U.S. Forest Service · Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · UT
Dutch John Draw Group Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
Photos · U.S. Forest Service
6,250 ftElevation
1,396 ftWater · an unnamed pond
31.2 miNE of Maeser, UT
0%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 180th darkest of 458 in UT
Open May 1 through September 30Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Dutch John Draw Campground is located within a quiet cove on Flaming Gorge Reservoir. It is located on a sloping hillside forested with pinyon pines, which offer little shade. The entire site offers scenic views of the water. Campers enjoy easy access to boating, water skiing, fishing and swimming. A small boat dock is located on-site and is designated specifically for those camping at Dutch John Draw. A short trail leads to it from the campground, providing easy access to boating, water skiing, canoeing, fishing and swimming on the reservoir. A boat ramp is available less than 2 miles away at Mustang Ridge. Keep reading
Trash collection is provided. Nearby Activities 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.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Source: Stated in the agency description
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
See www.recreation.gov for current rate.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Dutch John Draw CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.8 mi
Arch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi
Mustang Ridge CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.6 mi
Deer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.4 mi
Cedar Springs CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.6 mi
Dripping Springs Campground (UT)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.8 mi
Dutch John Draw CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.8 miArch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.3 miMustang Ridge CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.6 miDeer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.4 miCedar Springs CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.6 miDripping Springs Campground (UT)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.8 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Tonight36°Mostly Clear
Saturday64°Sunny
Saturday Night37°Mostly Clear
Sunday62°Mostly Sunny
NWS forecast for Dutch John, UT
Source: National Weather Service, GJT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical May night 38°F, day 67°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 38°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
100°32°0°
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.
Measured at: FLAMING GORGE, UT (USC00422864), 0.1 miles away and at about the same elevation
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Dutch John Draw Group 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: The agency lists it out of season. The season it publishes is the bar below.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: inside Dutch John, UT. Straight line.