Katurum Kidepo Lodge
Lodge with rooms and a two-bedroom suite · Loitanit, on the Kidepo to Gulu road, 18 km from the park · Independent, Ugandan owned
We don't have a photograph of Katurum Kidepo Lodge yet. We only publish images we are licensed to use, so this is an illustration rather than the real thing. Run this lodge? Send us your photos and we will swap it the same week.
Mid-range
Outside the gate
Locally owned
Eighteen kilometres from the park on the Kidepo to Gulu road, which makes it a staging post rather than a base for dawn drives. Rooms have their own bathrooms and a seating area, there is a restaurant, a bar, a garden and a terrace, and the two-bedroom suite sleeps four, which is unusual here. It also runs an airport shuttle, so it is one of the few options if you are arriving without a vehicle. Ugandan owned and new enough to have no reviews yet.
Why you'd pick it
- One of the few places out on the Gulu road rather than at the gates
- Two-bedroom suite that sleeps four, which is rare around this park
- Runs an airport shuttle, so you can arrive without your own vehicle
What's here
- Restaurant
- Bar
- Family rooms
- En-suite bathrooms
We could not reach a website for Katurum Kidepo Lodge, so this list is incomplete by definition. Ask them directly.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Kidepo Valley National Park charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside, and almost no booking site shows you that.
Two adults, three nights
- Park entry$40 per adult per 24 hours
- $240
- Vehicle$40 a day. Foreign-registered car; a Ugandan-registered hire car is about $6
- $120
- Before you pay for a bed
- $360
Rates
On request. Rates are only shown once you enter dates on the booking platform, and the property publishes none elsewhere. The band above is our reading rather than a quoted figure. There is no review score yet, which usually means it opened recently.
Rates gathered July 2026 from operators' own published rate cards where they exist. Kidepo is unusual: nine of the eleven properties we found publish no prices at all, and several widely-listed lodges could not be verified as operating. Where we show no price, none is published; always confirm directly. Buffalo Base Guesthouse and Campsite in Karenga village was on this list until July 2026. A contact on the ground reports it closed at the start of the year. We could not reach the property to confirm, so we have taken it off rather than send anyone eight kilometres to a locked gate. NAMONI Lodge, Zebra Safari Lodge and Katurum Kidepo Lodge were added on 28 July 2026 after a reader pointed out we had missed them. All three are Ugandan owned. NAMONI's entry comes from the lodge's own 2026-27 brochure. The other two publish nothing themselves, so their entries come from booking platforms, which we say plainly because it is a weaker source than we normally use.