Green River Campground is in Dinosaur National Monument. Similar to most other campgrounds in National Park’s and National Monuments, this park offers dry camping.
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| On the road to Green River Campground |
For people not tuned-in to camping lingo, dry camping means you don’t have any utilities at that campsite. In other words, no electric, no water and no sewer. Nothing.
Another way of thinking about it is to realize that dry camping turned Rosie, our 25 foot Airstream trailer, into something comparable to a tent. Well, maybe a very nice tent.
Utah was looking at some record breaking temperatures when we arrived. It was 97 outside while we were setting up and it was 97 inside Rosie. It did cool down to a comfortable “sleeping” temperature around 11p.m., but strong winds kicked up and I noticed the people in the Airstream trailers around us were taking down their awnings while I was doing the same with Rosie.
Clouds the next day kept the afternoon temperature below 95. As silly as it sounds, it was still too hot but not as hot as the day before.
Here are some specifics about this campground:
- Our site, along with all of the others, was dry camping without any utilities
- Our site was paved and level
- Roads in the campground were paved
- The campground had several bathrooms with flush toilets
- There wasn’t a shower facility in the campground
- Campers were allowed to run generators from 8 a.m. until 9 p.m.
Here is a random observation about dry camping in National Parks when the temperature is above 90. We couldn’t help but notice the large number of RVs running their generators. You also heard them and you could smell the exhaust all day long. If the purpose for this was to lessen pollution in the parks, let me suggest that this is a failure. Power connections at the campsites coming from a regulated power plant would do more to help with pollution than pretending the many generators in the campground are not part of the problem.
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| Dinosaur National Monument |
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| Dinosaur Bones |
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| Dinosaur National Monument |
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| Becky rode a raft on the Green River |
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