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

Red Canyon Campground

The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
Right now
Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading
Season
– September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
6,680 ftElevation
1,059 ftWater · Flaming Gorge Reservoir
27.2 miN of Maeser, UT
31%Tree cover
Bortle 2Night sky · 121st darkest of 458 in UT
Closes September 30. No opening date published.Today

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.

Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

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

Around the campground

On the water
Reservoir, Lake, River, Meadow
Source: Stated in the agency description

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.

Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 7

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
See www.recreation.gov for current rates.
The single site fee covers the cost of 1 vehicle.
Each single site's maximum capacity is 2 vehicles.
There is not room for 2 sleeping units.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026

record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this

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Getting there

the map and the coordinate

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight28°Mostly Clear
Saturday60°Sunny
Saturday Night33°Mostly Clear
Sunday58°Mostly Sunny

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.

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), 8 miles away and 436 ft lower

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 · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
North Bare Top Mountain1,471 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Dowd Mountain11,705 acres · 4 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Who answers for this land

Mike Kennedy, official portrait

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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls outside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours.
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
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: Flaming Gorge, UT, 3.6 mi W (a census designated place). Straight line.