Deer Haven
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25–$50Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Deer Haven Campground is situated high on the western edge of the Colorado Plateau, close to Cedar City, Utah. Visitors enjoy hiking, biking and day-tripping to nearby Cedar Breaks National Monument. Keep reading
Recreation
The 34-mile Virgin River Rim Trail passes near the campground and is open to hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding. Deer Haven is just 11 miles from Cedar Breaks National Monument, with hiking trails, guided tours and breathtaking scenery. Just outside Cedar Breaks is the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness Area, where hikers will find 10 miles of trails and the Twisted Forest, a stand of ancient bristlecone pine.
Facilities
Five single sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Flush and vault toilets are provided. Drinking water is piped from a spring, but there is not an abundant supply. Campers area urged to conserve water in all activities. Two separate Group areas are available at the campground. Group site A for 80 people and Group site B for 60 OHV/ATV's are allowed in the campground for ingress and egress only. No joy riding is allowed in the campground.
Natural Features
Deer Haven is at an elevation of 8,900 feet. This peaceful and scenic campground is surrounded by a forest of aspen and pine trees. Summer wildflowers are abundant throughout the site.
Nearby Attractions
Deer Haven is close to many areas with excellent recreational opportunities. Navajo Lake and Duck Lake are both within 30 minutes, offering boating, canoeing and fishing. The Duck Creek/Markagunt ATV Trail System begins nearby.
What the agency tells you
Trailers and RV's NOT RECOMMENDED.
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; bring garbage bags, and pack out.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
No electric, water or sewer site hookups available.
OHV/ATV's including street legal are allowed for egress/ingress only (from your campsite to the road and back). Joy riding is not allowed.
A daily extra vehicle fee of $10.00 is charged and collected at the campground. Be prepared to pay onsite.
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.
Click here for more info about the Dixie National Forest
For campground inquiries, please call: (800) 342-2267. Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.CedarCity@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…first-served basis. Flush and vault toilets are provided. Drinking water is piped from a…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Flush and vault toilets are provided. Drinking water is piped from a spring, but there is not an…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 304th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 11 km away
- Peak color
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 · 15
What you actually pay
“A daily extra vehicle fee of $10.00 is charged and collected at the campground.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25–$50 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
18 sites · the site map
All 18 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 18 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. 16 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.
| DEER | GroupSite A | group standard area nonelectric | 28 ft | 3,598 ft | 199 ft | |
| Group | 11 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Group | 12D | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Group | 13 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Group | 14 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Group | 15 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Group | 16D | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Group | Group Site B | group standard area nonelectric | 28 ft | |||
| Primitive | 01 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 02 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 03 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 04 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 05 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 06 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 07 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 08 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 09 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 | ||
| Primitive | 10 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | $25–$50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cedar CanyonDixie National Forest · 1.3 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 5.0 mi
TE-AHDixie National Forest · 6.0 mi
Navajo Lake CampgroundDixie National Forest · 7.5 mi
Spruces Campground (Dixie NF)Dixie National Forest · 8.3 mi
Pyramid Ridge CampgroundCedar City Field Office · 11 miFrom Cedar City, Utah, take Highway 14 east for 16 miles. Turn south on Webster Flat Road and travel 3 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Cedar Highlands, 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
Deer Haven is in Utah’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Celeste Maloy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →