Lake Powell pontoon rentals: 2026 rates by marina

Quick answer

Two marinas rent pontoons at Lake Powell and they run the business differently: one boat versus 7, an 8-hour day versus 11, and a couple hundred dollars between similar decks.

Where	Boat	Seats	2026 full day	Hourly
Wahweap & Halls Crossing	23-ft pontoon, 150 hp	12	$479–$599 by season	Not offered
Antelope Point	22-ft JC, 200 hp	8	From $725	$145
Antelope Point	26-ft JC, 250 hp	14	From $769	$156
Antelope Point	24-ft Lowe, 200 hp	10	$798	$152
Antelope Point	26-ft Lowe, 250 hp	10	$819	$167
Antelope Point	28-ft JC, 250 hp	16	From $824	$173
Antelope Point	44-ft party barge	12	From $875	Not offered
Antelope Point	44-ft patio tri-toon	12	From $985	Not offered
Lone Rock (off-site, Page)	Bennington SL22 / SL23	13	Not published	3-day minimum

How much does a pontoon boat rental cost at Lake Powell?

$479 to $985 a day in 2026, and the marina you pick moves the number more than the boat does. Lake Powell Resorts rents one pontoon — a 23-foot, 150 hp boat seating 12, available at Wahweap and Halls Crossing — at $479 a day from January 1 to May 15 and again from October 4, $559 from May 16 to June 12 and August 24 to October 3, and $599 from June 13 to August 23. That boat is rated to pull “wakeboards, kneeboards, ski tubes, and water skis,” which the Wahweap jet ski is not.

Antelope Point Marina starts where Wahweap tops out. Its 22-foot JC pontoon books from $725 for a day, the 26-foot JC from $769, and the 28-foot JC from $824. Two 44-foot patio boats sit above those, a party barge from $875 and a tri-toon from $985. The 24-foot and 26-foot Lowe pontoons appear only on the rentals page, at $798 and $819.

Check which of the marina’s two numbers you are being quoted. Each boat’s own page lists a “1 day rental price” — $725 on the 22-foot JC, $824 on the 28-foot — while the rentals page lists the same boats about 5% higher after rounding, at $761 and $865, with the deposit set to the unrounded figure of $865.20 on the 28-footer. Budget the higher price and treat the lower one as the floor.

For that money you get more sizes, bigger engines, a longer day, and a dock the marina advertises as 30 to 90 minutes closer to the canyons by boat. Our boat rentals guide puts these numbers next to the houseboat and powerboat classes if you are still choosing a boat type.

Wahweap or Antelope Point: which pontoon rental fits your day?

Compare the hours first, because the two marinas hand you different amounts of day. Lake Powell Resorts releases the boat at 8am and wants it back fueled and unloaded by 4pm from May 15 to September 30, and runs 9am to 3pm the rest of the year. Antelope Point starts rentals at 7am with a 6pm return, though all rentals stop going out at 3:30pm. On a summer day that is 8 hours from Wahweap against as much as 11 from the Point, on boats the marina rates at 20 to 25 mph cruising.

Then check the ages in your group. Wahweap and Halls Crossing require the renter to be 18 or older. Antelope Point limits rentals to adults 21 or older holding a valid automobile driver’s license, which rules out an 18-year-old renter who clears the bar 5 miles down the shoreline.

The rest is fit. Wahweap has one deck at one price band. Antelope Point runs 5 pontoon sizes plus two 44-foot patio boats with a waterslide and a toilet, engines up to 250 hp against Wahweap’s 150, and fuel tanks of 49 to 55 gallons on the 22- to 28-foot hulls. Our Antelope Point marina guide covers the approach, parking and cart service.

Can you rent a pontoon boat by the hour at Lake Powell?

At Antelope Point, yes — $145 for the 22-foot JC up to $173 for the 28-foot, with a 2-hour minimum. The catch is that you cannot book it. Its rental page puts it plainly: “Reservations are made for full-day rental prices only,” and hourly boats go out walk-in, first come, first served at the rental dock. Show up early on a July morning or plan on the full day.

For a lot of trips that math works. A 3-hour run to the Antelope Canyon arm and back sits under $500 on the 22-foot boat, against $725 and up for a day you will not use. Lake Powell Resorts publishes no hourly pontoon rate, so a short outing from Wahweap costs the full $479 to $599 either way.

How far can you take a rental pontoon in one day?

One tank of fuel covers the south lake and no more, which puts Rainbow Bridge out of reach. Antelope Point answers the question on its own rental page: with Dangling Rope Marina closed, “there is simply not enough fuel to make it to Rainbow Bridge and back to the marina,” and its own courtesy dock no longer reaches the trail — our Rainbow Bridge guide covers that 100-mile round trip in a boat with the range for it. When Dangling Rope shut, the Park Service described what went with it: “the only place to obtain boat fuel between the Wahweap area in South Lake Powell and the Bullfrog area in North Lake Powell, a distance of approximately 100 miles.” Three fuel docks remain, all of them at the ends of the lake.

The south lake list is long enough to fill a week of day trips. Antelope Point names Navajo Canyon, Warm Creek, Labyrinth Canyon, Gunsight Canyon, Face Canyon, West Canyon and Last Chance as half-day and full-day targets from its dock. Our distance guide puts numbers on the near end: Antelope Canyon is about 4 nautical miles from Wahweap, Navajo Canyon opens at buoy 10 roughly 5 miles above either south marina, and Labyrinth is about 12 miles out from Antelope Point and under 20 from Wahweap.

Two limits bite before fuel does. Rainbow Bridge, Antelope, Labyrinth and Lost Eden canyons are all wakeless zones, so the last miles into the best stops happen at idle speed. And a pontoon is a flat deck with a lot of side to it — the boaters on Wayne’s Words who run tritoons here talk about trimming the bow up in rough water and steering around chop a deep-V would ignore. Padre Bay at 2pm in a spring wind is not pontoon water. Plan the long leg for morning and drift home. The fuel planning guide has the range math for the rest of the lake.

What do you pay on top of the daily rate?

In rough order of size:

1. Fuel. Rental boats leave with a full tank and come back full, on tanks of 49 to 55 gallons at Antelope Point and 70 to 110 on the 44-footers. Antelope Point will not let you carry spare fuel either: its cart service refuses gas cans, and cans aboard void the rental contract.
2. Deposit or waiver. Both marinas make you choose between a refundable damage deposit and a waiver of liability at check-in. At Antelope Point the deposit matches the boat’s rentals-page price to the cent.
3. Park entrance. Glen Canyon charges $30 per private vehicle for 7 days, or $55 for the annual park pass. The park does not accept cash. Antelope Point charges the same $30 at its own entrance station on Navajo Nation land, and having a boat reserved does not exempt you.
4. Tax, which neither marina folds into the posted rate.

The Glen Canyon Vessel Pass — $30 weekly for a boat 26 feet and under — applies to private motorized vessels. Ask the marina whether its fleet is already covered rather than buying one twice.

Where do off-site pontoon rentals launch?

At exactly one ramp on the south lake. The Park Service ramp table dated 8/20/2026 lists Wahweap Stateline Auxiliary as the only south-lake ramp available to small motorized boats; Wahweap Main, both Antelope Point ramps and Halls Crossing are closed to them, and boaters are told to rig in the Stateline Main Ramp parking lot. Marina renters step onto a boat that is already floating at the dock.

So an off-site company either launches the boat for you or you rig it yourself at Stateline. Lone Rock Boat Rentals in Page runs Bennington SL22 and SL23 pontoons capped at 13 people and pre-launches every boat — “in the water, and ready” — on a 3-day minimum, with no rate published online. Dreamkatchers Lake Powell lists the same 23-foot Wahweap pontoon and quotes by phone. The other Page outfitters we checked list ski and surf boats, no pontoons, so the off-site field is thin — and a 3-day minimum only pencils out if you were staying that long anyway.

Key takeaways

1. Wahweap and Halls Crossing rent one 23-foot pontoon at $479 to $599 a day; Antelope Point rents 5 sizes from $725 to $824, plus 44-foot patio boats at $875 and $985.
2. Antelope Point lists two prices for the same boat — the rentals page runs about 5% above each boat’s own page. Book against the higher one.
3. Hourly rental exists only at Antelope Point: $145 to $173, 2-hour minimum, walk-in, no reservations.
4. Rainbow Bridge is out of range on a day tank. Navajo, Labyrinth, Face, West Canyon and Last Chance are in.
5. Wahweap rents to 18-year-olds, Antelope Point to 21 and up with a driver’s license.