Bridges Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $5From, per site
- Sites
- 97 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Bridges Campground is located in beautiful Huntington Canyon, along the Huntington Canyon National Scenic Byway on Utah Highway 31. It is situated at an elevation of approximately 8,700 feet. Many recreational activities are available, including hiking, biking, scenic driving, and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities include fishing, hunting, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, rock climbing and scenic driving. Huntington Creek is a Blue Ribbon fishery, offering high quality fishing for brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. The 4-mile Left Fork of the Huntington National Recreation Trail is nearby and open to hikers and horseback riders. The 10-mile Fish Creek Trail, for hiking, biking and horseback riding is also close by. Although horses are not allowed in the campground, two hitching racks are provided just across the highway.
Facilities
The campground offers one group campsite that can accommodate groups of up to 30 people. Four single-family campsites are also available. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water or electricity. There are no garbage services offered within the campground, so be prepared to "pack it in and pack it out". Roads and parking spurs are dirt.
Natural Features
Large spruce trees and aspens cover the campground, offering plentiful shade. Huntington Creek runs alongside the campground. The canyon area has numerous lakes and streams, vibrant summer wildflowers, colorful fall foliage and abundant wildlife.
Nearby Attractions
The Huntington Canyon National Scenic Byway is part of the 86-mile Energy Loop. It offers stunning mountain and lake views as it tops 10,000 feet in elevation. The historic Stuart Guard Station Visitor Center is nearby, offering a glimpse of the 1930s life of a ranger and his family who once lived there. Exhibits of Civilian Conservation Corps projects and original equipment are on display. Area information is available as well.
What the agency tells you
No drinking water available; please bring your own
No livestock allowed
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information on the Manti-La Sal National Forest
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
- 9 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 7 of 9 sites
- Campfires
- 7 of 9 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 7 of 14 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…Vault toilets are provided, but there is no drinking water or electricity. There are no garbage services…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 248th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 23 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:27 UTC
recreation.gov lists 7 of the 9 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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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.
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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, $5 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:27 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 14 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 9 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Main | 1 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 95 ft | 555 ftHuntington Creek | $5 |
| Main | 2 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 461 ftHuntington Creek | $5 |
| Main | 3 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 51 ft | 410 ftHuntington Creek | $5 |
| Main | 4 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $5 | ||
| Main | A | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 349 ft | 212 ftHuntington Creek | $40–$50 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | $5–$20 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | 407 ftHuntington Creek | $5–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | 484 ftHuntington Creek | $5–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $5–$20 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $5–$20 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $5–$20 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay1 | type not stated | $5–$20 | |||
| 5 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 137 ft | 47 ftHuntington Creek | $5 | |
| 6 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 137 ft | 33 ftHuntington Creek | $5 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Chute GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 0.6 mi
Little Rock CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 1.0 mi
Chute Group CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 1.1 mi
Old Folks FlatManti-La Sal National Forest · 1.5 mi
Big Rock GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 3.3 mi
Forks of HuntingtonManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.0 miFrom Huntington, Utah, travel north on Utah Highway 31 for 23 miles, to the campground. It is on the west side of Highway 31, at the mouth of Day Canyon.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Clear Creek, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 22°F, day 48°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 2°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
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
Bridges 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 →