JENSEN, Uintah County — The lottery is now open for noncommercial river permits for the high-use season on the Green and Yampa rivers in Dinosaur National Monument.

Applicants can access and submit the form by logging on to recreation.gov.

The open lottery season runs through 10 a.m. Jan. 31 . The lottery allows boaters to compete for 300 permits.

In recent years, the monument has received more than 6,700 applications for the permits. Boaters can either apply at recreation.gov, or they can download an application form at nps.gov/dino/planyourvisit/boating-and-rafting.htm and mail it with a postmark before the deadline. Late applications will not be accepted. This will be the final year that the monument will accept paper applications.

Like last year, boaters can file only one application, but they may choose up to four possible launch date/river choices on the application. The Yampa and Green rivers are combined in one drawing system.

Applicants will be notified by email on Feb. 16 if their lottery submission was successful. Winners have until 10 p.m. on Feb. 28 to accept their launch date and pay for it, or it will be revoked.

At 8 a.m. March 1, all unclaimed high-use multi-day, Split Mountain day-use and low-use season multi-day permits will become available on recreation.gov.

Preference will no longer be given to those who applied but failed to secure a river permit through the lottery system. Boaters who are able to acquire a permit online will have to immediately pay the $185 multi-day permit fee or $20 daily fee and an application fee of $15 to secure their permit. The application fee is required regardless of whether the boater applied for the lottery.

For more information on the river permit lottery or permit process, visit recreation.gov or call 970-374-2468 between 8 a.m. and noon Monday-Friday.