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

Mustang Ridge Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 15 opens May 15.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $82From, per site
Sites: 69All of them booked ahead

Photos · James Julian

80 ftLongest rig

6,130 ftElevation

459 ftWater · Flaming Gorge Reservoir

30.5 miNE of Maeser, UT

30%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices

In the agency’s own words

Mustang Ridge Campground is located on a high desert bluff above beautiful Flaming Gorge Reservoir at an elevation of 6,300 feet. The reservoir can be accessed within a half-mile of the campground. Recreational activities abound, including boating, water skiing and fishing. Keep reading

Recreation

A boat ramp is adjacent to the campground, offering great access to boating, water skiing and fishing on the reservoir. Sunny Cove Day Use Area is within a half-mile, offering a quieter place for swimming, fishing, canoeing, kayaking, hiking and rock climbing.

Facilities

This large campground offers several family campsites, two of which are accessible, and one group site that can accommodate up to 40 people. Sites are equipped with picnic tables and campfire rings. Flush and vault toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. An amphitheater with bleacher seating and a screen support is located on the outer loop. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Roads and parking spurs are paved.

Natural Features

The campground is situated among a dense pinyon pine and juniper forest dotted with sagebrush. The vegetation provides privacy between campsites but only partial shade. The outer loop campsites are on the edge of the ridge and offer expansive views of the reservoir.

Nearby Attractions

Flaming Gorge Dam offers guided tours of the working hydroelectric plant and the dam, 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. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (801) 226-3564.

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

What the agency tells you

Rule

CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.

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

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 · 9

Rule

Drinking water is available from mid to late May through mid to late September

Rule

No hookups available.

Rule

Dump stations are located at Antelope Flat, Deer Run, Firefighters, and Lodgepole. A fee is charged.

Rule

Showers are located at Deer Run and Mustang Ridge for campers with proof of camping registration.

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

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

Rule

Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day. Cash or personal check.

Rule

Click here for more info about the Ashley National Forest

Rule

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

Read them on the agency’s own page →

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

Tents and rigs

Sites: 69 · 1 group
Hookups: None
Longest rig: 80 ft
Paved pads: 68 of 69
Accessible sites: 2
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

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

Facilities

Toilets: Vault Toilets; “…tables and campfire rings. Flush and vault toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. An…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Flush and vault toilets, drinking water and showers are provided.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…campfire rings. Flush and vault toilets, drinking water and showers are provided. An amphitheater with…”
Boat ramp: Yes
Firewood: Sold here
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, River; Boating; Fishing; Swimming
Night sky · 158th 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

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 15, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 15, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

Max stay16 nightsthe facility record

A night$82plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$172DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

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

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night$82

Double Site Non-Electric$82

Group area, a night$230

These are next season’s rates, May 15, 2027 to Sep 15, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

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.

What this campground addsits own record

Extra vehicle$10

“Extra Vehicle will be charged $10 per vehicle per day.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$90

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$172

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $82 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.

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 · 6

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

What this campground adds: The U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record and notices for this campground, quoted verbatim. An extra-vehicle charge is set locally and appears on no national schedule, so it’s never assumed. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · 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

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

69 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 60 mapped sites

92 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

Most roomLoop UPSG 54 173 ftGRP1 168 ftLoop UPSG 32 158 ftLoop UPSG 33 158 ftLoop UPSG 55 137 ft

Least roomLoop UPSG 23 50 ftLoop UPSG 24 50 ftLoop UPSG 44 63 ft

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

All 69 sites

60 of 69 sites located

Standard59Group1

GRP1 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 63 64 65 66 67 68

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 60 of the 69 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. 69 of the 69 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.


GRP1	GRP1	group standard area nonelectric	40 ft		167 ft	106 ft	2,126 ft	$230
UPSG	01	standard nonelectric	60 ft		98 ft	1,010 ft	1,656 ft	$82
UPSG	02	standard nonelectric	35 ft		98 ft	919 ft	1,659 ft	$82
UPSG	03	standard nonelectric	35 ft		87 ft	947 ft	1,563 ft	$82
UPSG	04	standard nonelectric	75 ft		83 ft	1,032 ft	1,501 ft	$82
UPSG	05	standard nonelectric	50 ft		83 ft	991 ft	1,467 ft	$82
UPSG	06	standard nonelectric	60 ft		71 ft	918 ft	1,345 ft	$82
UPSG	07	standard nonelectric	80 ft		71 ft	874 ft	1,302 ft	$82
UPSG	08	standard nonelectric	50 ft		137 ft	757 ft	1,183 ft	$82
UPSG	09	standard nonelectric	65 ft		75 ft	615 ft	1,038 ft	$82
UPSG	10	standard nonelectric	65 ft		75 ft	546 ft	968 ft	$82
UPSG	11	standard nonelectric	45 ft		74 ft	463 ft	876 ft	$82
UPSG	12	standard nonelectric	80 ft		74 ft	507 ft	912 ft	$82
UPSG	13	standard nonelectric	40 ft					$82
UPSG	14	standard nonelectric	40 ft		69 ft	419 ft	783 ft	$82
UPSG	15	standard nonelectric	40 ft		69 ft	350 ft	719 ft	$82
UPSG	16	standard nonelectric	35 ft		69 ft	331 ft	759 ft	$82
UPSG	17	standard nonelectric	40 ft		69 ft	298 ft	695 ft	$82
UPSG	18	standard nonelectric	40 ft		82 ft	240 ft	690 ft	$82
UPSG	19	standard nonelectric	60 ft		78 ft	256 ft	836 ft	$82
UPSG	20	standard nonelectric	60 ft		78 ft	228 ft	893 ft	$82
UPSG	21	standard nonelectric	25 ft		100 ft	343 ft	1,072 ft	$82
UPSG	22	standard nonelectric	55 ft		100 ft	317 ft	1,125 ft	$82
UPSG	23	standard nonelectric	50 ft		50 ft	376 ft	1,241 ft	$82
UPSG	24	standard nonelectric	35 ft		50 ft	413 ft	1,242 ft	$82
UPSG	25	standard nonelectric	65 ft		76 ft	327 ft	1,307 ft	$82
UPSG	26	standard nonelectric	60 ft		119 ft	327 ft	1,437 ft	$82
UPSG	27	standard nonelectric	50 ft		108 ft	446 ft	1,468 ft	$82
UPSG	28	standard nonelectric	46 ft		100 ft	397 ft	1,602 ft	$82
UPSG	29	standard nonelectric	60 ft		100 ft	420 ft	1,576 ft	$82
UPSG	30	standard nonelectric	35 ft		95 ft	291 ft	1,714 ft	$82
UPSG	31	standard nonelectric	40 ft		95 ft	252 ft	1,708 ft	$82
UPSG	32	standard nonelectric	40 ft		158 ft	356 ft	1,557 ft	$82
UPSG	33	standard nonelectric	60 ft		158 ft	339 ft	1,573 ft	$82
UPSG	34	standard nonelectric	50 ft		134 ft	203 ft	1,716 ft	$82
UPSG	35	standard nonelectric	40 ft					$82
UPSG	36	standard nonelectric	35 ft		134 ft	199 ft	1,727 ft	$82
UPSG	37	standard nonelectric	43 ft		137 ft	181 ft	1,766 ft	$82
UPSG	38	standard nonelectric	40 ft		110 ft	247 ft	1,745 ft	$82
UPSG	39	standard nonelectric	35 ft		74 ft	160 ft	1,880 ft	$82
UPSG	40	standard nonelectric	35 ft		74 ft	234 ft	1,824 ft	$82
UPSG	41	standard nonelectric	35 ft		92 ft	156 ft	1,940 ft	$82
UPSG	42	standard nonelectric	35 ft		95 ft	228 ft	1,909 ft	$82
UPSG	43	standard nonelectric	35 ft		103 ft	147 ft	2,011 ft	$82
UPSG	44	standard nonelectric	35 ft		63 ft	226 ft	1,973 ft	$82
UPSG	45	standard nonelectric	45 ft		88 ft	374 ft	1,841 ft	$82
UPSG	46	standard nonelectric	40 ft	yes	63 ft	288 ft	1,925 ft	$82
UPSG	47	standard nonelectric	35 ft	yes				$82
UPSG	48	standard nonelectric	50 ft					$82
UPSG	49	standard nonelectric	60 ft					$82
UPSG	50	standard nonelectric	60 ft					$82
UPSG	51	standard nonelectric	60 ft					$82
UPSG	52	standard nonelectric	35 ft		99 ft	569 ft	1,503 ft	$82
UPSG	53	standard nonelectric	46 ft		99 ft	486 ft	1,533 ft	$82
UPSG	54	standard nonelectric	50 ft		173 ft	386 ft	1,564 ft	$82
UPSG	55	standard nonelectric	50 ft		137 ft	336 ft	1,589 ft	$82
UPSG	56	standard nonelectric	50 ft		130 ft	466 ft	1,456 ft	$82
UPSG	57	standard nonelectric	60 ft		130 ft	562 ft	1,353 ft	$82
UPSG	58	standard nonelectric	35 ft		125 ft	649 ft	1,520 ft	$82
UPSG	59	standard nonelectric	60 ft		66 ft	491 ft	1,237 ft	$82
UPSG	60	standard nonelectric	43 ft		66 ft	557 ft	1,285 ft	$82
UPSG	61	standard nonelectric	70 ft					$82
UPSG	62	standard nonelectric	50 ft					$82
UPSG	63	standard nonelectric	30 ft		92 ft	512 ft	1,185 ft	$82
UPSG	64	standard nonelectric	45 ft		92 ft	476 ft	1,105 ft	$82
UPSG	65	standard nonelectric	45 ft		83 ft	340 ft	972 ft	$82
UPSG	66	standard nonelectric	70 ft		83 ft	419 ft	996 ft	$82
UPSG	67	standard nonelectric	43 ft		113 ft	369 ft	895 ft	$82
UPSG	68	standard nonelectric	47 ft		108 ft	307 ft	800 ft	$82

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 69 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

Coordinate40.92639, -109.43917

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone435-889-3000

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Dutch John Draw CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.0 mi

Cedar Springs CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi

Deer Run CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.3 mi

Dutch John Draw Group CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.6 mi

Arch Dam CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi

Jarvies Family Boat InFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.0 mi

Getting there

From Vernal, take U.S. 191 north for 51 miles. Three miles north of Dutch John on U.S. 191, turn west onto Forest Road 184 and travel approximately 2 miles to the campground.

From Manila, Utah, take Highway 44 for 28 miles. Turn left on U.S. 191 and go north for about 13 miles, passing through Dutch John. Three miles north of Dutch John on U.S. 191, turn west onto Forest Road 184 and travel approximately 2 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 59 miles toward Dutch John. Three miles north of Dutch John on U.S. 191, turn west onto Forest Road 184 and travel approximately 2 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

Today60°Sunny

Tonight34°Mostly Clear

Saturday64°Sunny

Saturday Night35°Mostly Clear

NWS forecast for Dutch John, UT

Source: National Weather Service, GJT forecast office · Oct 16, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 32°F, day 62°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 13°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°0°

Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more

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), 2 miles away and 114 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

Bare Top Mountain12,882 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

North Speirs Peak6,471 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area

Roadless

North Bare Top Mountain1,471 acres · 6 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

Mustang Ridge 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: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026 and November 2026. It names 69 of the 69 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 14, 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 60 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: 0.064 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: Dutch John, UT, 0.3 mi W. 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