Dripping Springs Campground (UT)
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- Right now
- OpenThe agency lists it open
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 26All of them booked ahead
- Season
- Year-roundOpen year-round
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Dripping Springs Campground is situated at an elevation of 6,000 feet in rolling high desert terrain near Flaming Gorge Reservoir. The campground is part of the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area in the Ashley National Forest. Campers frequent Dripping Springs for its close proximity to the Green River and Little Hole, both of which offer excellent rafting and world-class fishing opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Dripping Springs is surrounded by places to boat, raft, fish, hike and mountain bike. Little Hole Boat Launch and Day-Use Area on the Green River is nearby, offering great rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout fishing. The 7-mile Little Hole National Recreation Trail begins near the campground, meandering along the Green River from Flaming Gorge Dam. The trail can be done in shorter segments or as a whole. Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is known not only for its beautiful red cliffs but also for its world-class fishing, boating, hiking, camping, water skiing, jet skiing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and scuba diving. Click Here to learn more about the Ashley National Forest and the Flaming Gorge NRA.
Facilities
Dripping Springs is open year-round, and campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis outside of the reservation season. The campground offers several single-family sites with shelters, tables and campfire rings. Four group sites are available as well, with large shelters, tables, campfire rings and grills. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
Nearly every site within the campground offers scenic reservoir and mountain views. Russian olive trees and cottonwoods dot the rolling, sagebrush-covered landscape. Shade is limited, and temperatures range from warm days to cool nights.
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. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
Those desiring to use facilities in Flaming Gorge outside the campground will need to purchase a Recreational Use Pass from camp hosts, local businesses, or the Forest Service. A daily pass is $5, a seven day pass is $15, and an annual pass is $35. All passes are per vehicle.
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.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
This campground has first-come, first-served sites
This campground does not offer a dump station, however, a dump station can be found 8.1 miles away at Deer Run Campground
Drinking water is only available mid-late May through mid-September. No hookups available.
Dump stations are located at Antelope Flat, Der 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.
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 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
- 26 · 4 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 95 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 8
- Pets
- Allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…tables, campfire rings and grills. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…rings and grills. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features Nearly every site…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 124th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 15:46 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
2 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:43 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 12 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 15 are free on Thu, Oct 22. read 15:46 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 rate for this season, $24 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 2
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:43 UTC
- Green River Float-in CampsitesFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.3 mi · 10 of 34 site-nights open
- Red Springs CampgroundAshley National Forest · 26 mi · 1 of 1 site-night open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 26 mapped sitesAll 26 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. 22 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FAM | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 148 ft | 385 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 002 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 104 ft | 496 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 104 ft | 490 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 004 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 112 ft | 537 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 005 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 106 ft | 585 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 91 ft | 515 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 91 ft | 468 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 63 ft | 612 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 009 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 63 ft | 582 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 010 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 88 ft | 555 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 011 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 92 ft | 467 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 012 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 105 ft | 488 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 013 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 142 ft | 589 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 107 ft | 655 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 015 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 100 ft | 793 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 016 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 100 ft | 848 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 017 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 107 ft | 668 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 65 ft | 674 ft | $24 |
| FAM | 019 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 95 ft | 766 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 020 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 93 ft | 670 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 021 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 685 ft | $24 | |
| FAM | 022 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 148 ft | 523 ft | $24 | |
| Group Loop | GP1 | group standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 465 ft | 165 ft | ||
| Group Loop | GP2 | group standard nonelectric | 24 ft | yes | 219 ft | 298 ft | |
| Group Loop | GP3 | group standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 219 ft | 118 ft | ||
| Group Loop | GP4 | group standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 269 ft | 63 ft |
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.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Green River Float-in CampsitesFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.3 mi
Dutch John Draw Group CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.8 mi
Arch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.9 mi
Dutch John Draw CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 3.6 mi
Mustang Ridge CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.3 mi
Deer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.6 miFrom Vernal, Utah, take U.S. 191 north for 47 miles. Turn off U.S. 191 just north of Dutch John onto Forest Road 075. Travel east about 3 miles to the campground.
From Manila, Utah, take Highway 44 for 28 miles. Turn left on U.S. 191 and go north for about 11 miles. Turn off U.S. 191 just north of Dutch John onto Forest Road 075 and go east about 3 miles to the campground.
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 about 62 miles to Dutch John. Turn off U.S. 191 just north of Dutch John onto Forest Road 075 and go east about 3 miles to the campground.
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 month of the year: typical January night 13°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 more
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 · a letter you can send
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
Dripping Springs Campground (UT) 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyMike KennedyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn R. CurtisU.S. Senator · Utah
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike LeeU.S. Senator · Utah
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Dripping Springs Campground (UT), Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Dripping Springs Campground (UT), Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah, and couldn’t. All 26 sites at Dripping Springs Campground (UT) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 12 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dripping Springs Campground (UT) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dripping Springs Campground (UT). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Dripping Springs Campground (UT) (Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Dripping Springs Campground (UT), Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Dripping Springs Campground (UT), Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah, and couldn’t. All 26 sites at Dripping Springs Campground (UT) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 12 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dripping Springs Campground (UT) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dripping Springs Campground (UT). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Dripping Springs Campground (UT) (Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Dripping Springs Campground (UT), Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Dripping Springs Campground (UT), Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah, and couldn’t. All 26 sites at Dripping Springs Campground (UT) are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 12 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Dripping Springs Campground (UT) keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Dripping Springs Campground (UT). I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Dripping Springs Campground (UT) (Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah) via campanac.com