Lodgepole at Flaming Gorge
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 3522 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
Lodgepole Campground is settled near beautiful Flaming Gorge Reservoir just 26 miles north of Vernal, UTAH, at an elevation of 8,000 feet. Visitors enjoy exploring local trails and day-tripping to the reservoir, only 10 miles away. Keep reading
Recreation
Many campers make the short trip to beautiful Flaming Gorge Recreation Area 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. Cedar Springs Marina is less than 10 miles from the campground.
Facilities
The campground contains several family sites each equipped with a picnic table and campfire ring. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Roads and parking spurs are paved. Water and R.V. dump available.
Natural Features
A scenic aspen forest dotted with pines covers the campground, offering pleasant shade and pretty fall color. Summer wildflowers are abundant in this shady, secluded campground. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.
Nearby Attractions
Flaming Gorge Dam offers beautiful views, and 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
This is Lodgepole Campground on the Ashley National Forest near Flaming Gorge, Utah and Rock Springs, Wyoming; this is not Lodgepole Campground located in the Uinta National Forest in near Provo, Orem and Heber, Utah.
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
This campground has first come, first served sites. There is no guarantee a site of this type will be available.
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Dump stations are located at Antelope Flat, Deer Run, and Firefighters campgrounds. 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.
Click here for more info about the Ashley National Forest
Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day. Cash or personal check.
Firewood is available for sale at 10$ a bundle.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.DutchJohn@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 35
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 63 ft
- Paved pads
- 21 of 35
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 2 of 36 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Picnicking
- Scenic drives
- Swimming
- Water access
- Water sports
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 150th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 22 of the 35 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 · 11
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 · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
36 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 35 mapped sitesAll 36 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 35 of the 36 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
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.
| LODG | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 98 ft | 982 ft | 234 ft |
| LODG | 002 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 98 ft | 885 ft | 159 ft |
| LODG | 003 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 80 ft | 941 ft | 160 ft |
| LODG | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 99 ft | 871 ft | 133 ft |
| LODG | 006 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 99 ft | 969 ft | 217 ft |
| LODG | 007 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 105 ft | 993 ft | 306 ft |
| LODG | 008 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 105 ft | 897 ft | 276 ft |
| LODG | 009 | standard nonelectric | 53 ft | 93 ft | 991 ft | 236 ft |
| LODG | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 910 ft | 152 ft |
| LODG | 011 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 100 ft | 996 ft | 176 ft |
| LODG | 012 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 107 ft | 931 ft | 84 ft |
| LODG | 013 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 105 ft | 996 ft | 186 ft |
| LODG | 014 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 102 ft | 900 ft | 169 ft |
| LODG | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 972 ft | 266 ft |
| LODG | 016 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | 111 ft | 907 ft | 330 ft |
| LODG | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 125 ft | 784 ft | 305 ft |
| LODG | 018 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 92 ft | 728 ft | 165 ft |
| LODG | 019 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 92 ft | 799 ft | 173 ft |
| LODG | 020 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 104 ft | 819 ft | 57 ft |
| LODG | 021 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 104 ft | 725 ft | 135 ft |
| LODG | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 106 ft | 779 ft | 80 ft |
| LODG | 023 | standard nonelectric | 111 ft | 665 ft | 188 ft | |
| LODG | 024 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 658 ft | 267 ft | |
| LODG | 025 | standard nonelectric | 98 ft | 756 ft | 219 ft | |
| LODG | 026 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 732 ft | 174 ft | |
| LODG | 027 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 641 ft | 205 ft | |
| LODG | 028 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 619 ft | 172 ft | |
| LODG | 029 | standard nonelectric | 94 ft | 702 ft | 80 ft | |
| LODG | 030 | standard nonelectric | 119 ft | 610 ft | 203 ft | |
| LODG | 031 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 727 ft | 152 ft | |
| LODG | 032 | standard nonelectric | 103 ft | 656 ft | 274 ft | |
| LODG | 033 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 714 ft | 326 ft | |
| LODG | 034 | standard nonelectric | 102 ft | 793 ft | 215 ft | |
| LODG | 035 | standard nonelectric | 101 ft | 810 ft | 315 ft | |
| LODG | 04 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 862 ft | 83 ft | |
| LODG | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | Vault Toilets listed |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It filed it without a site name, and nothing in its own record decides what it is. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 36 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lodgepole CampgroundAshley National Forest · 0.0 miGrizzly Ridge MeadowAshley National Forest · 4.3 mi
Skull CreekFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.7 mi
GreendaleFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.7 mi
Limber Flag YurtAshley National Forest · 5.0 miEast Park CampgroundAshley National Forest · 5.1 miFrom Vernal, Utah, travel north on U.S. Highway 191 for 26 miles.
From Manila, Utah, travel south on Utah Highway 44 for 28 miles to U.S. Highway 191 and travel 9 miles to the campground.
From Rock Springs, Wyoming, take I-80 west toward Green River about 6 miles to the junction with U.S. 191/Flaming Gorge Road. Take U.S. 191 south for about 83 miles, passing through Dutch John.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Flaming Gorge, UT
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
Lodgepole at Flaming Gorge 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 →