Hideout Canyon Boat-In Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hideout Canyon Boat-In Campground is located on beautiful Flaming Gorge Reservoir, 2 miles from the nearest road. This popular campground, which gets its name from a hiding spot used by Butch Cassidy and his gang, is only accessible to visitors who boat or hike-in to the location. Keep reading
Recreation
Boating, water skiing, canoeing, fishing and swimming are popular activities right out your front door. Most patrons boat to the campground, using the Sheep Creek Bay Boat Ramp. Hikers should use the Hideout/Carter Creek Trailhead on Dowd Mountain off Forest Road 094.
Facilities
The campground contains 18 single-family sites. Each site has a cabana, picnic table and campfire ring. Flush toilets and water hydrants are provided. A vault toilet is available for off-season use. The gravel trails from the docks to the campsites are steep and change each year depending on water fluctuations. Lucerne Valley Marina is a few miles away by boat, where gas, boat slips, fishing licenses, bait and groceries are available at the small general store.
Natural Features
Hideout Canyon is surrounded by scenic cliffs at an elevation of 6,040 feet. The campground is forested with pinyon pine and juniper, which offer only limited shade. Most sites afford partial views of the reservoir.
Nearby Attractions
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.
Campground is accessed by boat or hiking-in only
Reservations are strongly recommended
Everything else this campground posts · 7
Boats must not exceed 36 feet in length
Please note that there is only one boat allowed per slip.
The path from the boat dock to the campground does not support accessibility standards; Some visitors may require assistance
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.
Click here to learn more about the Ashley National Forest
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.SummitSprings@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18 · 18 tent-only
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…cabana, picnic table and campfire ring. Flush toilets and water hydrants are provided. A vault toilet is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire ring. Flush toilets and water hydrants are provided. A vault toilet is available for…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Store
- Nearby
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek, Coast
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Swimming
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.
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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 · 10
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
18 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 18 sites
| HIDE | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 150 ft |
| HIDE | 002 | tent only nonelectric | 76 ft | 75 ft |
| HIDE | 003 | tent only nonelectric | 52 ft | 118 ft |
| HIDE | 004 | tent only nonelectric | 54 ft | 73 ft |
| HIDE | 005 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 135 ft |
| HIDE | 006 | tent only nonelectric | 46 ft | 111 ft |
| HIDE | 007 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 38 ft |
| HIDE | 008 | tent only nonelectric | 43 ft | 67 ft |
| HIDE | 009 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | under 10 ft |
| HIDE | 010 | tent only nonelectric | 22 ft | under 10 ft |
| HIDE | 011 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | under 10 ft |
| HIDE | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 22 ft | under 10 ft |
| HIDE | 013 | tent only nonelectric | 45 ft | under 10 ft |
| HIDE | 014 | tent only nonelectric | 82 ft | 29 ft |
| HIDE | 015 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | under 10 ft |
| HIDE | 016 | tent only nonelectric | 48 ft | 30 ft |
| HIDE | 017 | tent only nonelectric | 34 ft | 38 ft |
| HIDE | 018 | tent only nonelectric | 56 ft | 83 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Sheep Creek Bay CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.5 miKingfisher Island Boat-in CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi
Willows CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 3.6 mi
Navajo CliffsFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.2 mi
Carmel CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.6 mi
Red Canyon CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.8 miFrom Manila, Utah: Take State Route 44 southeast for 7 miles. Turn northeast onto Forest Road 092, and continue to Sheep Creek Bay Boat Ramp. Once on the water, travel 2 miles southeast to reach the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manila, 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
Hideout Canyon Boat-In 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 →