Green River Campground
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- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 8127 of them walk-up
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Green River Campground is located along the banks of the Green River at an elevation of 4,750 feet (1448 m). The highly eroded Split Mountain is visible to the north. The campground is about five miles (8 km) from the famous Quarry Exhibit Hall, where you can see 149 million year old dinosaur bones still encased in the rock. A short distance from the campground is the Split Mountain Boat Ramp where river rafters come off the Green River after trips through Dinosaur National Monument's canyons. Keep reading
Recreation
Dinosaur National Monument covers over 210,000 acres (84984 ha). Visitor Centers. The monument features two visitor centers - one in Colorado and one in Utah. Quarry Exhibit Hall. You can see over 1,500 dinosaur fossils still in the rock inside the Quarry Exhibit Hall (Jensen, Utah). History & Culture. Numerous cultural sites reveal stories of the people who lived here before and include Fremont petroglyphs, homestead cabins and former ranches. Hiking trails allow in-depth exploration. Hiking. There are miles of trails for hiking and cross-country travel. River Rafting & Boating. Whitewater rafting, both commercial and private, is popular on the Green and Yampa Rivers. The Green River multi-day rafting trips start at Gates of Lodore. and the run to Echo Park is 19 miles. The Yampa River multi-day rafting trips begin at Deerlodge Park. The Yampa rushes downstream 44-miles (71 km) to join the Green River at Echo Park. Boaters continue downstream on the Green River to the take-out at the Split Mountain boat ramp. The Yampa is the largest free-flowing tributary within the Colorado River system. As such, it has a shorter season marked by fluctuations in water level resulting from snow received in the winter. It is characterized by famous rapids such as Teepee, Big Joe and Warm Springs. Raft trips must be arranged in advance. For more information, visit Dinosaur's Commercial Guided River Trips page. Private River Trips require a permit. Scenic Drives. Several roads provide access to key destinations and scenic sites. Scenic drives allow the windshield visitor to see spectacular geology.
Facilities
Green River Campground has 80 campsites suitable for tents or RVs. Each site has a picnic table and a fire pit. Drinking water and flush toilets are available. RVs can not fill their potable water tanks at the campground. There are no showers or water/electrical hook-ups/dump stations for recreational vehicles.
Natural Features
The campground is set on a bench along the Green River and is dotted by Fremont cottonwood trees and sagebrush. Many campsites offer views of Split Mountain. Some sites have shade while others are very sunny.
Nearby Attractions
The Quarry Exhibit Hall allows visitors to see approximately 1,500 dinosaur fossils exposed in the rock. Besides the monument, nearby Utah State Parks, the Ashley National Forest, Flaming Gorge National Recreational Area and Bureau of Land Management sites provide additional recreational opportunities.
Charges & Cancellations
Green River Campground is an unstaffed campground. Please manage any changes to your reservation through Recreation.gov . Cancellations: All camping reservation cancellations will incur a $10 cancellation fee. Camping reservations cancelled the day before or the day of the scheduled arrival date will forfeit the first night's use fee in addition to a $10 cancellation fee. No-Shows: If you do not arrive for your reservation, you will forfeit the full reservation amount. Early Departures: If you leave the campground before your scheduled departure date, you must update your reservation on Recreation.gov to be considered for a refund for any unused nights. You must leave your campsite by the established checkout time. Refunds will not be issued for unused nights if the reservation is not updated.
What the agency tells you
This is Green River Campground which is located in the Dinosaur National Monument in Jensen, Utah. Please ensure this is the correct campground before you book.
Dinosaur National Monument charges an entrance fee in addition to the fees for camping (campground reservations do not cover entrance fees). You may pay the entrance fee upon arrival at the monument's entrance station or visitor center or purchase in advance. The park also honors valid Federal interagency passes (annual, senior, access, 4th grade, Golden Age, etc.). Visit the park's Fees & Passes web page for more information.
CAUTION: Dinosaur National Monument is home to black bears along with many other animals. Proper food storage is required in campgrounds.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
Summers are hot with daytime high temperatures often exceeding 100°F (38°C)
Season opening and closing dates are approximate. Depending on weather conditions, the Green River Campground may open later, or close earlier, than listed.
All equipment must fit on the site pad. Vehicles may park in developed areas only. Each site is limited to 8 people and 2 vehicles (only 1 can be an RV. RVs include motor homes, trailers, pop-up campers or trucks with camper tops). Extra parking is available near the campfire circle if needed.
There are no electrical hookups at the Green River Campground. Generator use is prohibited from 9 p.m. to 7 a.m.
There are no water hookups or dump stations. RVs can not fill their potable water tanks at the campground.
Don't Move Firewood: Help protect our forests! Prevent the spread of tree-killing pests by obtaining firewood at or near your destination and burning it on-site. Firewood is available for sale in the Green River Campground near the entrance kiosk.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 81
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets - seasonal
- Showers
- None at this campground
- “There are no showers or water/electrical hook-ups/dump stations for recreational vehicles.”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 30 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Biking
- Evening Programs
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Wildlife viewing
- Tree cover
- 0%
- Night sky · 256th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:33 UTC
recreation.gov lists 80 of the 81 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
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What you actually pay
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.
“Please manage any changes to your reservation through Recreation.gov. - Cancellations: All camping reservation cancellations will incur a $10 cancellation fee. Camping reservations cancelled the day before or the day of the scheduled arrival date will forfeit the first night's use fee in addition to a $10 cancellati…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:33 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
81 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 80 mapped sitesAll 81 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. 80 of the 81 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| A | 1 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 67 ft | 176 ft | $24 | |
| A | 10 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 104 ft | 140 ft | $24 | |
| A | 11 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 99 ft | 227 ft | $24 | |
| A | 12 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 78 ft | 240 ft | $24 | |
| A | 13 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 303 ft | $24 | ||
| A | 14 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 63 ft | 260 ft | $24 | |
| A | 15 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 61 ft | 321 ft | $24 | |
| A | 16 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 61 ft | 324 ft | $24 | |
| A | 17 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 44 ft | 349 ft | $24 | |
| A | 18 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 69 ft | 281 ft | $24 | |
| A | 19 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 44 ft | 378 ft | $24 | |
| A | 2 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 50 ft | 184 ft | $24 | |
| A | 20 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 47 ft | 292 ft | $24 | |
| A | 21 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 309 ft | $24 | ||
| A | 3 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 71 ft | 112 ft | $24 | |
| A | 4 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 50 ft | 159 ft | $24 | |
| A | 5 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 77 ft | 85 ft | $24 | |
| A | 6 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 103 ft | 157 ft | $24 | |
| A | 7 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 43 ft | 142 ft | $24 | |
| A | 8 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 43 ft | 99 ft | $24 | |
| A | 9 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 66 ft | 100 ft | $24 | |
| B | 23 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 78 ft | 217 ft | $24 | |
| B | 24 | standard nonelectric | 75 ft | 69 ft | 202 ft | $24 | |
| B | 25 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 90 ft | 117 ft | $24 | |
| B | 26 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 69 ft | 194 ft | $24 | |
| B | 27 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 67 ft | 143 ft | $24 | |
| B | 28 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 60 ft | 205 ft | $24 | |
| B | 29 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 60 ft | 236 ft | $24 | |
| B | 30 | standard nonelectric | 69 ft | 265 ft | $24 | ||
| B | 31 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 283 ft | $24 | |
| B | 32 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 75 ft | 364 ft | $24 | |
| B | 33 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 75 ft | 302 ft | $24 | |
| B | 34 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 77 ft | 289 ft | $24 | |
| B | 35 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 364 ft | $24 | ||
| B | 36 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 281 ft | $24 | |
| B | 37 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 352 ft | $24 | |
| B | 39 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 77 ft | 328 ft | $24 | |
| B | 41 | standard nonelectric | yes | 119 ft | 208 ft | $24 | |
| B | 42 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 90 ft | 345 ft | $24 | |
| B | 43 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 63 ft | 395 ft | $24 | |
| B | 44 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 82 ft | 464 ft | $24 | |
| B | 45 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 76 ft | 427 ft | $24 | |
| B | 46 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 76 ft | 452 ft | $24 | |
| B | 47 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 86 ft | 534 ft | $24 | |
| B | 48 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 580 ft | $24 | |
| B | 49 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 494 ft | $24 | |
| B | 50 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 66 ft | 477 ft | $24 | |
| B | 51 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 69 ft | 446 ft | $24 | |
| B | 52 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 69 ft | 497 ft | $24 | |
| B | 53 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 64 ft | 388 ft | $24 | |
| B | 54 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 64 ft | 440 ft | $24 | |
| B | 55 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 98 ft | 308 ft | $24 | |
| C | 56 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 52 ft | 269 ft | $24 | |
| C | 57 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 52 ft | 320 ft | $24 | |
| C | 58 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 63 ft | 350 ft | $24 | |
| C | 59 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 65 ft | 355 ft | $24 | |
| C | 60 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 67 ft | 294 ft | $24 | |
| C | 61 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 67 ft | 341 ft | $24 | |
| C | 62 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 67 ft | 277 ft | $24 | |
| C | 63 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | 64 ft | 261 ft | $24 | |
| C | 64 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 64 ft | 297 ft | $24 | |
| C | 65 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 55 ft | 210 ft | $24 | |
| C | 66 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 54 ft | 268 ft | $24 | |
| C | 67 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 54 ft | 256 ft | $24 | |
| C | 68 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 55 ft | 186 ft | $24 | |
| C | 69 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 79 ft | 218 ft | $24 | |
| C | 70 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 62 ft | 102 ft | $24 | |
| C | 71 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 62 ft | 125 ft | $24 | |
| C | 72 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 61 ft | 87 ft | $24 | |
| C | 73 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 57 ft | 169 ft | $24 | |
| C | 74 | standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 57 ft | 114 ft | $24 | |
| C | 75 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 61 ft | 114 ft | $24 | |
| C | 76 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 61 ft | 174 ft | $24 | |
| C | 77 | standard nonelectric | 65 ft | 75 ft | 124 ft | $24 | |
| C | 78 | standard nonelectric | 27 ft | 66 ft | 196 ft | $24 | |
| C | 79 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 57 ft | 220 ft | $24 | |
| C | 80 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 67 ft | 160 ft | $24 | |
| C | 81 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 59 ft | 228 ft | $24 | |
| C | 82 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 59 ft | 168 ft | $24 | |
| C | 83 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 169 ft | $24 | |
| Green River | Scan and Pay GR CG | type not stated | 39 ft |
25 of 81 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Split Mountain Group CampgroundDinosaur National Monument · 1.3 mi
Rainbow Park CampgroundDinosaur National Monument · 6.3 miCottonwood River CampJohn Wesley Powell National Conservation Area · 9.3 mi
Big Pine I River Camp9.5 mi
Echo Park CampgroundDinosaur National Monument · 15 miParadise Park Campground16 miGreen River Campground is located approximately 12 miles (19 km) north of US Highway 40. Take Utah State Route 149 from Jensen, Utah.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Jensen, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 35°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 8°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
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Green River 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 →