Bears Ears
Overnight rules here are set locally — check before you go
Camping rules for this unit come from its founding proclamation and management plan, which are not published in the data behind this page. Many monuments and conservation lands allow camping only in designated sites. Check the managing office's official page before planning to stay overnight.
Rules change with fire season and local order. Checked 2026-08-05. Confirm on the managing office’s official page
- Area
- 2,397 sq mi
- Managed by
- BLM
- Campgrounds
- 8
- Longest rig
- Not published
Where the land is, and what fits
The official BLM boundary with every campground we hold inside it. Tell it how long your rig is and the map keeps only what takes it — public land rarely matches the shape people picture, and neither does what you can actually get into.
Official unit boundary · Bureau of Land Management · 8 campgrounds shown
- Creek Pasture Campground32 sitesSeason not published
- Creek Pasture Group Site1 sites · Pull-throughSeason not published
- Hamburger Rock Campground10 sitesSeason not published
- Indian Creek Falls Group Site1 sites · Pull-throughSeason not published
- Sand Island Group Sites2 sites · Pull-throughSeason not published
- Sand Island Recreation Area23 sitesSeason not published
- Superbowl Campground37 sitesSeason not published
- Superbowl Group Site1 sitesSeason not published
Bears Ears
This 1.35 million-acre monument protects one of the most significant cultural landscapes in the country, with thousands of archaeological sites and important areas of Native American spiritual significance. Abundant rock art, ancient cliff dwellings, ceremonial kivas, and countless other artifacts provide an extraordinary archaeological and cultural record, all surrounded by a dramatic backdrop of deep sandstone canyons, desert mesas, forested highlands, and the monument’s namesake twin buttes.
Bears Ears National Monument is a United States national monument located in San Juan County in southeastern Utah, established by President Barack Obama by presidential proclamation on December 28, 2016. The monument protects 1,351,849 acres of public land surrounding the Bears Ears—a pair of buttes—and the Indian Creek corridor rock climbing area. The Native American names for the buttes have the same meaning in each of the languages represented in the region. The names are listed in the presidential proclamation as "Hoon’Naqvut, Shash Jáa [sic], Kwiyaghatʉ Nükavachi/Kwiyagatu Nukavachi, Ansh An Lashokdiwe"—all four mean "Bears Ears".
Extract from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA.
Byways through this country
Places worth pulling over
National parks close enough to pair
Drive to Bears Ears the long way
Byway plans the road in, not just the destination — real places along the way, weighted to what you like, with nothing invented.