Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area RV rental from Salt Lake City

Flaming Gorge at a glance

Read from the park’s own pages on 2026-09-19. Limits change, so check the source before you book.

Distance from Salt Lake City

205 miles

The Greens Lake Campground page on the same forest repeats the figure. No agency publishes a drive time, and 205 miles is further from Salt Lake City than any of the five national parks except Zion.

Drive time

Not published

No source publishes one.

Tightest published length that bars a vehicle

Not published

No road here is closed by length alone.

Listings measured near Salt Lake City

610

610 publish a length, 86 a height, 80 a width.

What is closed to you, in the park's own words

Quoted rather than paraphrased, because a paraphrase of a size limit is how a foot goes missing between the source and the page you read it on.

Campgrounds, and what each one will take

Where a column reads not published, no page published by the agency that runs this ground states a figure. That is the source being silent, not this page being incomplete.

• Mustang Ridge Campground. 69 sites and every one of them publishes a Max Vehicle Length, from 25 ft to 80 ft. That is the longest published site anywhere in this data set and the most completely documented campground at Flaming Gorge. Showers on site, and the Forest Service points campers to Antelope Flat, Deer Run, Firefighters or Lodgepole to dump.
• Lucerne Campground. The biggest campground at Flaming Gorge and the least completely described. 126 sites, of which 96 publish a length and 30 publish nothing at all. Of the 96 that do, 67 are rated 60 ft and 27 at 35 ft, so two thirds of the measurable sites take a 60 ft rig. It also has the longest water season in the recreation area.
• Firefighters Memorial Campground. 60 sites, all publishing a length, from 25 ft to 60 ft, with 26 of them at 45 ft. That 45 ft band is the single largest cluster at Flaming Gorge and it is comfortably longer than anything in this rental market. Three miles from the reservoir rather than on it, which is why it fills last.
• Antelope Flat Campground. 50 sites, all publishing a length, none above 40 ft and 16 of them at exactly 25 ft. On the shore at 6,000 feet, reached by a gravel road, with a fee dump station and a boat ramp. The Forest Service warns that the area is known for high winds and sudden thunderstorms.
• Red Canyon Campground. The tightest set in the recreation area and the one to check before you drive 205 miles. Eight sites, four of them capped at 18 ft, one at 20, two at 22 and a single site at 40 ft. A 25 ft Class C, the most common drivable rental size in this market, is excluded from seven of the eight.

Numbers that do not agree, and who to ask

Both positions are printed. Neither is averaged into a figure no source supports, and neither is quietly dropped.

Questions no official page answers

These are the questions a renter asks that no official page answers. Each one was checked rather than assumed, and a gap is recorded as a gap. Filling one with a plausible number would be the most useful-looking lie on the page.

• Any RV length limit on any road in the recreation area. UDOT's only entries for the two state routes in are an escort ladder that begins at 95 ft of length and 14 ft of width, and an axle-weight ban on the dam itself. No Ashley National Forest page publishes a length, width or height limit for a road here. The limit at Flaming Gorge is the pad you book, not the road you take, which is the reverse of every Utah national park on this site.
• Hookups. Read on 2026-09-19, the recreation.gov records for Red Canyon, Antelope Flat and Firefighters Memorial each carry a no-hookup line, and the Forest Service page for every campground in the recreation area lists none either. No agency page says anywhere at Flaming Gorge has power, water or sewer at a site, and none says outright that nowhere does. Treat the whole recreation area as dry and confirm the one campground you book on 435-784-3445.
• The reservation window. The recreation.gov records for these campgrounds publish a four-day cut-off and a 16-day stay limit and no reservation window at all, where the Mirror Lake Highway campgrounds in the same booking system publish four months. Read the opening date off the booking page rather than assuming six months, because nothing official states one.
• Whether the recreation area pass is charged on top of a campsite fee. The Ashley National Forest passes page prices the pass at $5 a day, $15 a week and $35 a year and does not say what a paid campsite includes. The same page says the pass is not available for purchase online, so the answer matters on a Friday evening when the nearest vendors are a hardware store in Green River and two resorts at Dutch John.
• A drive time from Salt Lake City. The Forest Service states 205 miles on two campground pages and no time on either, and states no distance at all on the recreation area's own page. At 205 miles this is a longer drive than four of the five Utah national parks and no agency says how long.
• What 30 of Lucerne's 126 sites will take, and 9 of Canyon Rim's 17. They publish no Max Vehicle Length. Canyon Rim is the worse case, because the eight sites that do publish one run from 26 ft to 65 ft, so the missing nine could be anything. Flaming Gorge Ranger District, 435-784-3445.

Sources

• US Forest Service, Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area
• US Forest Service, Ashley National Forest passes
• US Forest Service, Red Canyon Campground
• Recreation.gov, Mustang Ridge Campground
• UDOT, secondary highways with additional restrictions

Salt Lake City RV Rental is a finder. It owns no RVs and is not affiliated with the National Park Service, the Utah Office of Tourism or UDOT. Park rules change between seasons, so read the source before you book.