Avintaquin Campground
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:17 UTC
- A night
- $5When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 17In the agency’s record
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Avintaquin Campground is located atop scenic Indian Canyon, just off Highway 191 between Duchesne and Helper. Visitors come to the area for its scenic beauty, wildlife viewing opportunities and to explore the Reservation Ridge Scenic Backway. Keep reading
Recreation
Reservation Ridge Scenic Backway accesses the campground. This dirt road is open to off-road vehicles, mountain biking and hiking, and offers beautiful views of the surrounding area. Additional hiking trails are in the area. Avintaquin Creek and numerous springs are nearby.
Facilities
The campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 50 people, with several picnic tables, a campfire ring, grills, utility tables and parking for 10 vehicles. Several single-family sites are available, each equipped with a picnic table, campfire ring and utility table. Vault toilets are available, but there is no running water. Campers must bring their own supply.
Natural Features
The campground is situated among towering Douglas fir trees at an elevation of 9,000 feet. A variety of wildlife, including mule deer and elk, make a home around Avintaquin.
What the agency tells you
No running water available; campers must bring their own supply
Single sites are allowed 1 vehicle, 1 RV/trailer, 1 tent, 8 people
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 17 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 48 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…table, campfire ring and utility table. Vault toilets are available, but there is no running water.…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…table. Vault toilets are available, but there is no running water. Campers must bring their own supply. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 246th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:17 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Avintaquin Campground closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Maple CanyonUinta National Forest · 54 mi · 19 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 15:17 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
17 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 17 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. 17 of the 17 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| AVINTAQUIN | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 114 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 005 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 113 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 92 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 173 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 009 | type not stated | 30 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| AVINTAQUIN | 010 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 319 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 011 | type not stated | 30 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| AVINTAQUIN | 012 | type not stated | 30 ft | 1.5 mi | $20 | |
| AVINTAQUIN | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 93 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 168 ft | 1.5 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 168 ft | 1.6 mi | $5 |
| AVINTAQUIN | 017 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 125 ft | 1.6 mi | $5 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Price Canyon Recreation AreaPrice Field Office · 11 miJackson Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 13 mi
Aspen Grove (Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, UT)Uinta National Forest · 21 miAspen Grove CampgroundUinta National Forest · 22 mi
Soldier CreekUinta National Forest · 24 mi
Soldier Creek Long TermUinta National Forest · 24 miFrom Duchesne, Utah: Take Highway 191 southwest about 30 miles to the top of Indian Canyon. Turn west on Reservation Ridge Road and travel 1 mile to the campground.
From Helper, Utah: Take Highway 191 northeast for 18 miles. Turn west on Reservation Ridge Road and travel 1 mile 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 Helper, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 33°F, day 54°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 33°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Avintaquin 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 →