Snow Canyon State Park
Canyon · Ivins, Utah
Seven thousand four hundred acres of red and white Navajo sandstone near Ivins and St George, cut by a canyon and overlaid by the lava flows, lava tubes and cinder cones of the extinct Santa Clara Volcano. It sits inside the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and it has been filmed constantly — Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969, The Conqueror in 1956, High School Musical 2 in 2007. It gets about seven and a half inches of rain a year and summer temperatures near Ivins reach around 101°F, which decides when you should come.
Snow Canyon Drive, Ivins, Utah, United States
Open year round. A Utah State Parks day-use fee is charged per vehicle, typically about $10-$20, with the state parks annual pass accepted; camping — 17 multi-use sites and 14 RV sites — is booked through Utah State Parks and fills through the mild winter season, which is peak here. ⚠ THIS IS A WINTER-AND-SPRING PARK: it receives about 7.5 inches of rain a year and summer temperatures near Ivins reach around 101°F, so midday walking from June to September is genuinely hazardous and the useful hours are early morning and late afternoon. ⚠ BRING A TORCH IF YOU INTEND TO ENTER THE LAVA TUBES. There is no shade on most trails and no water beyond the developed areas. The park lies within the Red Cliffs Desert Reserve and is minutes from St George, on the natural route between Las Vegas and Zion.
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