Hotels Near Antelope Canyon: Where to Stay Around Page

Why Page works as the base for hotels near Antelope Canyon

Your room will always be outside the park boundary: Lake Powell Navajo Tribal Park has no beds of any kind, and the canyon itself is closed to anyone arriving without a licensed operator, since a Navajo guide is required at every Antelope Canyon location and the whole park area is reached on a booked guided tour. That makes your base a logistics question rather than a scenery question. What you are really choosing is how far you have to drive before check-in.

Page sits in the middle of everything. Drive east on Highway 98 and you reach the Upper Antelope park entrance after about three miles, the point where 4x4 tour vehicles pick groups up. Turn off the same highway onto Indian Route 222 and the Lower Antelope site is under 10 minutes from a town room, with parking that costs nothing. Antelope Canyon X checks in farther out, at Milepost 308 on Highway AZ-98. Horseshoe Bend pulls you the opposite way, south on US Highway 89 to the trailhead between mile markers 545 and 544, around 5 miles beyond the Carl Hayden Visitor Center.

If you are flying in, Page Municipal Airport is inside town at 238 10th Avenue, with daily Contour Airlines service to Phoenix, rental cars on site and charter operators including Antelope Air, Grand Canyon Airlines, Papillon Helicopters and Westwind Aviation. One lakeside address handles the transfer for you: Lake Powell Resort at Wahweap includes a complimentary airport shuttle both ways in the $14.99 per room per night resort fee it adds to the rate.

The hotel strip in town

The cluster of hotels along and around Lake Powell Boulevard is the default answer, and for most visitors it is the right one. From there you are a few minutes from the Highway 98 turn east, a few minutes from the US-89 turn south toward Horseshoe Bend, and a few minutes from the tribal park office at 337 N. Navajo Drive if you need to ask a question in person.

Town is also the only area that fits a tour with hotel pick-up. The long day listed on this site carries round-trip transportation from select hotels, which is a meaningful reason to sleep in Page rather than out by the water. One of the shorter tours here checks in at 821 US-89, inside town, so a central room turns the morning into a short walk or a five-minute drive.

Evenings are easy: restaurants, shops and fuel are all in the same few blocks, which matters when a tour ends late in the afternoon and nobody wants to drive again. Summer nights stay warm, with July averaging a daily maximum near 96.0 °F, while January runs to an average maximum of about 42.9 °F and lows near 24.7 °F, so a car park next to the door earns its keep in winter.

• Suits: first-time visitors, anyone without a car, anyone booked on a tour with hotel pick-up
• Distance to the entrances: about 3 miles east for Upper, under 10 minutes for the Lower Antelope site
• Nearby in the evening: the town's restaurants and shops, and the US-89 road south to Horseshoe Bend

The lakeside and the marina

Wahweap is 8 road miles and about 14 minutes from Page, which is the quietest version of being close. You trade the walkable strip of restaurants for water views and the airport shuttle, and you add a quarter of an hour onto every departure. For a tour with a 45-minute check-in, that is the difference between leaving at a civilised hour and leaving in the dark.

The other lakeside address, Antelope Point at 537 Marina Parkway, is a 9-mile drive of roughly 15 minutes, with the final turn onto Marina Parkway coming off Highway 98. Geographically it is the closest base to the canyon entrances, because it hangs off the same highway you drive east on. The marina has its own RV park plus dining, fuel and boat rental, and it sits on Navajo Nation land with a $30 entrance fee to get in, waived for National Park Service, Golden Age and Senior pass holders. Factor that fee into a multi-night stay.

Pick the lakeside if the water is part of your trip. Kayakers get the most out of a room here: the Park Service names Antelope Point the key access point for paddlers heading to Antelope Canyon, though its public launch ramp currently takes paddlecraft only. Lake Powell stood at 3,519.10 feet on 13 October 2026 against a full pool of 3,700 feet, so check conditions before you plan a stay around a boat.

Camping near Page, Arizona

Wahweap RV & Campground is the big organised option on this side of the lake, open year-round, 8 road miles from town. It has 139 full-hookup sites with 30 and 50 amp service, water and septic across loops A, B, C, D and F, taking RVs up to 45 feet; 112 tent or self-contained RV sites in loops 2, 3 and 4; 36 tent-only sites in loop 1; and a group tent area in loop G for 9 to 25 people. Office hours move with the season, for example 7:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. from 2 July to 30 September and 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. between 1 December and 28 February, so a late winter arrival needs planning.

The campgrounds run by the Park Service inside Glen Canyon work differently: they take no reservations at all. You choose a site, then pay online afterwards, and paying does not hold the site for you. Turn up early in the day in peak months rather than late. At Lees Ferry the lower loop is open while the upper loop is closed for renovations.

Primitive camping along the Lake Powell shoreline outside the developed marinas needs no camping fee and no permit, though the park entrance fee still applies at $30 per private vehicle for seven days or $15 per person arriving on foot or by bicycle, and vessel fees apply on the water. Tent camping in midsummer is hard work with July maxima near 96.0 °F, and the Arizona monsoon runs from 15 June to 30 September with moisture usually reaching northern Arizona in the first week of July, so plan for afternoon weather.

• Full hookups and big rigs: Wahweap, 139 sites, RVs up to 45 feet
• Tents: 36 tent-only sites in loop 1 at Wahweap, plus 112 tent or self-contained RV sites
• Groups: loop G at Wahweap, for 9 to 25 people
• RV by the water nearest the entrances: the RV park at Antelope Point, 9 road miles from Page
• First-come, first-served: the Park Service campgrounds in Glen Canyon, including the lower loop at Lees Ferry
• Free and primitive: shoreline sites away from the marinas, with entrance and vessel fees still due

Staying outside Page, on the Utah road and the Grand Canyon road

Heading north-west on US-89, the Big Water and Kanab direction is the one to use if Page is a single night on a longer loop into southern Utah. It is also the sensible side to sleep on if you have drawn a day-use permit for Coyote Buttes North in the Vermilion Cliffs, which is issued by lottery. The cost is distance: you lose the few-minute hop to the Highway 98 entrances, and with the Lower Antelope site running from 6:15 a.m. in summer, an early slot becomes a pre-dawn drive.

South-west on US-89 toward the Grand Canyon, Lees Ferry and Marble Canyon are 43 road miles and about 50 minutes from Page. The Navajo Bridge Interpretive Center sits at Navajo Bridge just before the Lees Ferry turnoff, at roughly the same distance. This is the base for anglers and for anyone driving on toward the canyon rim the next morning, but it is not a base for a dawn canyon tour: 50 minutes each way plus a 45-minute check-in adds up fast. The Waterhole Canyon office is closer in, on US-89 at milepost 541.5 about 5.5 miles south of town.

East of Page, Highway 98 runs onto Navajo Nation land past all three canyon check-ins, so any stay out that way puts you nearest the entrances. Two rules apply there and catch people out: alcohol possession and consumption are prohibited across the Navajo Nation, and dogs and other pets are banned at every Navajo Tribal Park location, including Antelope Canyon. Plan dinner around Page or the marina at Antelope Point, and keep the tank full.

How early to book, and matching your base to the check-in time

March to November is the peak window and canyon tours sell out in it, with summer described by an authorised operator as the busiest stretch of all. Book the tours listed here as soon as your dates are fixed, then choose the lodging area around the departure you have, rather than the other way round. The tours on this site can be cancelled at no cost up to 24 hours before departure, which gives you room to shuffle if your accommodation changes.

Plan the morning backwards from the check-in time. The Upper Antelope tour listed here asks you to arrive 30 minutes early, and the Lower Antelope check-in is 45 minutes before the tour time. Add the drive: nothing from a town hotel, about 14 minutes from Wahweap, about 15 from Antelope Point, about 50 from Lees Ferry. A 7 a.m. or 8 a.m. canyon slot and a base 50 minutes away is a combination you will regret.

Set a watch before you go to bed. Your tour runs on Arizona time, which skips daylight saving, while the Navajo Nation around it does observe it, so a phone that has latched onto the local network can show the hour wrong. Summer hours at the tribal park are listed as 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., with closures on Thanksgiving Day, Navajo Nation Family Day the day after, Christmas Day and New Year's Day, so check those dates against your booking before you pay for a room. Book one night more than the itinerary strictly needs in July, August and September, because Navajo Nation Parks states in capital letters that bad weather can shut the canyons at short notice.

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