Red Springs Campground
- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 17 of the next 17 nights read 15:52 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located just North of mile marker 383 on Highway 191! Coordinates: Latitude: 40.808744 Longitude: -109.468547 Red Springs C.G. is located conveniently off Highway 191 between Vernal and Flaming Gorge within the Ashley National Forest. This campground provides a scenic jumping off point to the wide variety of recreation opportunities on the Forest inlcuding hiking, fishing, and OHV riding. This group site includes water access (various spigots throughout the camp - water will be turned on in the site late July), approximately 8 location to park camper trailers depending on trailer size, many spots for tents to be set up, various concrete picnic tables, new metal firepit rings, and a newly installed double vault toilet. Keep reading
Recreation
An impressive variety of nearby natural attractions include the Ashley National Forest, Flaming Gorge and Ashley Karst National Recreation Areas, Cave Systems, East Park Reservoir, and hundreds of miles of trails. Not only can you spend your days and nights in this wonderful, shady, and relaxing campground, but you can also get out and enjoy other features the Ashley National Forest has to offer. There are many hiking, skiing, ATV, and horse trails nearby. Or, head over to Flaming Gorge and enjoy fishing for various sportfish, panfish, or the ever desired giant lake trout! Sheep Creek Geological Loop, Spirit Lake, Ute Fire Tower Lookout, Red Canyon Lodge, and other sought-after stops are within an hour drive of this campground.
Facilities
Double Vault Toilet, Fire Rings, Concrete Tables, Tested (drinkable) Water from Spigots, Road Base Loop Throughout Campground.
Natural Features
An impressive variety of nearby natural attractions include the Ashley National Forest, Flaming Gorge and Ashley Karst National Recreation Areas, Cave Systems, East Park Reservoir, and hundreds of miles of trails. Not only can you spend your days and nights in this wonderful, shady, and relaxing campground, but you can also get out and enjoy other features the Ashley National Forest has to offer. There are many hiking, skiing, ATV, and horse trails nearby. Or, head over to Flaming Gorge and enjoy fishing for various sportfish, panfish, or the ever desired giant lake trout! Sheep Creek Geological Loop, Spirit Lake, Ute Fire Tower Lookout, Red Canyon Lodge, and other sought-after stops are within an hour drive of this campground.
Nearby Attractions
An impressive variety of nearby natural attractions include the Ashley National Forest, Flaming Gorge and Ashley Karst National Recreation Areas, Cave Systems, East Park Reservoir, and hundreds of miles of trails. Not only can you spend your days and nights in this wonderful, shady, and relaxing campground, but you can also get out and enjoy other features the Ashley National Forest has to offer. There are many hiking, skiing, ATV, and horse trails nearby. Or, head over to Flaming Gorge and enjoy fishing for various sportfish, panfish, or the ever desired giant lake trout! Sheep Creek Geological Loop, Spirit Lake, Ute Fire Tower Lookout, Red Canyon Lodge, and other sought-after stops are within an hour drive of this campground.
What the agency tells you
Contact the Ashley N.F. Front Desk at 435-789-1181 to confirm your gate code.
The entire campground is reserved for your group.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 1 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 1 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Archery
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Caving
- Climbing
- Cultural Activities
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Night sky · 129th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Cell signal · Cell signal · Forest Service says
- Yes
2 of 2 site-nights open this Friday and Saturdayread 15:52 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
OpenBooked
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.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 14
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:52 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
All 1 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Red Springs Campground | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | $50 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rock Creek Guard StationAshley National Forest · 0.0 miSheep Creek Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 1.3 mi
Browne Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 3.5 mi
Browne Lake Group SitesAshley National Forest · 3.6 mi
Summit Springs Guard StationAshley National Forest · 5.6 mi
Carmel CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 6.1 miTake Highway 191, heading north from Vernal. Once you pass Cart creek meadow (west side of the road), you will soon see mile marker 383 (still HWY 191). 1/10th of a mile past the mile marker 383 post, you will see the entrance to the Red Springs campground on the west side of the road (towards the ridge). As you enter, there is a loop through the campground. You can drive either direction on the loop, whatever works best for you and your trailer/setup!
The agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manila, UT
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 Springs 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
“the agency's own site records list "CELL PHONE SERVICE" on 1 of 1 campsites here”