Deer Run Campground
- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $42–$82Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
- Season
- April 1 – October 31Open April 1 through October 31
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Deer Run Campground is located in the beautiful Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area on the Ashley National Forest at an elevation of 6,200 feet. Flaming Gorge Reservoir is less than a mile below 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 family campsites equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. A dump station and marina are located in the immediate area at Cedar Springs. For larger groups, the nearby Arch Dam, Greendale, Dripping Springs, Antelope Flat and Dutch John Draw Campgrounds have several group sites available.
Natural Features
Deer Run is situated among juniper, pinyon pine and sagebrush above Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Shade is limited and the reservoir is not visible from the campground. A resident deer herd gives this site its name. 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 · 11
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.
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 Ashley National Forest.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Dump Station: $10.00
Shower: $5.00 (Non-Camper use)
Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day. Cash or personal check.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.DutchJohn@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Paved pads
- 17 of 18
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. A dump…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings. Flush toilets, showers and drinking water are provided. A dump station and marina are located…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- 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 · 177th 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 · 15
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
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 18 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 18 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. 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.
| DEER | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 144 ft | 1,794 ft | 259 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 002 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 144 ft | 1,655 ft | 213 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 003 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 153 ft | 1,678 ft | 65 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 004 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 170 ft | 1,881 ft | 165 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 139 ft | 1,925 ft | 286 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 1,791 ft | 184 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 1,756 ft | 277 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 008 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | yes | 115 ft | 1,859 ft | 210 ft | $42–$82 |
| DEER | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 126 ft | 1,894 ft | 88 ft | $42–$82 |
| DEER | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 184 ft | 1,926 ft | 202 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 178 ft | 1,750 ft | 68 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 012 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 124 ft | 1,572 ft | 171 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 013 | rv nonelectric | 35 ft | 101 ft | 1,567 ft | 257 ft | $82 | |
| DEER | 014 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 101 ft | 1,469 ft | 308 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 015 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 92 ft | 1,412 ft | 323 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 016 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 92 ft | 1,474 ft | 294 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 122 ft | 1,588 ft | 245 ft | $42–$82 | |
| DEER | 018 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 135 ft | 1,719 ft | 174 ft | $42–$82 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Cedar Springs 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
Arch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.7 mi
GreendaleFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.9 mi
Dutch John Draw CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.1 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 October night 32°F, day 62°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
Deer Run 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 →