Red Canyon Campground
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Red Canyon Campground is located in a grassy meadow high above Flaming Gorge Reservoir, along Red Canyon Road. Visitors enjoy exploring the Red Canyon Rim Trail and canoeing and fishing at Greens Lake. The campground lies close to beautiful cliffs overlooking Flaming Gorge Reservoir. Lodgepole and ponderosa pines dot the campground, providing limited shade. Summer wildflowers are plentiful. Nearby Greens Lake offers great canoeing and fishing for rainbow and brook trout. Red Canyon Lodge sits on the shore. Canoe and bike rentals, horseback riding, a restaurant and gift shop are available. Keep reading
Red Canyon Rim Trail, for hiking and biking, begins at the nearby visitor center, which offers interpretive displays and area information. Good to Know Trash collection is provided. No electric, water or sewer hookups are available. 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. Firewood is available to purchase at the Greens Lake Campground from the host. Dump stations are located at Antelope Flat, Deer Run, Firefighters, and Lodgepole. A fee is charged. Showers are located at Deer Run and Mustang Ridge for campers with proof of camping registration. 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, water skiing, 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.
Facilities
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “Showers are located at Deer Run and Mustang Ridge for campers with proof of camping registration.”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Firewood
- Sold here
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Meadow
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
How we know this receipt · 4
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Red Canyon (Ashley National Forest)Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.3 mi
Canyon RimFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 0.9 mi
Greens LakeFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 1.8 mi
Skull CreekFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 2.7 mi
Hideout Canyon Boat-In CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.8 mi
Jarvies Boat In GroupFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 4.9 miThe weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Flaming Gorge, UT
Typical weather
Typical September night 43°F, day 75°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 43°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

Red Canyon 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 →