Redman Campground
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $29.07–$84.57Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 4641 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Redman Campground is located in scenic Big Cottonwood Canyon at an elevation of 8,300 feet. Salt Lake City is conveniently close. Visitors enjoy hiking, biking and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Hiking and mountain biking are popular activities on area trails, including the Donut Falls Trail, which begins nearby. Fly-fishermen enjoy casting on Big Cottonwood Creek.
Facilities
The campground contains two group sites and numerous single, double, and triple-family sites, all with picnic tables and campfire rings. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood is available for purchase from the host. Roads and parking spurs are dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is set among a forest of shady spruce and pine trees. Vivid summer wildflowers are abundant and autumn leaves put on quite a show. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (385) 273-1100.
Nearby Attractions
Big Cottonwood Canyon is a beautiful area known for its soaring peaks, pristine hidden lakes and cascading streams. Numerous hiking and mountain biking trails are in the area. Rock climbing is a popular activity as well. Solitude Mountain Resort is half a mile up-canyon, offering scenic chairlift rides, hiking, a few dining options and a challenging 18-hole disc golf course. Silver Lake is another mile past Solitude. Fishing and canoeing are popular activities. An easy trail loops around the small lake.
Charges & Cancellations
Change and Cancellation Policies and Fees Overnight and Day Use Facilities: To ensure fairness, reservation arrival or departure dates may not be changed beyond the booking window until 18 days after booking the reservation. Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation (including campsites, cabins, lookouts, group facilities, etc.). The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount. You can cancel or change reservations through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Late Cancellations Overnight and Day Use Facilities: Late cancellations are those cancelled between 12:01 a.m. (Eastern) on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival. Individual Campsites: If a customer cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival they will be charged a $10.00 service fee and will also forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a single night's reservation will forfeit the entire use fee but no cancellation fee will apply. Cabins / Lookouts: Customers will be charged a $10.00 cancellation fee and forfeit the first night's use fee if a cabin or lookout reservation is cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Facility: If a customer cancels a group overnight facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date they will be charged the $10.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's use fee. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Day Use Area: If a customer cancels a group day use facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date, they will forfeit the total day use fee with no service fee charge. No-Shows Camping / Day Use: A camping no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Reserved campsites and group overnight facilities will be held until check-out time on the day following your scheduled arrival. Group day-use facilities will be held until check-in time on your scheduled arrival date. If a customer does not arrive at the campground or group facility by check-out time the day after arrival or does not cancel the reservation by the times listed under "Late Cancellations" above, the customer may be assessed a $20.00 service fee and forfeit use fees. Refunds Customers must request refunds no later than 14 days after the scheduled departure date. Recreation.gov will not grant refund requests after 14 days of departure. Reservation Fee: For some facilities, tours or permits an additional reservation fee is charged. For some overnight and day-use facilities, an additional non-refundable reservation fee may apply. The non-refundable reservation fee for tours and tickets is $1.00. The non-refundable reservation fee for permits varies by location. Refunds for Bankcard Purchases: Refunds for bank card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank card. Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for Recreation.gov payments made by check or money order, and cash payments at selected campgrounds will be issued a check refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. Please Note: Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when approved by the facility management staff based upon local policy. Refunds for Emergency Closures: In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be cancelled and all fees paid will be refunded. Reservation fees for free tickets are non-refundable in the event of an emergency closure. Recreation.gov Billing Information Reservation transaction will appear on customer's credit card statements as "Recreation.gov 877-444-6777." Changes to Policies and Procedures Recreation.gov reserves the right, when necessary, to modify reservation policies. These policies were last updated July 2018.
What the agency tells you
This Campground is in Bear Country Always store food and trash securely to avoid attracting wildlife -Failure to comply may result in fines up to $5,000, removal from your site and/or imprisonment Remember, a fed bear is a dead bear
No water is available on site; bring all water needed for your stay including drinking water This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; bring trash bags
Dogs are NOT allowed (only service animals) and owner may be fined $650 This is a watershed area; Visitors will be fined for bringing domestic pets or livestock into the area Wading and playing in the water is not allowed
Everything else this campground posts · 12
Campground Etiquette and Rules Gates open at 7am, close at 10pm Quiet Hours are 10pm-6am No generators after 10pm Camping is allowed only within the designated space provided. Do not go beyond the boundaries of your site Max occupancy is 8 people per single site Reserved sites will be held until 12pm on the day following your scheduled arrival date Horses/Off-road vehicles are prohibited in the campground Leave No Trace -Put all trash in dumpsters, when provided, or properly stored in your vehicle or bear box -Remove all personal property and trash when leaving -Unclean sites will be reported to the District Ranger LEO -Leaving food/trash in an unoccupied site may result in a $5,000 fine Cleaning fish, animals, or bathing where drinking water is supplied is strictly prohibited Fireworks or other explosives are prohibited. Discharging of a firearm in the campground is not allowed No fighting or boisterous behavior. Be courteous to your fellow visitor. Keep noise at a reasonable level No amplified music is allowed in USDA Forest Service campgrounds and facilities. People come to the campgrounds for peace and quiet Max Vehicle Length includes tow vehicle
There is a 2-night minimum stay on weekends; 3-night minimum stay on holiday weekends
Trailers/Campers and RVs Come with water tank filled. Hooking up to spigots or the power in the restrooms, even for medical devices is strictly prohibited
First Come First Served (FF) sites For reservable sites, reservations must be made at least 5 days in advance You must claim a FF site in person on the day you wish to check-in Sites listed as FF does not guarantee availability Recreation.gov does not update FF occupancy The only way to know if an FF site is available is to arrive at the campground on the day you plan to check-in Availability cannot be predicted Many sites are in remote locations we cannot contact camp hosts about availability Recommended arrival times vary by day. Weekends and holidays typically fill more quickly To claim an FF site, you must be present, occupy the site, and pay at that time There is no waiting list for FF sites
Off-road vehicles are not allowed in the canyon
Extra Vehicle -$10 per vehicle, per day (paid on-site cash/check) Firewood -$9
If you booked at a discount without a Senior/Access pass, you'll need to pay the difference in cash/check upon arrival. Only Senior/Access passes qualify for discounts and proof of ownership upon arrival is required
Please understand that camping is an outdoor experience; we do not give refunds for weather or natural conditions Cancellations within 24 hours prior to arrival date will forfeit the entire use fee. Group Site Cancellations within 14 days will forfeit entire use fee No-shows, early departures, or cancellations after the arrival date are not entitled to a refund Failure to arrive at the campsite by 12pm the day after scheduled arrival and does not cancel the reservation, will forfeit site and first-night use fee
For more info on visiting Bear Country visit wildawareutah.org wildlife.utah.gov For campground Rules and Regulations visit gocamputah.com/rules
Click hereor more info about the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest For more info, call Salt Lake Ranger District at 801-733-2660 opt 3 or Utah Recreation at 385-273-1100 Visit our website gocamputah.comor Facebook facebook.com/letsgocamputah To reserve a site call Recreation.gov reservation line 1-877-444-6777
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood within 10 miles of your destination and burning it on-site. For more info click here
Please note: Utah Recreation is not responsible for accident or injury to any person or property resulting from the use of this facility and is not responsible for the loss of money or valuables of any kind. The user of this permit assumes full and complete responsibility for the conduct and actions of all members in their party
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 46 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 36 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with picnic tables and campfire rings. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and campfire rings. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Firewood is available for purchase…”
- Firewood
- Sold here
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Mountain biking
- Climbing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 442nd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 5
- Fall color · reported 7 days ago, 1 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 41 of the 46 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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
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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 · 16
What you actually pay
“Cash, Check, or Scan & Pay 28 Single Sites - $33.00 , Capacity - 8 people + 1 vehicle 10 Double Sites - $67.00 , Capacity - 16 people + 2 vehicles 1 Triple Site - $96.00 , Capacity - 24 people + 3 vehicles Group Site…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $29.07–$84.57 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.
“Change and Cancellation Policies and Fees - Overnight and Day Use Facilities: To ensure fairness, reservation arrival or departure dates may not be changed beyond the booking window until 18 days after booking the reservation. - Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservat…” · this campground’s own no-show terms
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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
47 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 39 mapped sitesAll 47 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 40 of the 47 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. 46 of the 47 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LOWR | 023 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 213 ft | 171 ft | 237 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 024 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 213 ft | 139 ft | 145 ft | $214.94 |
| LOWR | 025 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 117 ft | 399 ft | 138 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 026 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 117 ft | 452 ft | 245 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 027 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 119 ft | 498 ft | 281 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 028 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 131 ft | 440 ft | 115 ft | $214.94 |
| LOWR | 029 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 538 ft | 169 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 030 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 74 ft | 584 ft | 126 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 031 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 105 ft | 502 ft | 65 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 032 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 105 ft | 565 ft | 149 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 033 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 97 ft | 749 ft | 345 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 034 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 150 ft | 625 ft | 284 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 035 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 97 ft | 750 ft | 404 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 036 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 130 ft | 674 ft | 136 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 037 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 130 ft | 782 ft | 150 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 038 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 176 ft | 592 ft | 168 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 039 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 138 ft | 342 ft | 284 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 040 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 138 ft | 428 ft | 221 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 041 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 201 ft | 270 ft | 452 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 042 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 201 ft | 377 ft | 410 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 043 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 322 ft | 324 ft | 199 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| LOWR | 044 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 422 ft | 73 ft | 322 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 20 ft | $29.07–$214.94 | |||
| S&P | Group Large, S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $29.07–$214.94 | |||
| S&P | Group Small, S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | $29.07–$214.94 | |||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 25 ft | $29.07–$214.94 | |||
| S&P | Triple, S&P | type not stated | 25 ft | $29.07–$214.94 | |||
| UPPR | 001 HOST | host pad | 20 ft | 318 ft | 450 ft | $29.07–$214.94 | |
| UPPR | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 169 ft | 254 ft | 491 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 003 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 105 ft | 227 ft | 323 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 105 ft | 184 ft | 228 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $29.07–$84.57 | |||
| UPPR | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $29.07–$84.57 | |||
| UPPR | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 156 ft | 92 ft | 156 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 011 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 134 ft | 48 ft | 298 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 012 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 134 ft | 111 ft | 184 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 013 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 144 ft | under 10 ft | 286 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 014 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 143 ft | 136 ft | 170 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 015 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 143 ft | 15 ft | 311 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 016 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 134 ft | 102 ft | 356 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 017 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 132 ft | 235 ft | 287 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 132 ft | 312 ft | 175 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 201 ft | 378 ft | 215 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 020 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 136 ft | 377 ft | 196 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 021 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 136 ft | 263 ft | 158 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 022 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 230 ft | 338 ft | 115 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
| UPPR | 789 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 156 ft | 89 ft | 109 ft | $29.07–$84.57 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 47 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Albion BasinWasatch National Forest · 2.9 mi
Spruces - Big CottonwoodWasatch National Forest · 3.1 miSpruces CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 3.2 mi
Jordan PinesWasatch National Forest · 3.7 mi
Tanners FlatWasatch National Forest · 6.4 mi
Granite Flat (Utah)Uinta National Forest · 9.3 miFrom I-215, take the 6200 South exit and travel a mile east to Wasatch Blvd. Take Wasatch Blvd a mile south to junction with Big Cottonwood Canyon/Highway 190. Make a left at the junction and travel up Big Cottonwood Canyon for 14 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Brighton, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 50°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°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
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
Redman 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 →