Range RV Campground

Range RV Campground in Apple Valley, Utah, is a campground in Washington County's red rock canyon country between Zion National Park and the Grand Staircase, offering both full and partial hookup sites for RV and tent camping in the quiet high-desert valley south of Zion with the juniper and sage landscape of the Colorado Plateau and the area's extraordinary sandstone scenery surrounding the campground on all sides. Apple Valley's Washington County position on State Route 59 gives Range RV the specific geographic advantage of the Zion National Park corridor's back-road approach via the Kolob Terrace Road — the quieter western access to Zion that bypasses the Springdale entrance road's summer traffic and gives guests the Kolob Reservoir and Kolob Canyons viewshed access that the park's main corridor visitors consistently miss. The campground's valley position gives guests the rural southern Utah character that Apple Valley's small ranching community preserves. Full and partial hookup sites with tent camping areas give Range RV the accommodation flexibility to serve the full range of southern Utah visitors — from the self-contained RV traveler routing through the Zion corridor via Hurricane and the short road to Apple Valley to the tent camper seeking the designated-dark-sky-quality night sky that the Apple Valley position's distance from any significant light pollution specifically provides in one of the darkest night sky environments in the contiguous United States. Pets are welcome. Zion National Park, 15 miles northeast of Apple Valley via State Route 59 and the Kolob Terrace Road, protects the Zion Canyon's 2,000-foot Navajo Sandstone walls and the Virgin River's sculpted slot canyons in Utah's most visited national park. The Kolob Canyons section, accessible from I-15's Exit 40 north of Hurricane and 20 miles from Apple Valley, preserves the red Navajo Sandstone finger canyons of the Kolob Terrace in a less-crowded section of Zion where the Taylor Creek Middle Fork Trail through Double Arch Alcove and the Timber Creek Overlook give visitors the Zion canyon geology at a fraction of the Zion Canyon main section's summer visitor density. The Kolob Arch, accessible by the 14-mile round-trip La Verkin Creek Trail, is one of the world's largest natural arches. The Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument's western edge, accessible south of Apple Valley via the Highway 59 corridor through Hurricane, protects the Colorado Plateau's most remote and most geologically complex canyon country — a 1.9-million-acre monument established in 1996 and modified in 2017 that encompasses the Vermilion Cliffs formation, the Paria River canyon, and the Escalante River's tributary canyon network in the most extensive red rock wilderness in the American Southwest. The Paria Canyon-Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness's coyote buttes and The Wave sandstone formation, accessible by permit-only lottery north of the Arizona border, draw landscape photographers to the Washington County corridor specifically for the formation's extraordinary cross-bedded Navajo Sandstone swirl patterns. Range RV Campground serves guests year-round in Washington County's southern Utah climate, where the spring from March through May and the fall from September through November represent the most comfortable temperature windows for Zion Canyon hiking and the Grand Staircase touring that the campground's position specifically enables. The summer months bring temperatures exceeding 100 degrees on the valley floor while the Zion Canyon's Angel's Landing and Narrows remain accessible in the morning hours before the midday heat limits activity. Bryce Canyon National Park, 60 miles north via Highways 59 and 89, extends the southern Utah national park circuit from the Apple Valley base. Reserve sites ahead for the spring and fall Zion peak seasons.