Cedar Springs Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $42–$82Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 23All of them booked ahead
- Season
- April 1 – September 30Open April 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Cedar Springs Campground is located in the beautiful Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area on the Ashley National Forest at an elevation of 6,100 feet. Flaming Gorge Reservoir and Cedar Springs Marina are less than a mile from the campground. Exciting recreational activities abound, including boating, water skiing and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
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. Cedar Springs Marina is adjacent. Bear Canyon Trail, an easy 3-mile round-trip trail for hiking and mountain biking, begins nearby and leads to views of Red Canyon and Flaming Gorge.
Facilities
This small campground contains single and double-family sites with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water, a dump station and fish cleaning station are provided. Showers are available a half-mile away at Deer Run Campground. For large group camping, the nearby Arch Dam, Greendale, Dripping Springs, Antelope Flat and Dutch John Draw Campgrounds have several group sites available.
Natural Features
Cedar Springs is situated among juniper, pinyon pine and sagebrush on a hillside above Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Shade is limited but the vegetation provides good privacy between sites, many of which have scenic views of the reservoir below. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Nearby Attractions
Flaming Gorge Dam offers guided tours of the working hydroelectric plant and the dam, and 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.
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.
This area is known for high winds and sudden thunderstorms.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
This campground has first come, first served sites.
Drinking water is only available mid-late May through mid-September. No hookups available.
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
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.
Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day. Cash or personal check.
Click here for more info about the Ashley National Forest.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.DutchJohn@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 23
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 62 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water, a dump station and fish cleaning…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water, a dump station and fish cleaning station are…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Night sky · 162nd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
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
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 · 14
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 rates for this season, $42–$82 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
24 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 21 mapped sitesAll 24 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 21 of the 24 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. 23 of the 24 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 143 ft | 243 ft | 318 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 143 ft | 366 ft | 214 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 003 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 129 ft | 161 ft | 427 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 129 ft | 290 ft | 316 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 173 ft | 333 ft | 284 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 006 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 165 ft | 319 ft | 111 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 162 ft | 190 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 95 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 162 ft | 232 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 213 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 184 ft | 204 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 366 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 010 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 117 ft | 291 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 149 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 107 ft | 359 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 143 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 012 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 441 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 97 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 134 ft | 409 ftFlaming Gorge Reservoir | 226 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 607 ft | 89 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 579 ft | 119 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 519 ft | 163 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 109 ft | 479 ft | 227 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 114 ft | 595 ft | 199 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 019 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 117 ft | 518 ft | 309 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 020 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 514 ft | 112 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 021 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 107 ft | 439 ft | 154 ft | $42–$82 |
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 022 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | $42–$82 | |||
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | 023 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $42–$82 | |||
| CEDAR SPRINGS CAMPGROUND | HOST SITE | host pad | 35 ft | $42–$82 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Deer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.4 mi
Firefighters CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Mustang Ridge CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
GreendaleFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.9 mi
Arch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.0 mi
Jarvies Family Boat InFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.0 miFrom Vernal, Utah, take U.S. 191 north 42 miles. Turn north onto Forest Road 183 and travel approximately 2 miles to the campground, adjacent to Cedar Springs Marina.
From Manila, Utah, take Highway 44 for 28 miles. Turn left on U.S. 191 and go north for about 4 miles. Turn north onto Forest Road 183 and travel approximately 2 miles to the campground, adjacent to Cedar Springs Marina.
From Rock Springs, Wyoming, take I-80 west toward Green River about 6 miles to the junction with U.S. 191/Flaming Gorge Road. Take U.S. 191 south for 67 miles, passing through Dutch John. Turn north onto Forest Road 183 and travel approximately 2 miles to the campground, adjacent to Cedar Springs Marina.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Dutch John, UT
Typical weather
Typical April night 30°F, day 57°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical April night 30°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 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
Cedar Springs Campground 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 →