Bowery Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25From, per site
- Sites
- 4241 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bowery Creek Campground is located next to Fish Lake in the Fishlake National Forest of central Utah. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing and exploring local trails. View Bowery Creek Campground Map Recreation Fish Lake is Utah's largest natural mountain lake, covering 2,500 acres. It is famous for its 20-40 pound Mackinaw lake trout. Anglers also enjoy fishing for rainbow trout and splake. Boating, canoeing, swimming and scuba diving are popular activities. The 5-mile Pelican Canyon Trail begins in the campground. It leads through meadows and dense forests of spruce, pine and aspen as it climbs to the 11,633-foot Fish Lake Hightop. The popular Lakeshore National Recreation Trail extends around the eastern side of the lake. Hikers are rewarded with stunning lake views after climbing 900 feet in elevation. Keep reading
Facilities
The campground contains six group sites: three can accommodate up to 30 people each, the other three up to 20 people each. A group day-use picnic site for up to 100 people is located on-site. Several single-family sites are available as well. Most sites have lake views. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved. The lake is just a short walk below the site and across the road. Three resorts are located in the Fish Lake Basin, offering camping and fishing supplies, RV parks with hookups, cabin and boat rentals, marinas, gas, restaurants, groceries, laundry facilities and showers. The resorts are open from Memorial Day to Labor Day.
Natural Features
The campground sits at an elevation of 9,000 feet on a sagebrush-covered hillside above the valley floor, offering sweeping views of Fish Lake. Aspen and cottonwood trees forest the site.
Nearby Attractions
Johnson Valley Reservoir is just north of Fish Lake, offering additional fishing and boating opportunities.
What the agency tells you
This is NOT Bowery Haven Resorts Campground. This is a Forest Service campground named Bowery Creek located adjacent to the resort.
This is a high elevation facility; use caution when traveling from lower elevations, be prepared for inclement weather.
Street legal and non-street legal vehicles are allowed for access and egress only.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
There are no electricity, water or sewer hookups at the campground.
This is a 'pack it in-pack it out' facility. Please bring your own garbage bags. Dumpsters are available within Fishlake Basin.
Camping is limited to 16 days.
Any vehicles or trailers that can not fit in the designated site must be relocated to another site purchased at full site price. Check area map for available free parking.
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.
Discharging a firearm of any kind is prohibited: this includes BB guns, slingshots, paintball guns etc. Take these activities outside of the campground please.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 42 · 11 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- 41 of 42
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…as well. Most sites have lake views. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites have lake views. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs are paved.…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 70th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 6.9 km away
- Patchy color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 41 of the 42 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
One email when the season goes on sale, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25 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.
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 · 5
rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
42 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 41 mapped sitesAll 42 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 42 of the 42 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. 41 of the 42 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.
| DOUBLE | 035 | group standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 103 ft | 433 ftBowery Creek | 258 ft | $50–$75 | |
| DOUBLE | 036 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 98 ft | 316 ftBowery Creek | 137 ft | $50–$75 | |
| DOUBLE | 037 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 98 ft | 237 ftBowery Creek | 89 ft | $50–$75 | |
| DOUBLE | 038 | group standard nonelectric | 85 ft | 89 ft | 139 ftBowery Creek | 92 ft | $50–$75 | |
| DOUBLE | 039 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 89 ft | 157 ftBowery Creek | 23 ft | $50–$75 | |
| DOUBLE | 040 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 109 ft | 51 ftBowery Creek | 231 ft | $50–$75 | |
| DOUBLE | 043 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 66 ft | 58 ftBowery Creek | 247 ft | $50–$75 | |
| SING | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 359 ft | 238 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 56 ft | 378 ft | 182 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 63 ft | 358 ft | 122 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 005 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 79 ft | 280 ft | 147 ft | $25 |
| SING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | yes | 118 ft | 282 ft | 81 ft | $25 |
| SING | 007 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 123 ft | 303 ft | 152 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 009 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 82 ft | 516 ft | 226 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 010 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 54 ft | 561 ftBowery Creek | 270 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 011 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 54 ft | 569 ftBowery Creek | 316 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 012 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 84 ft | 544 ft | 382 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 64 ft | 550 ft | 144 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 016 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 64 ft | 488 ft | 142 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 154 ft | 399 ft | 94 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 018 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 154 ft | 338 ft | 204 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 019 | type not stated | 263 ft | 335 ft | ||||
| SING | 020 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 78 ft | 406 ftBowery Creek | 248 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 021 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 78 ft | 335 ftBowery Creek | 325 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 022 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 94 ft | 396 ftBowery Creek | 250 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 024 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 110 ft | 384 ftBowery Creek | 303 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 116 ft | 243 ftBowery Creek | 319 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 71 ft | 216 ftBowery Creek | 297 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 027 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 63 ft | 152 ftBowery Creek | 301 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 028 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 71 ft | 155 ftBowery Creek | 229 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 029 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 89 ft | 69 ftBowery Creek | 210 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 030 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 63 ft | 109 ftBowery Creek | 294 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 031 | standard nonelectric | 72 ft | 189 ft | 357 ftBowery Creek | 273 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 032 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 126 ft | 706 ftBowery Creek | 489 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 033 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 126 ft | 764 ftBowery Creek | 555 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 034 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 103 ft | 534 ftBowery Creek | 361 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 041 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 119 ftBowery Creek | 329 ft | $25 | |
| SING | 042 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 84 ft | 41 ftBowery Creek | 318 ft | $25 | |
| TRIPLE | 14 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 84 ft | 620 ft | 408 ft | $50–$75 | |
| TRIPLE | 23 | group standard nonelectric | 73 ft | 115 ft | 278 ftBowery Creek | 295 ft | $50–$75 | |
| TRIPLE | 8 | group standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 422 ft | 126 ft | $50–$75 | |
| Triple Site | 1 | group standard nonelectric | 70 ft | 255 ft | 32 ftBowery Creek | 55 ft | $50–$75 |
25 of 42 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Bowery Creek CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 1.4 mi
MackinawFishlake National Forest · 1.8 mi
Twin Creeks PicnicFishlake National Forest · 2.3 mi
Frying PanFishlake National Forest · 3.0 miMallard Bay Overflow Rec SiteFishlake National Forest · 3.8 mi
Paiute CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 4.0 miFrom Highway 24 northwest of Loa, Utah, take Highway 25 northeast 9.5 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fremont, UT
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
Bowery Creek is in Utah’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Celeste Maloy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →