Firefighters Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $34From, per site
- Sites
- 60All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Firefighters Campground is just 3 miles from beautiful Flaming Gorge Reservoir, within the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area on the Ashley National Forest. The campground serves as a memorial to three firefighters who lost their lives in the 1977 Cart Creek Fire. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing, swimming and hiking. Keep reading
Recreation
Bear Canyon Trail begins across the road from the campground, offering hiking and biking opportunities. This easy 3-mile round-trip trail leads to views of Red Canyon and Flaming Gorge. Beautiful Flaming Gorge Reservoir is just 3 miles from the campground. The reservoir is known for its world-class fishing for lake, brown and rainbow trout. Boating, water skiing, jet skiing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and scuba diving are also popular activities.
Facilities
The campground offers several family sites, six of which are accessible. Each site is equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring; some sites have grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are available. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are paved. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Public showers are available 2.5 miles away at Deer Run Campground. Bootleg Amphitheater, with a screen support and bleacher seating for 120 people, is located just across the road. Educational programs are offered throughout the summer season. A scenic overlook dedicated to the firefighters is located on-site.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on a gently-sloping hillside dotted with shady ponderosa pines and juniper, at an elevation of 6,900 feet.
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. 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.
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 campground has first come, first served sites. There is no guarantee of availability.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
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.
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.
Dump Station: $10.00
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
- 60
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 59 of 60
- Accessible sites
- 6
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…campfire ring; some sites have grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are available.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…some sites have grills. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are available. Roads and parking…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Historic site
- Swimming
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 155th 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 · 13
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, $34 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
60 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 60 mapped sitesAll 60 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. 60 of the 60 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Loop A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 185 ft | 1,670 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 147 ft | 1,708 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 145 ft | 1,562 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 119 ft | 1,486 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 119 ft | 1,367 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 136 ft | 1,418 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 110 ft | 1,333 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 159 ft | 1,248 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 163 ft | 1,142 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 139 ft | 1,254 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 139 ft | 1,121 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 146 ft | 1,222 ft | $34 |
| Loop A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 139 ft | 1,082 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 109 ft | 1,069 ft | $34 |
| Loop A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 109 ft | 1,174 ft | $34 |
| Loop A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 90 ft | 1,099 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 87 ft | 1,186 ft | $34 |
| Loop A | 018 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 63 ft | 1,112 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 1,152 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 87 ft | 1,229 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 021 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 76 ft | 1,210 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 96 ft | 1,302 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 98 ft | 1,360 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 98 ft | 1,442 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 119 ft | 1,519 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 026 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 125 ft | 1,411 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 027 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 119 ft | 1,445 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 028 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 1,537 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 029 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 1,440 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 111 ft | 1,555 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 031 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 118 ft | 1,445 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 032 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 110 ft | 1,440 ft | $34 | |
| Loop A | 033 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 110 ft | 1,547 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 068 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 2,065 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 069 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 2,018 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 070 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 114 ft | 1,930 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 071 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 76 ft | 1,987 ft | $34 |
| Loop C | 072 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 91 ft | 1,920 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 073 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 76 ft | 2,012 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 074 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 86 ft | 2,121 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 075 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 86 ft | 2,079 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 076 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 87 ft | 2,201 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 077 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 102 ft | 2,185 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 078 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 102 ft | 2,283 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 079 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 2,417 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 080 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 111 ft | 2,464 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 081 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 111 ft | 2,556 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 082 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 115 ft | 2,633 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 083 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 2,479 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 084 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 112 ft | 2,578 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 085 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 2,541 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 086 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 124 ft | 2,418 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 087 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 67 ft | 2,523 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 088 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 2,401 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 089 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 2,486 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 090 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 71 ft | 2,446 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 091 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 83 ft | 2,366 ft | $34 |
| Loop C | 092 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 83 ft | 2,314 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 093 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 73 ft | 2,237 ft | $34 | |
| Loop C | 094 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 73 ft | 2,219 ft | $34 |
25 of 60 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
GreendaleFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.8 mi
Cedar Springs CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Deer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.1 mi
Mustang Ridge CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.4 mi
Arch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.6 mi
Jarvies Family Boat InFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.8 miFrom Vernal, Utah, take U.S. 191 north about 41 miles.
From Manila, Utah, take Highway 44 for 28 miles. Turn left on U.S. 191 and travel approximately 3 miles north.
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 71 miles, passing through Dutch John.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Flaming Gorge, UT
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.
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
Firefighters 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 →