Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
downtown, where I-15 and I-80 cross from downtown Salt Lake City
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Salt Lake City RV rentals for the Utah national parks
Rent a motorhome, a camper van or a travel trailer from an owner here in the valley. A trailer runs about $119 a night and a big Class A about $286, with most of the fleet in between. Around two thirds of owners will bring it to an address you agree with them, so you do not have to collect it.
Moab is three and a half to four hours south, which puts Arches and Canyonlands within a day of picking up the keys. Zion is a little over four. Closer to home, Little Cottonwood is twenty minutes from Sandy and the Uintas are a weekend. Staying a month or more? Utah stops charging rental tax at thirty consecutive days.
Reviewed by Ben Kiser, RV rental operator and fleet consultant.
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By class
Find the right RV for your trip
A Class C is where most first-time renters land. It drives on an ordinary licence, tows nothing, sleeps four to six, and costs around $219 a night. A travel trailer is cheaper at about $119, but you need a vehicle to pull it and that is not in the price. A camper van is the one that still fits down a forest road and into a normal parking bay.
Travel Trailer
244 listed, median $119 a night
The cheapest class here at a $119 median and the largest, 244 of the 610 listings. The tow vehicle is not in that price and not in the listing.
Fifth Wheel
12 listed, median $181 a night
The most beds and the thinnest supply: all twelve sleep six or more, at a $181 median. It hitches into the bed of a pickup you supply.
Camper Van
78 listed, median $186.50 a night
The cheapest way to drive rather than tow, at a $186.50 median. 38 of the 78 sleep two, so count the beds first.
Class C RV
151 listed, median $219 a night
The default first rental: 151 listed at a $219 median, and 119 of them sleep six or more. No special licence, and nothing to tow.
Class B RV
58 listed, median $249 a night
A toilet on most of them and a shower inside, for $62.50 a night more than a camper van. 18 of the 58 sleep two, so check the beds rather than the badge.
Class A RV
37 listed, median $286 a night
The most expensive class here at a $286 median, and the most beds per unit: 34 of the 37 sleep six or more.
Where the fleet is
Hosts across the Salt Lake valley
Owners are spread from Ogden down to Provo and out to Tooele. Most will deliver for a fee they set themselves; otherwise you collect it where it is kept. Start from the area that suits your first day.
West Valley City
Salt Lake County
west of downtown, inside the I-215 belt from downtown Salt Lake City
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Sandy
Salt Lake County
south on I-15, at the Little Cottonwood canyon mouth from downtown Salt Lake City
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Ogden
Weber County
north on I-15, where I-84 splits east from downtown Salt Lake City
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Provo
Utah County
south on I-15, between Utah Lake and the Wasatch from downtown Salt Lake City
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Park City
Summit County
east on I-80, up and over Parleys Canyon from downtown Salt Lake City
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Where people go
Popular RV destinations from Salt Lake City
The five national parks are why most people rent here, and all five are south. Closer in, Antelope Island is forty minutes from downtown and Bear Lake or Flaming Gorge make a weekend. Each page below has the drive, the campgrounds worth booking, the season, and the size of vehicle the park will actually let in.
Zion National Park
300 miles, per National Park Service
What stops a vehicle here
Since 7 June 2026 there is no tunnel permit. An RV over 35 ft 9 in long, 7 ft 10 in wide or 11 ft 4 in high is turned around at Canyon Junction, and the width measurement includes your mirrors.
4 hours 15 minutes, per the Utah Office of Tourism
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Bryce Canyon National Park
270 miles, per National Park Service
What stops a vehicle here
Bryce Point Road and Paria View Road are closed to RVs over 20 ft and to anything towing. That closure appears only in the Superintendent's Compendium, not on a single page a visitor would normally read.
4 hours, per the Utah Office of Tourism
Read the limits
Arches National Park
236 miles, per National Park Service
What stops a vehicle here
Timed entry is not required at Arches in 2026, which most RV guides still get wrong. The constraint that replaced it is physical: NPS tells oversize vehicles to leave the rig in town or in the visitor center lot, and the park has no dump station, so you empty tanks in Moab.
3.5 to 4 hours to Moab, per the Utah Office of Tourism
Read the limits
Canyonlands National Park
237 miles, per National Park Service
What stops a vehicle here
The Elephant Hill Access Road bans anything over 21 ft. It is an ordinary-looking two-wheel-drive gravel road to a major trailhead, and a 28 ft rig legal in both park campgrounds is illegal on it.
3.5 to 4 hours to Moab, per the Utah Office of Tourism
Read the limits
Capitol Reef National Park
Not stated by the National Park Service
What stops a vehicle here
Capitol Reef publishes two different RV limits for Grand Wash and Capitol Gorge, 27 ft and 23 ft, and 24 ft, the median drivable in this market, sits between them. Book under 23 ft if you want both spur roads, because the 23 ft figure is on the more recently updated page. Take anything longer and you may reach the turning and have to reverse it out.
3.5 hours, per the Utah Office of Tourism
Read the limits
Antelope Island State Park
41 miles, per Utah State Parks
What stops a vehicle here
Utah State Parks publishes no RV length limit for the causeway or for any campground here, so nothing stops a rig by size. Power and water decide instead, and both exist in one loop: Bridger Bay sites 27 to 64, three of which are cottages where RVs are not permitted. Book one of the 35 hookup sites that leaves, or cross the causeway with full tanks. There is no gas station on the island, the only other tap is the dump station in that same loop, and rideshare drivers will not come out to collect you.
Read the limitsMirror Lake Highway
Not stated as a total by the Forest Service or UDOT
What stops a vehicle here
The only limit UDOT publishes for SR-150 is 80,000 lbs, and the heaviest RV in this market is rated 51,000. No length, width or height limit exists for the road. What decides is the season: Mirror Lake Campground opens 22 June and closes 20 September, 91 days, and UDOT publishes no date for the closure at either end of it.
Read the limitsFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area
205 miles, per US Forest Service
What stops a vehicle here
No road in publishes an RV length limit and the campsites here are the longest in this data set, up to 80 ft at Mustang Ridge. What decides is water. There are no hookups anywhere in the recreation area, drinking water at most campgrounds runs only from mid to late May to mid September, and the pass you need to be here cannot be bought online.
Read the limitsBear Lake State Park
Not stated by Utah State Parks
What stops a vehicle here
Bear Lake publishes no RV length limit. It publishes pad lengths instead, 64 ft to 105 ft at Birch and 44 ft to 68 ft at Big Creek, all of them full hookup. What decides is whether you can book at all, because the park's conditions page says every Rendezvous Beach, South Eden and North Eden site is first come, first served until closing in October while its own facilities page still sends you to Reserve America.
Read the limitsMoab
No agency publishes a Salt Lake City to Moab mileage
What stops a vehicle here
Moab is where an Arches and Canyonlands trip actually sleeps, and the two nearest developed campgrounds publish electricity and no water at all. Dead Horse Point says the water table is too low for a well and trucks its water up daily. BLM's Horsethief, on the Island in the Sky approach, has neither hookups nor water. Fill the fresh tank in town before you drive up, because neither place can do it for you.
3.5 to 4 hours, per the Utah Office of Tourism
Read the limitsBonneville Salt Flats
120 miles, per Bureau of Land Management
What stops a vehicle here
You cannot camp on the salt. BLM tells spectators and participants alike to leave the flats to find accommodation each day, day use is free and needs no permit, and the surface closes seasonally whenever it is wet, on dates that are posted by sign rather than published in advance. The flats are a day trip, and the overnight is a separate problem solved on dispersed BLM ground or in Wendover.
Read the limitsJordanelle State Park
Utah State Parks publishes no mileage from Salt Lake City
What stops a vehicle here
Jordanelle is the nearest RV camping with hookups to Park City, and it is only bookable for half the year. The reservable season runs 1 May to 31 October. From 1 November to 30 April it is walk-in, which cannot be reserved online at all, and whether the power and water are still running through that walk-in season is stated on no page the park publishes.
Read the limitsWhat changed in 2026
Zion abolished its tunnel permit on 7 June 2026
There is no $15 fee now and no ranger escort. A vehicle that does not fit is turned around at Canyon Junction, and the rule applies to the whole highway through to the East Entrance rather than to the tunnel alone. Most of the first page of Google still describes the permit that was withdrawn.
That matters here because of what the marketplace publishes. All 610 listings measured give a length. 86 give a height and 80 give a width, and those last two are what Zion now measures, mirrors included. The number on the card is not the number that stops you, so ask the host for the other two in writing before you pay.
RV owners
Own an RV in Salt Lake City?
385 of the 610 listings here come from an owner with a single vehicle, and 123 are dealers. See what your class earns a night before you decide whether it is worth listing.
How it works
How it works
1
Browse & Choose
Explore Class A, Class C motorhomes, camper vans and travel trailers on the marketplace. Start from the size limit where you are going, not from the floorplan.
2
Check what fits
Every Utah park publishes a different limit and no two agree. Check your length, height and width against the parks on your route before you pay, not after.
3
Book with the host
Booking, payment and the rules are between you and the owner on Outdoorsy. Two thirds of hosts here deliver, each setting their own fee, so agree the handover address in the same conversation.
4
Collect and go
The host walks you through the rig. Roadside assistance on an eligible Outdoorsy booking comes from Outdoorsy's protection, not from the owner and not from here.
Why start here
Your Salt Lake valley RV rental source
Prices you can plan with
Rates here come off the live marketplace rather than a brochure, so you can see what a class really costs before you start filtering. A trailer week and a Class A week are not the same trip or the same bill.
The park rules, read
Zion, Bryce, Arches, Canyonlands and Capitol Reef each allow a different vehicle, and no two publish it the same way. Those rules came off the parks' own pages, so you do not book something that gets turned around at the gate.
Told when nobody knows
Where a park or an owner publishes nothing, this site says so and names who to ask, rather than filling the gap with a guess. Airport parking for an RV is the clearest example: the airport gives no figure at all.
Read by an operator
Ben Kiser has held ownership in RV rental locations across the United States and reads these pages as somebody who places units against these rules for a living.
Questions
What people ask before they book in Salt Lake City
No. Every rental is somebody else's, booked through Outdoorsy, and the owner sets the price, the delivery fee and the rules. Of the 610 listings measured within 50 miles of downtown, 385 come from an owner with a single vehicle and 123 are dealer listings. That matters when you ask for a dimension: a one-vehicle owner can usually put a tape on it that afternoon, and a dealer with a large fleet often cannot.
The median published day rate across the 610 Outdoorsy listings within 50 miles of downtown was $165, the mean $186, and the range $30 to $1,795. By class the medians were Class A $286, Class B $249, Class C $219, camper van $186.50, fifth wheel $181, toy hauler $149, travel trailer $119 and folding trailer $100. None of those figures includes tax, fees, mileage, generator hours or the delivery charge the host sets. Price the trip from the live listing on your dates, because a booking budgeted at the median lands higher at checkout.
Utah imposes 2.5% on short-term motor vehicle rentals under Utah Code 59-12-1201 and Salt Lake County adds 7%, so 9.5% sits on top of the ordinary sales and use tax, which is 8.45% in Salt Lake City. Utah Code 59-12-102 defines a short-term rental as less than 30 consecutive days, so at 30 consecutive days the 9.5 points stop applying. That is a definition, not a discount. Book 29 nights rather than 30 and you pay the full 9.5% on the whole rental.
Utah Code 59-12-1201(5) exempts a motor vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rating of 14,001 pounds or more, and the county tax carries the identical carve-out at 59-12-603. Ask the host for the GVWR on the door plate and get it in writing before you book. Note that tax.utah.gov still publishes the superseded 12,001 pound figure, and Publication 25 uses gross laden weight rather than the statute's gross vehicle weight rating, which is a different test. Quote the statute. Take the website's number instead and you can pay 9.5 points on a rental the statute exempts.
Only if it is under 35 ft 9 in long, 7 ft 10 in wide and 11 ft 4 in high, and under 50,000 lbs. Since 7 June 2026 there is no tunnel permit and no ranger escort, and the limits apply to the whole highway between Canyon Junction and the East Entrance rather than to the tunnel alone. The National Park Service states the measurement includes mirrors, tyres and attachments such as AC units, bike racks and satellite dishes. Combined vehicles also cannot exceed 26 ft hitch to rear axle or 50 ft overall. Get all four numbers from the host in writing. An oversize rig is turned around at Canyon Junction, 300 miles from where you collected the keys.
Twenty-one at the absolute minimum, and often twenty-five. Every one of the 610 listings measured states a minimum renter age: 389 require 21 and 221 require 25. There is no listing in this market that will rent to a driver under 21. If the named driver is 21 to 24, roughly a third of the market is closed to you before you filter on anything else, so check the age on the listing before you build a trip around a vehicle.
All 610 listings measured publish a security deposit. The median is $500, and the range runs $350 to $3,000. That is held against the card separately from the rental and released after the trip on the marketplace's own timetable, not the owner's. Budget the deposit as cash that is unavailable during the trip rather than as part of the price, because a $3,000 hold on a card you also meant to spend from is how a trip runs out of room.
It depends which of four tiers the owner chose, and 609 of the 610 listings publish one: flexible on 263, moderate on 180, strict on 82, and custom on 84. A custom policy cannot be read from search results at all, so on roughly one listing in seven you cannot know the cancellation terms until you open it. Read the tier before you pay a deposit, because the tier is the owner's choice and it does not change once the booking is accepted.
Usually not. Of the 610 listings measured, only 137 publish a minimum stay at all, at a median of three nights, and 473 publish none. So a two-night weekend is available across most of this market. The binding constraint on a short trip is almost never the rental, it is the campsite: Zion's South Campground and Bryce's Sunset Campground both open bookings only 14 days ahead.
Some hosts do, for a fee they set themselves. Delivery was offered on 67.9% of the 610 listings measured, priced host by host with no published rate card. Agree the fee and the exact drop address in writing before you book, and confirm the address takes the vehicle's turning circle as well as its length. A cul-de-sac that holds a 30 ft rig parked will not always let one turn, and a handover that has to move on the day costs you the first morning of the trip.
The airport says oversized vehicles must make special arrangements and pay additional fees, and it publishes no fee amount on any parking page. The garage has a clearance of 8 feet 6 inches and there is a 13 foot height restriction to drive in front of the terminal, both lower than most motorhomes. The words RV, recreational vehicle, motorhome, camper and trailer appear on none of its parking pages, so whether the economy lot will take one is not stated anywhere. Contact the Parking Division for a figure before you fly. Arrive without one and you are looking for off-airport parking in a vehicle that does not fit the garage.
Book the campsite first, because campgrounds close out before rentals do. Zion's Watchman takes reservations six months ahead and its South Campground only 14 days ahead, while Bryce's Sunset Campground is also 14 days against North Campground's six months. On the rental side, 385 of the 610 listings measured came from an owner publishing a single vehicle, which means one calendar and no substitute unit behind it. Book the rig first and you can end up holding a 28 ft motorhome for loops at Watchman that refuse anything 19 feet and over.
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