Greens Lake
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading
- Sites
- 20All of them booked ahead
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Greens Lake Campground is located next to its scenic namesake along Red Canyon Road at an elevation of 7,400 feet. Visitors enjoy canoeing and fishing on the lake and exploring the Red Canyon Rim Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
Greens Lake is a small lake for non-motorized watercraft only. It offers great canoeing and fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Red Canyon Lodge sits directly across the lake. Canoe and bike rentals, horseback riding, a restaurant and gift shop are available. Red Canyon Rim Trail, for hiking and biking, begins at the nearby visitor center, which offers interpretive displays and area information.
Facilities
The campground offers one group site that can accommodate up to 40 people. Several single family sites are available as well, each with a picnic table and campfire ring. Some sites have lake views and access. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.
Natural Features
The campground lies on the shore of Greens Lake, about 1 mile from beautiful cliffs overlooking Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Lodgepole and ponderosa pines and aspens dot the campground, providing partial shade. Summer wildflowers are plentiful. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Nearby Attractions
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. Flaming Gorge Dam offers guided tours of the working hydroelectric plant and the dam itself; 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.
No electric, water or sewer hookups are available
Everything else this campground posts · 9
This campground has first come, first served sites. There is no guarantee this type of site will be available.
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.
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.
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Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.DutchJohn@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 20 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 20
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Some sites have lake views and access. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…lake views and access. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features The campground lies…”
- 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
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 132nd 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
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
21 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 20 mapped sitesAll 21 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 21 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| GREENS LAKE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 211 ft | 617 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 74 ft | 414 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 18 ft | 74 ft | 418 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 92 ft | 288 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 92 ft | 347 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 119 ft | 219 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 53 ft | 158 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 53 ft | 142 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 251 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 69 ft | 256 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 70 ft | 414 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 70 ft | 392 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 105 ft | 511 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 105 ft | 614 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 116 ft | 654 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 158 ft | 714 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 017 | standard nonelectric | 26 ft | 83 ft | 503 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 018 | standard nonelectric | 15 ft | 78 ft | 442 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 379 ft | |
| GREENS LAKE | GROUP | group standard nonelectric | 128 ft | 596 ft | $114 | |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | $25 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Skull CreekFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Canyon RimFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi
Red Canyon (Ashley National Forest)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.7 mi
Red Canyon CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi
GreendaleFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.1 mi
Firefighters CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.5 miLocated on Forest Road 095/Red Canyon Road off Highway 44, approximately 40 miles north of Vernal, Utah.
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 September night 44°F, day 71°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 44°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
Greens Lake 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 →