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Salt Lake County, UTdowntown, where I-15 and I-80 cross
RV Rental in Salt Lake City, Utah
Reviewed by Ben Kiser, RV rental operator and fleet consultant.
People rent an RV in Salt Lake City in order to drive somewhere else. Arches, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Bryce Canyon and Zion are each a southbound day from the valley floor, and this is the one address on the Wasatch Front where I-15 and I-80 cross, which is why the listings sit here rather than nearer the parks. Arrange the handover away from the airport before you book the flight: the garage clears 8 ft 6 in and the terminal drive 13 ft.
Most rentals near Salt Lake City run $119 to $286 a night depending on the class, before tax, cleaning, mileage and any delivery fee the owner sets. There is no depot here: you collect from the owner, or agree an address and they bring it.
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What is available near Salt Lake City
These come straight from the marketplace, so the set changes through the day as hosts list and take bookings. Every card carries the published length, which is the one dimension all 610 listings give you. Height and width are on 86 and 80 of them respectively, so those you ask the host for in writing.
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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.
Why people rent an RV in Salt Lake City
Most people renting here have just landed, and the airport garage stops at 8 ft 6 in.
The trip that fills these calendars is the park loop, and it is longer than a map suggests. The National Park Service puts Arches 236 miles southeast of Salt Lake City and Zion 300 miles away. The Utah Office of Tourism gives 229 and 309 for the same two parks, so the two official figures disagree in both directions and neither is averaged here. Capitol Reef publishes nothing: Salt Lake City does not appear on its directions page at all, and the 235 miles quoted elsewhere is the Office of Tourism's number rather than the park's. The Office of Tourism's own drive times, prefaced as typical averages barring inclement weather or other traffic events, are 3.5 to 4 hours to Moab, 3.5 hours to Capitol Reef, 4 hours to Bryce Canyon and 4 hours 15 minutes to Zion. Choose the vehicle on how it drives for four hours of interstate, because that is most of what you have actually booked. See what fits each park.
The second reason this city holds the listings is that it is a junction rather than a destination. I-15 runs north and south, I-80 runs east and west, and a Wyoming run, a Nevada run and a southern Utah run all leave the same driveway on different roads. Settle which one you want before the keys change hands. The first mile in an unfamiliar vehicle is a poor place to reconsider, and the median published length in this market is 24 ft.
The third is the long stay, and it is the smallest slice of this market: 4.6% of the 610 listings measured allowed a long-term booking at all. Utah stops charging rental tax at 30 consecutive days because that is where its definition of a short-term rental ends, so the gap between a 29 night trip and a 30 night one is the whole Salt Lake County charge on the whole bill. Work out where your dates fall before you shorten a trip to save a night's rate.
Five parks, every one of them south
Arches 236 miles per the National Park Service and 229 per the Utah Office of Tourism, Zion 300 against 309. Build the drive into day one rather than the first campsite.
The airport cannot take the vehicle
Salt Lake City International publishes an 8 ft 6 in garage clearance and a 13 ft limit to drive in front of the terminal. Arrange the handover somewhere else before you fly.
Two interstates leave from one driveway
I-15 north and south, I-80 east and west. The rig that suits four hours of I-70 is not the one that suits a canyon weekend, so pick the road first.
4.6% allow a long stay
Measured. If the trip runs past a month, filter for it before you fall in love with a listing that will not take the dates.
Where you collect it in Salt Lake City
There is no depot here and no rental counter. Every listing is somebody's own vehicle, handed over wherever they keep it, and 414 of the 610 listings measured, 67.9% of them, offered to bring it to you instead at a fee the host sets and publishes nowhere.
The one collection point that will not work is the airport. Salt Lake City International publishes an 8 ft 6 in clearance in its parking garage and a 13 ft height restriction to drive in front of the terminal, states that oversized vehicles must make special arrangements and pay additional fees, and gives no amount for those fees on any page. The words RV, recreational vehicle, motorhome, camper and trailer appear on none of its parking pages, so the economy lot is not a documented answer either. How many listings clear 8 ft 6 in cannot be stated here: only 86 of the 610 publish a height, and that field mixes decimal feet with values reading as feet and inches, so nothing in it converts safely. Get the height from the host in writing and give them an address that is not the airport.
Where in the valley you collect changes the first hour more than it changes the price. A downtown handover puts you on the wide block grid with two interstates to pick between, an airport-corridor one puts you on I-80 before the mirrors are set, and a Murray or Midvale one puts you on I-15 southbound with no valley crossing at all. No published figure separates day rates by pickup point in this market, so the address buys you a first hour rather than a discount. Choose it against the direction you are driving.
- Salt Lake City International Airport
- The I-15 and I-80 interchange
- Temple Square
Where in the valley you collect it
Each part of the Salt Lake Valley changes something concrete about the handover: the clearance overhead, the street the rig has to turn out of, or which corridor you are committed to for the first hour.
Downtown and Central City
Inside the I-15 and I-80 crossing
The blocks here are unusually wide, which is the one thing downtown offers a 30 ft Class C. What it does not offer is anywhere to leave one overnight. Decide which of the two interstates you want before you pull out of the handover, because a wrong turn downtown in a rented motorhome is a long block to unwind.
Airport corridor
I-80 west of downtown
Salt Lake City International publishes an 8 ft 6 in clearance in the parking garage and a 13 ft height restriction to drive in front of the terminal. Both are lower than most motorhomes. The airport says oversized vehicles must make special arrangements and pay additional fees, and it publishes no fee amount on any parking page, so get a figure from the Parking Division before you fly rather than at the barrier.
Sugar House and the east bench
The I-80 on-ramp side
This side of the valley feeds straight onto I-80 eastbound and up Parleys Canyon toward Park City, so a rig collected here is on a sustained climb within minutes. Take the class you know rather than the class you were curious about. The first ten minutes of a Sugar House pickup is the wrong place to learn what a loaded motorhome does on a grade.
Cottonwood canyon mouths
South-east valley
Big Cottonwood and Little Cottonwood leave the valley floor as SR-190 and SR-210. UDOT lists SR-190 among the roads it closes through the winter, typically November through May or June, and publishes no fixed date and no gate location for any of them. Check udottraffic.utah.gov the week you travel, because a gated canyon with a trailer behind you means reversing to the last turnout.
West side, Bangerter and SR-201
Between the interstate and the Oquirrhs
Bangerter Highway and SR-201 are where the wide lots and the tow vehicles are. Fifth wheels and toy haulers are 12 and 22 of the 610 listings respectively, measured, and this is usually the half of the valley they are parked in. Booking one from the east bench means a host crossing the whole valley, and the delivery fee is theirs to set.
The I-15 south corridor
Murray, Midvale and south
All five Utah national parks are reached by heading south, and every one of those routes starts on I-15. A pickup on this side of the valley removes a full north-to-south crossing of Salt Lake City from day one. Collect north of downtown instead and you spend your first hour in traffic, in a vehicle you have owned for an hour.
Before you book near Salt Lake City
- Settle where it changes hands, in writing. 414 of the 610 listings offer delivery at a fee each host sets, and none of them publishes a rate card.
- Ask for the GVWR on the door plate. At 14,001 lbs or more, Utah's rental tax does not apply however long you book.
- Book the campsite before the vehicle. A site publishes a maximum it will take; a listing never refuses a site.
Everything runs through the contact form and the host's own listing. There is no answered line.
Nearest pickup areas
West Valley City
Salt Lake County
west of downtown, inside the I-215 belt from downtown Salt Lake City
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West Jordan
Salt Lake County
southwest of downtown, off the interstate on Bangerter 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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Getting out of Salt Lake City
Downtown blocks are unusually wide, which is the single thing the grid offers a 30 ft motorhome, and there is nowhere in it to leave one overnight. Everything you are driving to is reached by turning south onto I-15 or east onto I-80, so collect on the side of the valley that matches, and treat a north-side pickup for a southern Utah trip as an hour of city traffic you chose. The limits that decide the vehicle are 300 miles away rather than here: read Zion's before you book, because the turnaround happens at Canyon Junction and not at the handover.
Where people drive to from Salt Lake City
Each of these publishes a limit that can refuse the vehicle you are booking, and the limit lives on its own page with the source next to it. Where two official sources give different distances, both are printed rather than averaged.
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
Read the limits
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 limitsPractical information for Salt Lake City
Dump stations and propane
No dump station and no propane supplier inside Salt Lake City is named in any source this site can link, so none is published here. The nearest one that is published belongs to a park: Antelope Island State Park's facilities page lists a dump station with potable water, states there are no gas stations in the park, and gives that dump station no season at all. Ask the host where they empty the tanks, whether the propane bottles are handed over full, and who pays to refill them. A motorhome collected with a quarter tank of propane in October buys you a cold first night on the road.
Campgrounds within reach
Great Salt Lake State Park publishes $60 per night for full hookups, water, electric and sewage, and caps a site at eight people and one vehicle plus camping unit. On Antelope Island, Bridger Bay is $30 a night without hookups and $40 with, $18 for a second vehicle, eight people and two vehicles to a site, and the water and electricity are in the upper loop only. Up Little Cottonwood, Salt Lake City's watershed rules allow camping in developed campgrounds and nowhere else, and prohibit dogs, horses and other domestic animals from the protected watershed outright. Book the site before the vehicle. A site closes out earlier than a listing does.
Salt Lake County rental tax
- Short-term lease
- 9.50%
- Utah state rate
- 2.50%
- Chart in effect
- 1 October 2026
Utah's 2.5% motor vehicle rate and the county's 7.00% tourism rate make up the 9.50% short-term lease row, and it sits on top of the ordinary sales and use tax rather than inside it. The off-highway column that would catch a travel trailer is blank for both the city and the county. A motorhome rated at 14,001 lbs gross vehicle weight rating or more is exempt from the motor vehicle tax at any length of rental under Utah Code 59-12-1201(5), so ask the host to photograph the door plate.
Salt Lake County carries the heaviest rental tax row in this market, and it is the county most of this fleet is parked in. The off-highway column that would catch a towable is blank for both the city and the county, so a travel trailer collected here is treated differently from the same trailer collected in Grand or Washington County, where that column reads 7.00%. A motorhome rated at 14,001 lbs gross vehicle weight rating or more is exempt from the motor vehicle tax at any length of rental under Utah Code 59-12-1201(5), and the Tax Commission's own website still publishes the superseded 12,001 lb figure, so quote the statute and ask the host to photograph the door plate.
Salt Lake County 18-000, read from the Utah State Tax Commission rate chart.
Salt Lake City RV rental questions
Not through any published arrangement. Salt Lake City International states that oversized vehicles must make special arrangements and pay additional fees, and publishes no amount for them. 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 below most motorhomes, and the words RV, motorhome, camper and trailer appear on none of its parking pages. Arrange delivery to a hotel or a lot before you fly. Land first and you are solving it on the kerb with luggage.
Two official sources disagree and both are printed here rather than averaged. The National Park Service says 300 miles and the Utah Office of Tourism says 309. The Office of Tourism's drive time is 4 hours 15 minutes, prefaced as a typical average barring inclement weather or other traffic events. Either way it is a full driving day in a vehicle you collected that morning, so plan the first night inside four hours of the valley rather than at the park gate.
No published figure compares day rates by pickup city, and this site will not estimate one. What is measured is the whole 50 mile radius around downtown: a median published day rate of $165, a mean of $186 and a range of $30 to $1,795, before tax, fees, mileage, generator hours and any delivery charge. What the valley does have is volume, 610 listings, and that is what decides whether anything in your length band is free on your dates.
414 of the 610 listings measured offered delivery, each host setting the fee. Give the host a real address with room to turn, because the airport garage clears 8 ft 6 in and the terminal drive 13 ft, and neither will take what you have booked. Agree the fee in writing before you pay a deposit: it is quoted host by host and there is no rate card anywhere.
No count is published for Salt Lake City on its own, because the marketplace is searched by radius rather than by city boundary. Across the whole 50 mile radius around downtown Salt Lake City the count was 610: 244 travel trailers, 151 Class C, 78 camper vans, 58 Class B, 37 Class A, 22 toy haulers, 12 fifth wheels and 8 folding trailers. Search on your own dates rather than on that total, because availability is what decides the booking.
Every listing measured for this market sits within 50 miles of downtown Salt Lake City, which covers Salt Lake City itself, West Valley City, West Jordan, Sandy, Draper, Lehi, Provo, Ogden, Park City and Tooele. Each host chooses where the vehicle lives and whether they will move it, so the collection point is a per-listing question rather than a city-wide one. Confirm the address before you pay. A listing that reads as Salt Lake City can hand over 50 miles from the address you assumed.
No published figure separates day rates by pickup city. Hosts set their own rates and the marketplace does not break them out by where the vehicle is parked, so there is nothing to compare on price. What the location changes is the drive: a Draper or Lehi pickup starts south of the Point of the Mountain grade, an Ogden pickup adds the length of the Salt Lake Valley to a southbound trip, and a Park City pickup means the vehicle comes up Parleys Canyon before you ever see it. Pick the collection point by the direction you are driving. An Ogden pickup for a southern Utah trip costs you the whole valley on day one.
UDOT closes SR-39 at Ogden, SR-92 at Lehi, SR-190 in Big Cottonwood, SR-224 at Park City and SR-150 out of Kamas through the winter, in its own words typically November through May or June, depending on the weather. It publishes no fixed date for any of them, and the gate points and mileposts repeated elsewhere online are not UDOT's figures. Check udottraffic.utah.gov the week you travel, not the month before. A road that was open last season can be gated when you arrive, and a canyon road is a bad place to discover a motorhome's turning circle.
Renting an RV in Salt Lake City
Agree the handover address with the host before you book the flight. Salt Lake City International names no RV, motorhome, camper or trailer anywhere on its parking pages and publishes no figure for parking one, so there is nothing to plan against, and 414 of the 610 listings here will bring the vehicle to an address instead. Land without that settled and you are arranging the handover from a terminal kerb.