Moab local guide
The Moab Office of Tourism notes that the city has no public long-term parking areas, so an RV, boat or trailer you aren't using goes to a private lot. Star Point runs indoor and outdoor parking open 24 hours a day, with a long-term lot on Highway 191 south of town and a short-term lot on East Spanish Trail Road. A-1 Storage on South Highway 191 has auto, RV and trailer spaces plus insulated units up to 13x38 feet that it says never go above 80 degrees, and Moab Valley Storage has outside RV, boat and Jeep parking at its Terrace Drive and Sunny Acres locations behind a keypad gate.
Most boating here is on the Colorado River. The launches mapped in OpenStreetMap run from Potash Boat Ramp downstream of town to Take Out Beach, Sandy Beach, Onion Creek, Hittle Bottom and Dewey Bridge upriver along Highway 128, plus Mineral Bottom on the Green River to the west. Moab's outfitters rent inflatable kayaks, paddle rafts, canoes and paddleboards and run shuttles: Wild West Voyages, Paddle Moab and Way to Moab focus on day trips on the Colorado, while Moab Canoe and Tex's Riverways outfit multi-day canoe trips through Labyrinth and Stillwater canyons on the Green and Meander Canyon on the Colorado. Wild West Voyages also points paddleboarders to Kens Lake.
Utah's aquatic invasive species rules apply to every craft. Anyone launching a boat, including a kayak or paddleboard, must take the annual mussel-aware boater course, and motorized boats must also pay an annual AIS program enrollment fee, which is separate from Motor Vehicle Division registration and comes with its own decal. Drain plugs must be out when leaving a waterbody and while trailering. Lake Powell, the only Utah water with confirmed quagga mussels, requires an exit inspection, and the Division of Wildlife Resources sets dry times of 7 days in summer, 18 in spring and fall, and 30 in winter before relaunching elsewhere without a professional decontamination. The DWR notes some AIS law changes take effect January 1, 2027.
Two dump stations sit on the south side of town, including the paid station at Farm & City Feed and RV Supply, and three more about 12 miles out of town, all from OpenStreetMap. The boat ramps list covers the public slipways mapped within about 25 miles; we left out a cluster of unnamed points mapped near the potash evaporation ponds south of Potash Road, which we couldn't confirm as public launches.
Across our three Moab guides we currently list 3 storage facilities, 5 RV dump stations, 7 named boat launches and 5 boat rental businesses. Storage details come from each facility’s own website and the date we checked it. Dump stations and ramps come from OpenStreetMap. We never add prices, ratings or availability that a source does not publish.
Sources, checked November 3, 2026: