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U.S. Forest Service · Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · UT

Lucerne Campground

Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:46 UTC

Why it’s closed, and what’s open near here Tell me when it comes back

Right now: Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:46 UTC
A night: $38When it reopens, per site
Sites: 147In the agency’s record
Season: May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30

Photos · USFS

70 ftLongest rig

6,060 ftElevation

723 ftWater · Flaming Gorge Reservoir

32.7 miS of Green River, WY

0%Tree cover

Open May 1 through September 30Today

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices

In the agency’s own words

Lucerne Campground is located on the shore of Flaming Gorge Reservoir at an elevation of 6,100 feet. Boating, fishing and water skiing are popular activities. Keep reading

Recreation

Fishing, boating, canoeing, water skiing and swimming are popular activities on the lake. Campers are offered the convenience of an adjacent boat ramp, marina and fish cleaning station. Lucerne Marina has boat rentals, fuel, slips, fishing licenses, bait and groceries.

Facilities

This large, recently renovated campground offers nearly 140 sites campsites, many of which are accessible and have electric hookups. One group site (site B) in the G Loop is available. Sites in Loops A through D each have a picnic table, campfire ring (no grill), windbreak, electric hookups (30-50 amp) and parking spur. Loop D also has tent pads and shade cabanas. Loops E and F have shade cabanas, picnic tables and campfire rings but no electric hookups. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are available throughout the campground. A dump station is located on-site.

Natural Features

The campground is situated in a high desert landscape with sagebrush and a few scattered trees. Natural shade is minimal. Typical weather ranges from warm days to cool nights.

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.

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

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.

Rule

Entry Booth is open 9am - 7 pm. Phone 435-784-3038 leave a message prior to 7 pm for late arrivals and info.

Rule

Drinking water available from April 1 through November 1 only

Everything else this campground posts · 7

Rule

Fee required for dump station use.

Rule

All Sites in Loops A, B, C & D meet accepted Accessibility standards and may be reserved by anyone

Rule

Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest

Rule

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.

Rule

Click here to learn more about the Ashley National Forest

Rule

Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.

Rule

Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Ashley.Lucerne@AmericanLL.com

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 147 · 3 group, 4 cabin
Hookups: 122 electric
Longest rig: 70 ft
Paved pads: 121 of 147
Accessible sites: 96
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…campfire rings but no electric hookups. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are available…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are available throughout the campground.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…but no electric hookups. Flush toilets, drinking water and showers are available throughout the…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Camp host: On site; recreation.gov lists “Host”

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake; Boating; Canoeing; Fishing; Swimming; Water sports
Night sky · 128th darkest of 458 in UT: Bortle 2

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:46 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

OpenBookedClosed

Max stay16 nightsthe facility record

A night, when it reopens$38plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itAmerican Land & LeisureA private concessionaire under permit from U.S. Forest Servicethe operator link

What’s open near here

Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, when it reopens$38

Standard Electric$38

Standard Nonelectric$38

Standard Electric -Whole Season$2530

Group areas, a night$80–$125

Rates for the season the campground is in now, Sep 16, 2026 to Dec 31, 2026.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

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

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Oct 1, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Lucerne Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Forest Service status record · Oct 17, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 60 miles · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Deer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 9.3 mi · 18 sites
Dripping Springs Campground (UT)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 13 mi · 26 sites
Cottonwood River CampJohn Wesley Powell National Conservation Area · 37 mi
Big Pine I River CampAshley National Forest · 38 mi

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

147 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 122 mapped sites

46 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

75%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomGroup B 286 ftGroup A 270 ftGroup C 270 ftA012 116 ftB011 99 ft

Least roomC02 14 ftC03 14 ftE001 17 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 147 sites

143 of 147 sites located

Standard1RV / electric114Group3Cabin or shelter4Type not stated21

A001 A002 A003 A004 A005 A006 A007 A008 A009 A010 A011 A012 A013 A014 A015 A016 A017 A018 A019 A020 Unit 1 Unit 2 Unit 3 Unit 4 B001 B003 B004 B005 B006 B007 B008 B009 B010 B011 B012 B014 B016 B018 B020 B021 B022 B023 C001 C02 C03 C04 C05 C06 C07 C09 C10 C11 C12 C13 C14 C16 C18 C20 C22 C23 D001 D002 D003 D004 D005 D006 D007 D008 D009 D010 D011 D012 D013 D014 D015 D016 D017 D018 D019 D020 D021 D022 D023 D024 E001 E002 E003 E004 E005 E006 E007 E008 E009 E010 E011 E012 E013 E014 E015 E016 E017 E018 E019 E020 E021 E022 E023 E024 E025 F001 F002 F003 F004 F005 F006 F007 F008 F009 F010 F011 F012 F013 F014 F015 F016 F017 F018 F019 F020 F021 F022 F023 F024 F025 A B C B013 B015 C015 C017 C019 C021

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 143 of the 147 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. 126 of the 147 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.


A	A001	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	80 ft	154 ft	277 ft	$38
A	A002	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	64 ft	230 ft	210 ft	$38
A	A003	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	57 ft	289 ft	146 ft	$38
A	A004	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	26 ft	346 ft	94 ft	$38
A	A005	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	26 ft	363 ft	71 ft	$38
A	A006	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	34 ft	395 ft	51 ft	$38
A	A007	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	50 ft	402 ft	25 ft	$38
A	A008	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	70 ft	333 ft	81 ft	$38
A	A009	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	67 ft	156 ft	255 ft	$38
A	A010	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	63 ft	221 ft	188 ft	$38
A	A011	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	89 ft	159 ft	251 ft	$38
A	A012	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	116 ft	192 ft	265 ft	$38
A	A013	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	34 ft	321 ft	161 ft	$38
A	A014	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	34 ft	330 ft	183 ft	$38
A	A015	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	63 ft	247 ft	162 ft	$38
A	A016	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	52 ft	343 ft	179 ft	$38
A	A017	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	52 ft	376 ft	129 ft	$38
A	A018	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	58 ft	284 ft	193 ft	$38
A	A019	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	28 ft	222 ft	247 ft	$38
A	A020	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	28 ft	230 ft	226 ft	$38
Apartments	Unit 1	cabin electric				42 ft	1,140 ft	775 ft	$125
Apartments	Unit 2	cabin electric				40 ft	1,179 ft	816 ft	$125
Apartments	Unit 3	cabin electric				40 ft	1,214 ft	853 ft	$125
Apartments	Unit 4	cabin electric				43 ft	1,252 ft	884 ft	$125
B	B001	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	69 ft	454 ft	263 ft	$38
B	B002	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes				$38
B	B003	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	40 ft	532 ft	143 ft	$38
B	B004	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	40 ft	524 ft	106 ft	$38
B	B005	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	48 ft	486 ft	75 ft	$38
B	B006	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	80 ft	404 ft	46 ft	$38
B	B007	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	77 ft	325 ft	97 ft	$38
B	B008	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	65 ft	249 ft	170 ft	$38
B	B009	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	65 ft	189 ft	229 ft	$38
B	B010	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	77 ft	146 ft	281 ft	$38
B	B011	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	99 ft	194 ft	260 ft	$38
B	B012	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	31 ft	300 ft	196 ft	$38
B	B014	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	26 ft	383 ft	142 ft	$38
B	B016	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	66 ft	474 ft	137 ft	$38
B	B018	standard electric	31 ft	50/30 amp	yes	66 ft	423 ft	179 ft	$38
B	B020	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	42 ft	358 ft	249 ft	$38
B	B021	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	42 ft	342 ft	242 ft	$38
B	B022	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	74 ft	293 ft	313 ft	$38
B	B023	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	69 ft	389 ft	312 ft	$38
C	C001	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	52 ft	677 ft	244 ft	$38
C	C02	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	14 ft	626 ft	194 ft	$38
C	C03	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	14 ft	624 ft	192 ft	$38
C	C04	standard electric	35 ft	50/30 amp	yes	28 ft	558 ft	126 ft	$38
C	C05	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	28 ft	549 ft	118 ft	$38
C	C06	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	88 ft	435 ft	45 ft	$38
C	C07	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	88 ft	347 ft	93 ft	$38
C	C08	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes				$38
C	C09	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	79 ft	210 ft	223 ft	$38
C	C10	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	79 ft	187 ft	258 ft	$38
C	C11	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	68 ft	229 ft	240 ft	$38
C	C12	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	29 ft	297 ft	193 ft	$38
C	C13	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	29 ft	325 ft	174 ft	$38
C	C14	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	24 ft	393 ft	152 ft	$38
C	C16	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	32 ft	465 ft	141 ft	$38
C	C18	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	23 ft	524 ft	169 ft	$38
C	C20	standard electric	60 ft	15/30/50 amp	yes	26 ft	616 ft	239 ft	$38
C	C22	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	75 ft	600 ft	307 ft	$38
C	C23	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	82 ft	697 ft	306 ft	$38
D	D001	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	63 ft	683 ft	275 ft	$38
D	D002	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	25 ft	600 ft	190 ft	$38
D	D003	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	25 ft	584 ft	178 ft	$38
D	D004	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	22 ft	500 ft	90 ft	$38
D	D005	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	22 ft	490 ft	86 ft	$38
D	D006	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	44 ft	387 ft	33 ft	$38
D	D007	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	44 ft	345 ft	68 ft	$38
D	D008	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	65 ft	281 ft	136 ft	$38
D	D009	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	65 ft	221 ft	191 ft	$38
D	D010	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	74 ft	180 ft	243 ft	$38
D	D011	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	94 ft	202 ft	267 ft	$38
D	D012	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	39 ft	293 ft	206 ft	$38
D	D013	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	39 ft	329 ft	170 ft	$38
D	D014	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	30 ft	362 ft	157 ft	$38
D	D015	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	30 ft	385 ft	164 ft	$38
D	D016	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	20 ft	440 ft	134 ft	$38
D	D017	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	20 ft	448 ft	153 ft	$38
D	D018	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	35 ft	547 ft	174 ft	$38
D	D019	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	35 ft	530 ft	184 ft	$38
D	D020	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	39 ft	615 ft	232 ft	$38
D	D021	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	39 ft	606 ft	217 ft	$38
D	D022	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	92 ft	702 ft	301 ft	$38
D	D023	standard nonelectric	60 ft		yes	48 ft	752 ft	344 ft	$38
D	D024	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	48 ft	715 ft	303 ft	$38
E	E001	standard electric	35 ft			17 ft	650 ft	271 ft	$38
E	E002	standard electric	35 ft			51 ft	590 ft	208 ft	$38
E	E003	standard electric	35 ft			51 ft	567 ft	192 ft	$38
E	E004	standard electric	35 ft			34 ft	471 ft	92 ft	$38
E	E005	standard electric	35 ft			34 ft	456 ft	88 ft	$38
E	E006	standard electric	35 ft			68 ft	339 ft	67 ft	$38
E	E007	standard electric	35 ft			49 ft	288 ft	94 ft	$38
E	E008	standard electric	35 ft			49 ft	243 ft	141 ft	$38
E	E009	standard electric	35 ft			25 ft	219 ft	167 ft	$38
E	E010	standard electric	35 ft			25 ft	202 ft	181 ft	$38
E	E011	standard electric	35 ft			50 ft	187 ft	210 ft	$38
E	E012	standard electric	35 ft			73 ft	213 ft	231 ft	$38
E	E013	type not stated	35 ft				262 ft	194 ft
E	E014	standard electric	35 ft			73 ft	285 ft	191 ft	$38
E	E015	type not stated	35 ft				346 ft	136 ft
E	E016	standard electric	35 ft			75 ft	358 ft	155 ft	$38
E	E017	standard electric	35 ft			26 ft	449 ft	131 ft	$38
E	E018	standard electric	35 ft			26 ft	464 ft	157 ft	$38
E	E019	standard electric	35 ft			28 ft	543 ft	199 ft	$38
E	E020	standard electric	35 ft			28 ft	542 ft	215 ft	$38
E	E021	standard electric	35 ft			27 ft	633 ft	280 ft	$38
E	E022	standard electric	35 ft			27 ft	620 ft	280 ft	$38
E	E023	standard electric	35 ft			54 ft	687 ft	325 ft	$38
E	E024	standard electric	35 ft			78 ft	708 ft	329 ft	$38
E	E025	standard electric	35 ft			17 ft	651 ft	274 ft	$38
F	F001	type not stated	35 ft				739 ft	318 ft
F	F002	type not stated	35 ft				722 ft	311 ft
F	F003	type not stated	35 ft				673 ft	250 ft
F	F004	type not stated	35 ft				657 ft	246 ft
F	F005	type not stated	35 ft				594 ft	172 ft
F	F006	type not stated	35 ft				523 ft	108 ft
F	F007	type not stated	35 ft				471 ft	84 ft
F	F008	type not stated	35 ft				400 ft	113 ft
F	F009	type not stated	35 ft				324 ft	164 ft
F	F010	type not stated	35 ft				318 ft	115 ft
F	F011	type not stated	35 ft				240 ft	225 ft
F	F012	type not stated	35 ft				202 ft	232 ft
F	F013	type not stated	70 ft				212 ft	215 ft
F	F014	type not stated	35 ft				298 ft	127 ft
F	F015	type not stated	35 ft				298 ft	177 ft
F	F016	type not stated	35 ft				384 ft	82 ft
F	F017	type not stated	35 ft				392 ft	168 ft
F	F018	type not stated	35 ft				466 ft	112 ft
F	F019	type not stated	35 ft				474 ft	201 ft
F	F020	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	68 ft	545 ft	178 ft	$38
F	F021	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	88 ft	539 ft	240 ft	$38
F	F022	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	68 ft	613 ft	237 ft	$38
F	F023	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	78 ft	669 ft	325 ft	$38
F	F024	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	78 ft	738 ft	366 ft	$38
F	F025	standard electric		50/30 amp	yes	69 ft	678 ft	286 ft	$38
Group	A	group standard nonelectric	35 ft			270 ft	650 ft	122 ft	$80
Group	B	group standard nonelectric	35 ft			286 ft	378 ft	189 ft	$80
Group	C	group standard nonelectric	35 ft			270 ft	673 ft	222 ft	$80
Longterm	B013	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	31 ft	293 ft	194 ft	$38
Longterm	B015	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	26 ft	374 ft	168 ft	$38
Longterm	B017	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes				$38
Longterm	B019	standard electric	40 ft	50/30 amp	yes				$38
Longterm	C015	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	24 ft	389 ft	157 ft	$38
Longterm	C017	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	32 ft	461 ft	161 ft	$38
Longterm	C019	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	23 ft	530 ft	191 ft	$38
Longterm	C021	standard electric	60 ft	50/30 amp	yes	26 ft	614 ft	244 ft	$38

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Oct 1, 2026

25 of 147 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate40.98372, -109.59050

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone801-226-3564

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Stateline Cove CampgroundAshley National Forest · 1.4 mi Antelope Flat CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.3 mi

Antelope Flat (Ashley National Forest, UT)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.4 mi Kingfisher Island Boat-in CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.0 mi

Hideout Canyon Boat-In CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 5.6 mi

Sheep Creek Bay CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 6.2 mi

Getting there

From Manila, Utah: Follow Highway 43 for 2.6 miles to the state line, where Highway 43 becomes Wyoming Highway 530. Follow Wyoming 530 for 1.3 miles to Lucerne Valley Road/Forest Road 146. Continue on this road approximately 4 miles to the campground.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight40°Mostly Clear

Saturday62°Sunny

Saturday Night38°Mostly Clear

Sunday62°Mostly Sunny

NWS forecast for Washam, WY

Source: National Weather Service, GJT forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

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.

100°32°0°

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.

Measured at: FLAMING GORGE, UT (USC00422864), 10 miles away and 184 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless

Lake Creek398 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

North Bare Top Mountain1,471 acres · 3 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

North Dowd Mountain446 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026

Who answers for this land

Lucerne 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 15:46 UTC). U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 126 of the 147 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Season: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 143 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.054 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 458 rated federal campgrounds in Utah · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Washam, WY, 4.4 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026