Iron Mine
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2616 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Iron Mine Campground in nestled in the scenic North Fork Drainage off Highway 35, about 18 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 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 sites, and one group site that can accommodate up to 50 people. Sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in an aspen forest dotted with subalpine fir, lodgepole pine and spruce near 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.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see NRRS Reservation Policy.
What the agency tells you
Single sites are allowed 8 people, 1 vehicle, 1 RV/trailer and 1 tent; Double sites are allowed 16 people, 2 vehicles, 2 RV/trailers and 2 tents; Group sites are allowed 32 people, 4 vehicles, 4 RV/trailers and 3 tents
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest
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
- 26 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire rings. Vault toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 321st darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 16 of the 26 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 14
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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
26 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 16 mapped sitesAll 26 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. 26 of the 26 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| IRON MINE | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 32 ft | 666 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 32 ft | 695 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 003 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 35 ft | 663 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 10 ft | 736 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 10 ft | 729 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 33 ft | 756 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 007 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 35 ft | 778 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 008 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | 700 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 009 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 35 ft | 785 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 42 ft | 787 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 48 ft | 771 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 16 ft | 701 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 013 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 16 ft | 687 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 014 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 21 ft | 667 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 015 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 26 ft | 648 ft | $10–$16 |
| IRON MINE | 016 | type not stated | 40 ft | 641 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 017 | type not stated | 40 ft | 621 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 018 | type not stated | 30 ft | 620 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 019 | type not stated | 20 ft | 607 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 020 | type not stated | 20 ft | 615 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 021 | type not stated | 20 ft | 612 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 022 | type not stated | 18 ft | 620 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 023 | type not stated | 30 ft | 633 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 024 | type not stated | 20 ft | 622 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 025 | type not stated | 20 ft | 628 ft | $10 | |
| IRON MINE | 026 | group standard nonelectric | 190 ft | 554 ft | $25 |
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.
25 of 26 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
HadesAshley National Forest · 1.6 mi
Aspen (UT)Ashley National Forest · 4.5 miAspen CampgroundAshley National Forest · 4.6 mi
Cobblerest CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 5.5 mi
Shady Dell CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 7.2 miFrom Duchesne, Utah: Take Highway 87 north to the junction with Highway 35. Turn west on Highway 35 towards Tabiona and continue approximately 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 Woodland, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 35°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 35°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
Iron Mine 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 →