Sandpit Campground

Sand Hollow State Park is a HUGE area with 4 camping areas. Two campgrounds are improved with paved roads and sites with hookups (Westside and Lakeview), one has gravel pull through sites (Sandpit) and one area is dispersed camping.

Contrary to the name, this is not a sand pit! The loop road and campsites are gravel with a primitive feel. Sites had tables and fire pits, some sites did have power. Not really tent friendly, definitely big rig friendly. There are large dumpsters near the restrooms. Camp host was on duty.

The $35 fee is high for a dry site, but the park does charge day use fees of $15/20 for residents and are $20/25 for nonresidents. Boy was it busy on Sunday with day users!

This campground was very busy in mid April, Sunday through Wednesday. There are 5 group sites and the remainder of the sites are pull throughs, mostly HUGE. (At one time these huge pull throughs were double sites, most are now single sites.) The campground was pretty quiet considering how many rigs were there due to the full group sites. There is highway noise but it does quiet down at night.

The other campgrounds in this park (Lakeside and Westside) were also busy with OHV enthusiasts, but in seemed quieter and less dusty since they are paved campgrounds with no group area.

Definitely caters to the off roaders. You are able to ride your OHV from the campground to the OHV area through a tunnel to the other side of the highway. I think of my non OHV friends, they would not like it here!

Restrooms were very nice, clean and stocked. One building had 4 private restrooms and one building had 4 private restrooms with free showers. Attached to the building are outdoor sinks and drinking fountains.

Dump station is available near the entrance, free to registered campers.

Update: the original review was written prior to my visit to the dump / water site at the Westside Campground. This CG sits across the lake from Sand Pit CG and is more accommodating to the typical RVer.

We definitely were in the minority as most of the Sand Pit CG was filled with UTV devotees. They were here for a rally which thankfully we were able to avoid by leaving early the next morning. Sand Hollow Sand Pit CG is essentially just that, a sand pit with camping sites, and it is not what I have come to expect from Utah SP. it would qualify as a dispersed camping destination were it not for the designated camping sites and the steep price: $28 for the site and an $8 transaction charge. Water and a dump were available but nowhere near our site. Perhaps, it might be more accommodating at other times; however, I don’t plan on returning to verify.

Sand Hollow actually has two campgrounds - the "Westside" campground which has pads and full hookups and the "Sand Pit" Campground, which has partial hookups (electricity and water) in a dirt/gravel area. This review is for the Sand Pit campground.

We stayed at this park in order to visit Zion and the surrounding area. The campground is somewhat convenient - about 45 minutes from the park depending on traffic.

The sandpit campground is on the south side of the lake. The roads and sites are compressed gravel and all sites are pull-throughs. However, the site utilities are on the passenger side.

This campground caters to OHV users and most people camped here had OHV's. The noise was not that bad as the vehicles did not spend much time around the campground, but they did generate a lot of dust.

The shower/bath house is very nice and looks newly built.

The dump station is near the other (Westside) campground on the other side of the lake.

There's not much else to say, this was a good stop for us but nothing special.