Ruby’s Inn RV Park & Campground

We are lucky to have so many national parks relatively close.  One of our favorites is Bryce Canyon.  Seriously, if we lived closer, we’d probably visit once a month.

Our favorite place to stay is Ruby’s just outside the park.

Ruby’s story goes back to the early 1900’s when Rueben “Ruby” Syrett moved his family to the area.  They loved Bryce Canyon and soon set up a small lodge called Tourist Rest at Sunset Point.  When Bryce Canyon became a National Monument in 1923, Ruby moved his lodge to the family farm and renamed it Ruby’s Inn which the family still owns and runs to this day.

Ruby’s campground is more of a complex than a regular campground.  There is a huge general store where you can buy t-shirts, groceries and pretty jewelry.  The lodge is a huge hotel that also houses a restaurant, theater and an adventure tour company.  Across the street are cute shops to stroll through along with a rodeo Wednesday-Saturday nights.

Back to the fabulous campground.

 

 

There are 250 total spaces, most are situated among the pine trees giving great shade and the woodsy experience.  They are nicely spaced, not jammed together.

 

We like to stay “outback” in one of 44 newer sites that are huge.  Each site has a picnic table and a firepit.  The outback spaces also have a large grass patch at each site which our Daisy loved.  The pine trees have grown a bit since our first visit in 2016.  We hit the trails in our Jeep that first trip and have taken the RZR on all of our other visits.  Either way, we fit nicely.

 

If a Teepee strikes your fancy, you’re in luck with eight. If a cabin is more your style, they have five.

 

Ruby’s is also a great place for group camping. There are 11 large spots with bathrooms and shower houses close by.

It’s a short walk to the store, restaurants and the rest of Bryce Canyon City.

 

The area around Bryce Canyon has some of the darkest skies in the country which makes stargazing fabulous from your site in your comfy camp chair.  That first trip in 2016 was during the Perseid Meteor Shower; what a show!  We saw several shooting stars and satellites along with the ISS and a brilliant Milky Way on our last trip last month.

 

It’s easy to get from the campground to the Bryce Canyon entrance gate by either car or shuttle.  UTVs aren’t allowed inside the park so we walk to the front of the campground and hop on the shuttle bus.  If you drive, it’s a whopping 2.2-mile drive to the gate.  The shuttle will drop you at one of several sites.  We usually get off at the Sunset Point stop then reboard at the Lodge stop when ready to head back to the campground.