About Salt Lake City RV Rental
Reviewed by Ben Kiser, RV rental operator and fleet consultant.
This site helps you find an RV on Outdoorsy that fits where you are actually going, which in Utah means fits through a tunnel, into a campsite and under a parking restriction. It does not rent you the RV. The host does.
Protection plans and roadside assistance above are Outdoorsy's, offered at checkout on eligible bookings and subject to its deductibles and exclusions. This site provides neither.
A finder, and nothing more than that
Salt Lake City RV Rental is a referral site. It points at listings on Outdoorsy and explains which Utah rule each listing is about to run into. Some of those links are affiliate links, so a booking made after following one earns this site a commission from the marketplace. The commission is paid by the marketplace and adds nothing to your price.
It owns no RVs. It employs no drivers. It does not deliver, stage, set up, hand over, clean or recover a vehicle. It does not insure anything and it takes no payments, so it cannot issue a refund either. It is not a dealership, and it is not affiliated with the National Park Service, the Utah Office of Tourism, the Utah Department of Transportation or the Utah State Tax Commission.
Individual hosts deliver for a fee they set themselves, and 67.9% of the listings measured on 2026-09-18 offered it. That is the host's service, arranged on the host's listing.
There is no phone number, because there is no answered line. Email reaches a person: info@saltlakecityrvrental.com.
How the pages get written
Park rules come from nps.gov, recreation.gov, udot.utah.gov and the Utah Code, not from other RV blogs. Where a rule lives only in a Superintendent's Compendium, the Compendium is what gets cited.
One paginated pull of the Outdoorsy search API within 50 miles of downtown Salt Lake City on 2026-09-18 returned all 610 listings. Every fleet figure on this site comes from that single run, so the numbers agree with each other.
Measurements decay. A number here is stamped 2026-09-18 until it is re-measured, and the script that produced it ships in the repo.
Where an official source says nothing, the page says the source is silent and names where to confirm. No plausible number is ever put in the gap.
Where two official sources disagree, both are printed and the disagreement is named. Capitol Reef publishes a 27 foot limit on one page and 23 feet on another for the same roads, and a 25 foot Class C sits in the gap.
What the Salt Lake City marketplace actually publishes
Outdoorsy publishes the dimension that stopped mattering and withholds the two that now decide your trip. Every listing gives a length. Roughly one in seven gives a height and one in eight gives a width, and width including mirrors is the clause Zion enforces. Measured 2026-09-18 within 50 miles of downtown. Re-measure before treating any of it as current.
Three things most RV advice still gets wrong
Zion no longer escorts you
Since 7 June 2026 the tunnel permit and the ranger escort are gone. An oversize vehicle is turned around at the entrance. The limits are 35 ft 9 in long, 7 ft 10 in wide, 11 ft 4 in high and 50,000 lb, and the measurement counts mirrors. Pages still quoting a $15 permit are describing a system that was abolished.
The listing gives you the wrong number
All 610 listings measured on 2026-09-18 publish a length. Only 86 publish a height and 80 a width. Height values that do appear mix decimal feet with feet and inches in the same field, so this site computes no tunnel clearance from listing data and says why.
Utah rental tax stops at day 30
Utah Code 59-12-102(135) defines a short term rental as less than 30 consecutive days, so the 2.5% state and 7% county rental taxes stop applying at 30. A gross vehicle weight rating of 14,001 lb or more exempts a motorhome at any length. The Tax Commission website still publishes the superseded 12,001 lb figure, so the statute is what gets cited here.
Ben Kiser reviews these pages
Ben Kiser, RV rental operator and fleet consultant, reviews the pages on this site. He has held ownership in rental locations across the United States, has sold locations, and consults for operators nationwide, which is the perspective he reads them from: whether the limits and the figures here hold up for somebody who actually places units against them.
What that credit is not. The Utah park limits and tax figures here are cited to nps.gov, recreation.gov, the Utah Code and the Tax Commission on the pages that use them, so you can check any of them without taking anyone’s word. A review is a read of a published page, not advice on your own claim, lease or tax position. Editorial responsibility stays with the publisher, and the legal pages carry no reviewer credit at all.
Tell us where the rig is going
Zion through the tunnel, Elephant Hill Access Road at Canyonlands, the Bryce Point Road, or a 30 day stay that crosses the tax line. The destination decides the unit, and the unit is far harder to change than the date.
Measure the mirrors before you book
Zion counts mirrors, tires and roof attachments in its 7 ft 10 in width, and the marketplace publishes a width on 80 of 610 listings. Ask the host for the mirror to mirror figure in writing before you pay.