Canyon Rim
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $33From, per site
- Sites
- 1817 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Canyon Rim Campground is located in a grassy meadow high above Flaming Gorge Reservoir, along Red Canyon Road at an elevation of 7,400 feet. Visitors enjoy exploring the Red Canyon Rim Trail and canoeing and fishing at Greens Lake. Keep reading
Recreation
Nearby Greens Lake offers great canoeing and fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Red Canyon Lodge sits on the shore. Canoe and bike rentals, horseback riding, a restaurant and gift shop are available. Red Canyon Rim Trail, for hiking and biking, begins at the nearby visitor center, which offers interpretive displays and area information.
Facilities
This campground contains several family campsites with picnic tables and campfire rings; some sites also have grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground lies about 1 mile from beautiful cliffs overlooking Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Lodgepole and ponderosa pines dot the campground, providing limited shade. Summer wildflowers are plentiful. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Nearby Attractions
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
The single site fee covers the cost of 1 vehicle. Each single site's maximum capacity is 2 vehicles. There will be an extra vehicle fee for the second vehicle collected on site. 2 vehicles = 1 sleeping unit (trailer, pop-up, pickup camper, RV, etc) + 1 passenger vehicle or 2 passenger vehicles. There is not room for 2 sleeping units.
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
Drinking water is only available mid-late May through mid-September.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
Dump stations are located at Antelope Flat, Deer Run, Firefighters, and Lodgepole. A fee is charged.
Showers are located at Deer Run and Mustang Ridge for campers with proof of camping registration.
No electric, water or sewer hookups are available
This campground has first come, first served sites
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day. Cash or personal check.
Click here to learn more about the Ashley National Forest
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.DutchJohn@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 65 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings; some sites also have grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…also have grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground lies…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Meadow
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 125th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 17 of the 18 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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
Watch for the season to open
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 · 13
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $33 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 18 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. 18 of the 18 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CANYON RIM | 001 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 1,496 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 002 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 1,421 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 1,518 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 004 | standard nonelectric | 59 ft | 1,508 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 005 | standard nonelectric | 108 ft | 1,445 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 1,551 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 007 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 1,759 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 1,807 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 009 | standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 1,778 ft | $33 | |
| CANYON RIM | 010 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 438 ft | 1,419 ft | $33 |
| CANYON RIM | 011 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 304 ft | 1,353 ft | $33 |
| CANYON RIM | 012 | type not stated | 62 ft | 1,339 ft | $25 | |
| CANYON RIM | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 81 ft | 1,233 ft | $33 |
| CANYON RIM | 014 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 81 ft | 1,162 ft | $33 |
| CANYON RIM | 015 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 91 ft | 1,093 ft | $33 |
| CANYON RIM | 016 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 100 ft | 1,086 ft | $33 |
| CANYON RIM | 017 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | $33 | ||
| CANYON RIM | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $33 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Red Canyon (Ashley National Forest)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.7 mi
Red Canyon CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Greens LakeFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Skull CreekFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi
GreendaleFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.8 mi
Jarvies Family Boat InFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 5.0 miLocated on Forest Road 095/Red Canyon Road off Highway 44, approximately 40 miles north of Vernal, Utah.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Flaming Gorge, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 37°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 37°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Canyon Rim 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 →