About Hovenweep Campground
Number of accommodations: 29
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Open year round
This campground is open year round, providing flexibility for your stay.
Campground Amenities
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Pet friendly
Fire Pit
Water and Hygiene
- Potable Water
Cooking and Fire
- Fire Pit
Pets and Policies
- Pet friendly
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Reviews (422)
What Guests Are Saying
Hovenweep Campground offers a beautiful and well-maintained setting with excellent facilities, including clean restrooms and unique sunshade structures. Visitors enjoy fantastic stargazing and hiking trails that lead directly to ancient ruins. However, some campers experienced disturbances from loud generators and suggested enforcing quiet hours, along with a need for additional restroom facilities.
What Guests Are Saying
Hovenweep Campground offers a beautiful and well-maintained setting with excellent facilities, including clean restrooms and unique sunshade structures. Visitors enjoy fantastic stargazing and hiking trails that lead directly to ancient ruins. However, some campers experienced disturbances from loud generators and suggested enforcing quiet hours, along with a need for additional restroom facilities.
Review Summary
Thomas H
VerifiedMay 20, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 6, Loop: Hovenweep
Campsite was good, However we bitten by noseeums bugs. No notice about that on the website or the visitor center
craig s
VerifiedMay 19, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 14, Loop: Hovenweep
Totally awesome spot! The dark sky stars are fantastic! loved the sun shade structures, as have never seen anything like that at a state or national park. Facilities are very well maintained. Though it is a truck and in the middle of nowhere, it is worth it as a totally impressive site of the ancient pueblo people.
Thomas S
VerifiedMay 17, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 14, Loop: Hovenweep
We had multiple sites reserved for a reunion of friends... the folks in this site packed up and left without even spending the night due to LOUD GENERATORS.
Thomas S
VerifiedMay 17, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 15, Loop: Hovenweep
Hovenweep has been "discovered" and is now frequented by big rigs with generators. The generator noise ruined our experience in camp both mornings and evenings. Why can't NPS impose generator hours such as 12noon to 4pm like Utah state parks such as Kodachrome? We go camping for some peace and quiet, but you won't find it here.
Mike S
VerifiedMay 16, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 23, Loop: Hovenweep
Nice basic, well kept. This is a place that could do without generators. It is so quiet that when a motor runs it impacts the whole camp. We do appreciate the limited hours of their use.
Glenn W
VerifiedMay 15, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 28, Loop: Hovenweep
Clean, organized campground w nice views
WILLIAM M
VerifiedMay 15, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 4, Loop: Hovenweep
Great little campground with excellent hiking trails right into the ruins. Beautiful views of Sleeping Ute Mountain and a very nice visitor center made for a great stay. I'd avoid the hot summer months out there but any other time including winter would be great.
Robert C
VerifiedMay 15, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 24, Loop: Hovenweep
The campsite and location are fantastic. The setting is beautiful, the sky is so dark, restrooms were very clean, and there is hiking right from the campground. This is my third time staying here, and I always look forward to coming here.
Some issues: be careful about the site you pick as some won't handle an RV and are not level enough for an RV. In addition, there were three unattended dogs on the Holly Ruins trail. I'm not sure if they were owned by someone or it they were wild/feral, but they acted in an aggressive manner and I had to turn around on the hike because of that.
Thomas S
VerifiedMay 14, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 22, Loop: Hovenweep
Loud generators ruined the natural quietude mornings and evenings. How about generator hours like the state parks... 12 noon to 4pm only, so our mornings and evenings in camp aren't ruined?? We were in site 13... very difficult to level... have lots of nlocks if you want to level there.
Chris L
VerifiedMay 13, 2026 • Stayed at: Site 24, Loop: Hovenweep
The stay was perfect. The campground needs another bathroom though. There's only one hole each for men and women....
Location Hovenweep Campground
Address:
Hovenweep National Monument
Cortez, CO, 81321
United States
Turn by turn directions from Cortez, Blanding, or Bluff can be found on the Directions and Transportation page of Hovenweep's website.
Hovenweep Campground is accessible via Hovenweep Access Road, which connects to US Highway 491 approximately 25 miles to the east.
Latitude & Longitude: 37.3832 / -109.071
Elevation: 1591 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
11AM
Check out time
10AM
General
- Camping is only permitted in the designated campground. Each campsite is limited to 8 persons, 2 tents, and 2 vehicles (a trailer counts as one vehicle).
- Hammocks and other items must not be strung on tree branches or limbs.
- If your plans change and you are unable to make it for your reservation. Please go and cancel using Recreation.gov. That way the site can become available for other campers. As demand for a site is high and there is limited space.
- Flush toilets available year-round.
- Wood fires in grates only. Wood gathering is prohibited. Do not leave garbage in fire grates. Charcoal cooking fires are allowed in fire pans and grills. Place ashes in fire grates. Properly extinguish all fires.
- All motor vehicles must be parked on designated vehicle pads and must not extend into the roadway. Vehicle barriers may not be moved to enlarge the available parking space.
- Campground ‘Generator Hours’ are from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. and from 4:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
- Length of stay is limited to seven (7) nights (consecutively or non-consecutively) in any 30-day period or a total of 14 nights per year.
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Last updated: June 4, 2026
