How To Get A Permit For Beaver Falls, Arizona (Havasupai)

Now for the boring, but necessary part.  The permit is a hassle.  You might wait years for it!

The Havasupai Tribe restricts the number of visitors allowed to the campground and waterfalls, to keep the place from becoming over-run and trashed.

Permits for 2023 are all taken, but some people who reserved them pre-pandemic are now finding: they don’t want to make the trip or can no longer make the trip to Havasupai Falls.  Those cancelations are posted each morning at 8:00am on the official Havasupai Tribe’s Tourism website.  They tend to be snatched up within a few minutes.

For 2024 permits to Havasupai Falls, you’ll have to wait for February 1st, which is when the Havasupai Tribe traditionally opens reservations for the entire year.

While the Tribe doesn’t publish official numbers, they allow roughly 100 permits a day, which amounts to around 30,000 per year.  Havasupai Falls is usually closed to visitors in December and January.

The cost of a permit to visit Havasupai Falls is now up near $400.  It’s a dramatic increase for people who last came in the 2000s and paid $35.

The Tribe cites the expense of hauling out garbage, repairing bridges and trails, and other factors as reasons for the increase in cost to visit Havasupai Falls. Without roads, the Tribe often has to fly loads of garbage out of the campground, at great expense.

For me, when I think of a cost of a trip to a place like Disney World, the added expense for a trip to Havasupai Falls is well worth it!