Browne Lake Group Sites
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 4All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Browne Lake Group Sites are located next to their namesake lake in a high mountain meadow, at an elevation of 8,200 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing and exploring miles of hiking and ATV trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for rainbows, brook trout and kokanee salmon is a popular activity at Browne Lake, as is canoeing and other non-motorized boating. Several ATV and hiking trails are in the immediate area: Leidy Peak Trailhead is within the campground. Sheep Creek Lake, with cutthroat and brook trout fishing, is nearby.
Facilities
The campground consists of four reservable, accessible group sites that accommodate up to 40 people each. Sites contain picnic tables and campfire circles. Single-family sites are available only a first come, first served basis. Vault toilets are provided. Roads and parking spurs are dirt. The campground is accessed via a well-maintained dirt road.
Natural Features
The campground is partially shaded by pines and aspens. Summer wildflowers dot the surrounding grassy meadows. The lake is visible from most of the sites and a short trail leads to its shore.
Nearby Attractions
Numerous scenic driving routes on maintained dirt roads crisscross the area around Browne Lake, providing miles of trails for ATVs, hikers and mountain bikers. Trails lead to reservoirs and lakes, overlooks, forests, meadows and historic sites. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is known not only for its beautiful red cliffs, but also for its world-class fishing for lake, brown and rainbow trout. Boating, water skiing, jet skiing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and scuba diving are popular activities on the reservoir. Flaming Gorge Dam offers guided tours of the working hydroelectric plant and the dam itself; the adjacent visitor center contains area history exhibits. The Green River below the dam provides spectacular rafting opportunities. A trip down the river offers unique geology, outlaw history and Native American rock art.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
Reservations can be made for group sites only; all single sites are available on a first come, first served basis
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here to learn more about the Ashley National Forest
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.SummitSprings@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 4 · 4 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 4
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…only a first come, first served basis. Vault toilets are provided. Roads and parking spurs are dirt. The…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
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
Full? Watch it.
One email when a night opens, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We read recreation.gov once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time a site in your window is free for the nights you asked for.
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.
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 · 12
What you actually pay
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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 4 mapped sitesAll 4 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 4 of the 4 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 4 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| BROWNE LAKE GROUP SITES | 001 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 281 ft | 281 ftWeyman Creek | 160 ft | $99 |
| BROWNE LAKE GROUP SITES | 002 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 112 ft | 298 ftWeyman Creek | 141 ft | $99 |
| BROWNE LAKE GROUP SITES | 003 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 112 ft | 327 ftWeyman Creek | 217 ft | $99 |
| BROWNE LAKE GROUP SITES | 004 | group standard nonelectric | yes | 529 ft | 209 ftWeyman Creek | 122 ft | $99 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Browne Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 0.5 miSheep Creek Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 2.8 mi
Summit Springs Guard StationAshley National Forest · 3.5 mi
Red Springs CampgroundAshley National Forest · 3.6 mi
Rock Creek Guard StationAshley National Forest · 3.6 mi
Deep Creek CampgroundAshley National Forest · 4.2 miFrom the Wyoming: Take Highway 43, turn right at the McKinnon Junction up through Sols Canyon. Turn left onto Sheep Creek Road; follow signs to Browne Lake.
From Vernal, Utah: Take Highway 191, which turns into Highway 44. Shortly past the Dowd Mountain overlook, turn left onto the pavement on the scenic loop road. Follow that road until you reach Forest Road 096; turn left and follow the dirt road to campground. Signs for Browne Lake are posted throughout the scenic loop.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manila, UT
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
Browne Lake Group Sites 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 →