Salt Lake City
Salt Lake County
downtown, where I-15 and I-80 cross from downtown Salt Lake City
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Getting an RV delivered in Salt Lake City
Reviewed by Ben Kiser, RV rental operator and fleet consultant.
Roughly two in three owners here will bring the vehicle to an address you agree with them, so for most people the handover is a doorstep job rather than a drive across the valley. Half of them price it by the mile, at a median of $3.00, which makes the far edge of a typical range cost more than the first night.
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What the market publishes, and what it does not
- 414
- of 610 listings offer delivery
- 60 miles
- median distance they will travel, across the 414 that publish one
- $3.00 a mile
- median rate, across the 209 that publish one. The other 205 quote it on request
A 60 mile median covers the whole valley, Ogden, Provo and Park City without argument, and 85 listings publish 200 miles or more, which reaches Moab. Put the rate against that distance and the range stops looking like a free feature. 60 miles at the $3.00 median is $180. The 200 mile listings are $600 before anyone has paid for a night, which is why the host nearest your first day is usually the cheaper booking even when their day rate is higher.
Two things are still unpublished and both change the number. No listing states whether the mileage is counted one way or as a round trip, so $180 may be $360. And the 205 hosts who deliver without publishing a rate quote it only once you enter dates and an address. Ask for both in writing before you accept, because a delivery fee agreed after the booking is a fee you have no leverage on.
Where people have it dropped
There is no depot. The vehicle lives wherever its owner keeps it, so the drive it makes to reach you is the drive you are paying for. Starting from the area nearest your first day is usually cheaper than starting from the one nearest your house.
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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Questions about delivery
Usually, yes. 414 of the 610 listings measured within 50 miles of downtown offer delivery, which is 67.9 percent of the market. It is the owner's own service rather than a service of this site: they set the fee, the distance and whether they will drop at a campground or only at a street address.
414 listings publish how far they will travel, and the median is 60 miles, which covers the whole Salt Lake valley, Ogden, Provo and Park City. 85 of them publish 200 miles or more, which reaches Moab. That last group matters if you would rather start a Mighty 5 trip at the park than drive the first day, though you are paying somebody for a round trip of that distance.
About half of the hosts who deliver will tell you before you ask. 209 of the 414 publish a per-mile rate: the median is $3.00 and the range runs $0.60 to $4.00. The other 205 publish nothing and quote it once you enter dates and an address. Run the rate against the distance before you accept it. 60 miles at $3.00 is $180, which is more than the $165 median day rate, so a delivery to the edge of a host's range can cost more than the night it starts. None of the listings say whether they count the mileage one way or both, and that doubles the figure if it is both, so ask which it is and get the answer in writing.
The turn, more often than the length. A cul-de-sac that will hold a motorhome parked will not always let one turn around, and the failure happens on the morning the trip starts, with the owner already back across the valley. Walk the approach to the drop address before you accept, and say plainly if the street is narrow, has low branches or has cars parked both sides.
Ask for your own address in writing
Filter for delivery on the listing, then give the owner the actual street before you book. A quote for the valley does not cover a canyon, and a fee agreed afterwards is one you cannot negotiate.