little bit but AT&T was stronger.
Power: Had a large 24-hour cold/wind storm (winds sustained btw 15-30 mph and gusts up to 50 mph, with freezing rain and light snow creating ice on power pedestal. The power only went out a couple of very brief times. Need to give credit to the infrastructure there. We felt very comfortable knowing

WORTH NOTING (not good or bad):
Site: Not terrible but worth noting that the site was a bit unlevel.
Facilities: Bathrooms and showers were token operated. Also, not great but decent enough to use.

Arrival - Super easy with online booking. The registration area is super big for the big rigs.

Tips - None really. We had a back-in very close to the bathroom and trash collection so, other than that, every site looked like a good one.

Favorites - Great view of what's left of Lake Powell. Not a dark sky area per se but the stars were great. Close to Page, AZ, Glen Canyon Dam, and Horseshoe Bend.

Negatives - Other than the price, nothing.

Nice level concrete sites with a picnic table and charcoal grill on a red dirt area. Registration was smooth and the small store is nice. The lake is so low the walk to the beach, that I planned, was cancelled. Instead we drove to the marina and got great views. My only complaint is that it's pricey, and don't get gas around here, overinflated!

As several have noted this is very expensive for a remote national park campground.

The sites are huge flat concrete slabs and many with full hook ups.

The views of lake Powell are very nice. There are lots of space for walking.

The camp store is well stocked (with a good selection of ice cream.

Full hook up site was $81. Primitive was $31

Easy check-in at the Visitor's Center. Way too expensive for what you get and then you have to pay for showers. Fairly close to Page, AZ and stores, etc.

Campground was OK, not better than any state park we have been too. Contractor run federal campgrounds are the worst.

AT&T cell service was great, -102 RSPR un-boosted, -85 boosted, no problem streaming.

This campground is inside Lake Powell National Recreation Area, so there is a fee to get in. It was either $20 or $30 per vehicle for up to one week, but we have a pass, so I didn't really pay attention. As far as I can tell, this was not included in the campground rate, but I'm not sure, I forgot to ask. We were placed in the C loop and told them we have a 45' toy hauler. I didn't check out the other loops, so I can't speak for them. In the C loop, there are "pull-thru" sites along the outer perimeter and back-ins on the interior of the loop. The "pull-thrus" are the U shaped lay-bys, not straight-through pull-thrus. I say this because this can create obstacles for larger rigs like ours. For example, site C18 would NOT have been accessible for us because there is a very tall pole on the right side of the entrance and the site sign on the left side of the entrance, and there's no way we could've maneuvered our big-ass setup through those two obstacles without causing damage. Also, had there been anyone in C18 when we got there, we would've had issues, because due to trees, we had to drive across part of site C18 to enter C20 as straight as possible to avoid hitting trees. The other pull-thrus didn't have trees like C20 did and there was a moment when we thought we may have to request another site, but we managed to place the RV just perfectly where our slide didn't hit the tree on the side, but we had to trim a few branches on the tree in front in order to unhitch without scratching up the roof of our truck. When we left, we had to back up a bit to be able to clear the trees and make the curve necessary to get out, and we ended up hitting the tree in the back. So, yes, a big rig will fit, but it can be very stressful. Our hotspots worked well. The view of the lake was beautiful. Close to Page. We rented a pontoon boat at the marina (Stateline does rentals, not Wahweap), and the time zone is Arizona. The phones kept bouncing between Arizona and Utah, but the marina is on Arizona time even though it's technically in Utah. We would recommend hiring a boat tour instead of renting a boat because it took an hour to do all the paperwork/inspections, then with all the no-wake-zones, we were only able to explore Navajo Canyon before returning after 4 hours on the water, you have to fuel up the boat and half a tank cost us $117 (and the guy at the fuel station said prices were going up), we were clock-watching the entire time because the marina closes at 4pm sharp and if you're one minute late, they'll charge you for an additional day (another $500 or so plus a $50 fee). We got back early and our rental ended up costing around $800 after rental fee, taxes, $50 insurance, and $117 gas. Pretty sure a stress-free boat tour for all 5 of us would've been less than that.