Aspen (UT)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Aspen Campground is nestled in the scenic North Fork Drainage just off Highway 35, about 13 miles from Tabiona, Utah. The North Fork Drainage lies on the southern slope of the beautiful Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah. Visitors enjoy fly-fishing and exploring the many local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for brook, brown and rainbow trout is a popular activity on the North Fork Duchesne. Hiking, mountain biking, OHV and horseback riding trails are in the area.
Facilities
The campground contains single and double-family sites, all with picnic tables and campfire rings. Some sites overlook the river. One group site for up to 32 people is also available and is equipped with picnic tables, serving tables and a campfire circle with benches. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a forest of aspen, subalpine fir, lodgepole pine and spruce just above the North Fork Duchesne River at an elevation of 7,200 feet. The campground affords beautiful views of the surrounding canyon and summer wildflowers are plentiful.
Nearby Attractions
The North Fork Drainage provides access to the Granddaddy Lake region of the High Uintas via Grandview Trail. Numerous sparkling lakes provide great backcountry fishing. Backpacking, hiking and horseback riding are very popular in this breathtaking area.
What the agency tells you
Due to a sanitation system failure, drinking water is not available until further notice
Single sites are allowed 8 people, 1 vehicle, 1 RV/trailer and 1 tent; Double sites are allowed 16 people, 2 vehicles, 2 RV/trailers and 2 tents; Group sites are allowed 32 people, 4 vehicles, 4 RV/trailers and 3 tents
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and a campfire circle with benches. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 317th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
Watch for a cancellation
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Tell me when the season opens
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One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time the agency has that season on sale.
Scanners that check every few minutes exist, and most of them charge. This one is free, it reads the same calendar, and it won’t always be first.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$16 a night, plus one $8 recreation.gov reservation fee for the booking. A weekend here means Friday and Saturday night, booked once. Optional charges (an extra vehicle, a second tent, a dump-station fee) are listed separately and aren’t in this total.
Who keeps the booking fee
The agency’s own policy text says the reservation fee and the cancellation processing fee are “retained by the reservation service contractor”, and that a campground concessionaire will decline to refund them because “they did not receive these fees”. Recreation.gov is run under contract by Booz Allen Hamilton. What share of your booking fee the contractor keeps isn’t published in any federal dataset we can read, so we print no number for it. Our reporting on the contract →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sitesAll 30 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 30 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 117 ft | 1,437 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 95 ft | 1,246 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 117 ft | 1,389 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 004 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 93 ft | 1,218 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 974 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 59 ft | 957 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 108 ft | 847 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 783 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 118 ft | 659 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 89 ft | 681 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 89 ft | 761 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 156 ft | 916 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 015 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 108 ft | 1,121 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 1,216 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 017 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 97 ft | 1,311 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 93 ft | 1,277 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 019 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 109 ft | 1,430 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 113 ft | 1,341 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 109 ft | 1,425 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 022 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 128 ft | 1,358 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 1,196 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 106 ft | 1,227 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 129 ft | 1,290 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 026 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 129 ft | 1,221 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 115 ft | 1,090 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 028 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 115 ft | 1,143 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 029 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 136 ft | 1,009 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 030 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 142 ft | 867 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 031 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 305 ft | 660 ft | $10–$16 |
| ASPEN (ASHLEY NFS) | 032 | group standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 305 ft | 949 ft | $30 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
HadesAshley National Forest · 2.9 mi
Iron MineAshley National Forest · 4.5 miMill Flat Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 4.8 miRock Spring Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 8.6 mi
Upper StillwaterAshley National Forest · 8.8 miFrom Duchesne, Utah: Take Highway 87 north to the junction with Highway 35. Turn west on Highway 35 towards Tabiona and travel about 28 miles to the campground in the North Fork Drainage.
From Highway 40, turn north on Highway 208 towards Tabiona, then proceed northwest through Hanna to the North Fork Drainage.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tabiona, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
A normal is the 1991-2020 average for the month, not a forecast: about half of all Julys are colder than the July line. The seven-day forecast above answers the other question.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Aspen (UT) is in Utah’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Kennedy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →