Hades
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hades Campground is nestled in the scenic North Fork Drainage off Highway 35, about 17 miles from Tabiona, Utah. The North Fork Drainage lies on the southern slope of the beautiful Uinta Mountains in northeastern Utah. Visitors enjoy fly-fishing and exploring the many local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for brook, brown and rainbow trout is a popular activity on the North Fork Duchesne. Hiking, mountain biking, OHV and horseback riding trails are in the area.
Facilities
The campground contains single and double-family sites with picnic tables and campfire rings. Some sites overlook the river. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in forest of aspen, subalpine fir, lodgepole pine and spruce just above the North Fork Duchesne River at an elevation of 7,400 feet. The campground affords beautiful scenic views of the surrounding canyon and summer wildflowers are plentiful.
Nearby Attractions
The North Fork Drainage provides access to the Granddaddy Lake region of the High Uintas via Grandview Trail. Numerous sparkling lakes provide great backcountry fishing. Backpacking, hiking and horseback riding are very popular in this breathtaking area.
What the agency tells you
Due to a sanitation system failure, drinking water is not available until further notice
Single sites are allowed 1 vehicle, 1 RV/trailer, 1 tent, 8 people; double sites are allowed 2 vehicles, 2 RV/trailers, 2 tents, 16 people
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…rings. Some sites overlook the river. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 323rd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
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
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$16 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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 14 of the 14 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| HADES | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 255 ft | 394 ft | 54 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 81 ft | 333 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 128 ft | 350 ftDuchesne River | 209 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 203 ft | 55 ftDuchesne River | 148 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 274 ftDuchesne River | 240 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 98 ft | 193 ftDuchesne River | 231 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 136 ft | 154 ftDuchesne River | 384 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 124 ft | 91 ftDuchesne River | 313 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 18 ft | 199 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 32 ft | 188 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 52 ft | 51 ft | 186 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 72 ft | 22 ft | 246 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 76 ft | 101 ft | 257 ft | $10–$16 |
| HADES | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 111 ft | 170 ft | 308 ft | $10–$16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Iron MineAshley National Forest · 1.6 miMill Flat Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 1.9 mi
Aspen (UT)Ashley National Forest · 2.9 miAspen CampgroundAshley National Forest · 3.0 mi
Cobblerest CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 6.8 mi
Shady Dell CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 8.5 miFrom Duchesne, Utah: Take Highway 27 north to the junction with Highway 35. Turn west on Highway 35 towards Tabiona. Travel about 28 miles to the campground in the North Fork Drainage.
From Highway 40, turn north on Highway 208 to Tabiona, then proceed northwest through Hanna to the North Fork Drainage.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tabiona, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 36°F, day 65°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 36°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
Hades 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 →