Navajo Cliffs
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- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Navajo Cliffs is an ideal group day-use site for weddings, reunions and large gatherings. It's just 7 miles south of Manila, Utah, along the scenic Sheep Creek Geological Loop at an elevation of 6,200 feet. Keep reading
Recreation
Sheep Creek offers rainbow trout and kokanee salmon fishing. Boating, fishing, canoeing, water skiing and swimming are popular activities on nearby Flaming Gorge.
Facilities
This group day-use site can accommodate up to 80 people. Large picnic tables, a serving table, grills and a campfire ring with benches are provided. A vault toilet and garbage service is provided but there is no water. Picnickers must bring their own supply.
Natural Features
The site offers beautiful views of unique Navajo Cliffs. Shady trees line the banks of Sheep Creek, which runs through the site. Wildlife is plentiful in the area. Typical weather ranges from warm days to cool nights.
Nearby Attractions
Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area is known not only for its beautiful red cliffs, but also for its world-class fishing for lake, brown and rainbow trout. Boating, waterskiing, jet skiing, canoeing, kayaking, swimming and scuba diving are popular activities on the reservoir. 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
No water available; Visitors must bring their own supply
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Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…ring with benches are provided. A vault toilet and garbage service is provided but there is no…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and garbage service is provided but there is no water. Picnickers must bring their own supply. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Ranger programs
- Swimming
- Wildlife viewing
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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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 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| NAVAJO CLIFFS | 1 | day use | 253 ft | 245 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Carmel CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.5 mi
Willows CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.7 mi
Sheep Creek Bay CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.6 mi
Summit Springs Guard StationAshley National Forest · 3.6 mi
Hideout Canyon Boat-In CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.2 miKingfisher Island Boat-in CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.5 miFrom Manila, Utah: Travel 7 miles south on Highway 44 to Sheep Creek Geological Loop. Site is a short distance from Carmel Campground on Sheep Creek.
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 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.
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.
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
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
Navajo Cliffs 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- The member who votes the moneyMike KennedyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn R. CurtisU.S. Senator · Utah
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike LeeU.S. Senator · Utah
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Navajo Cliffs has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. Navajo Cliffs, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Navajo Cliffs (Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Navajo Cliffs has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. Navajo Cliffs, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Navajo Cliffs (Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Navajo Cliffs has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. Navajo Cliffs, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Navajo Cliffs (Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, Utah) via campanac.com