Clover Springs Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 30 nights read 14:24 UTC
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Overview - Camping is allowed in designated campground sites only. - Maximum of 2 vehicles per single site (passenger, RV, or trailers), except at Site # 7-9. Refer below for details. - For each day paid, your permit is good until 2:00 PM the next day. - Individual sites are occupied on a first-come, first-served basis, except Group Site #7 which requires a reservation. - There is no trash collection. Pack out what you bring in. Do not dispose of trash in fire rings or vault toilets. - Quiet hours are between 10 PM and 6 AM. Keep reading
- Do not leave unattended personal property within the campground for a period of more than 24 hours. - The campground is adjacent to private lands. Please respect private property and posted signs. Keep all gates closed. - Group Site #7 is limited to 50 people and the daily fee is $45. You must pay for day-use of this site. Parking is limited to 10 vehicles total (including RVs, passenger vehicles, and trailers) in the two parking areas at the group site. Please do not park in the campground road or other campsites.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Full this Saturdayread 14:24 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
1 campground has sites open within 30 miles, read 16:49 UTC. See them
OpenBookedNot reservable
Every one of the 6 sites on offer is taken this Saturday. 1 is free on Mon, Oct 19. read 14:24 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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, $12 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 1
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:49 UTC
- Simpson Springs CampgroundSalt Lake Field Office · 25 mi · 4 of 21 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 14:24 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 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. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| North | 10 | standard nonelectric | 162 ft | 870 ft | $12 |
| North | 11 | standard nonelectric | 162 ft | 986 ft | $12 |
| North | 7 | group standard nonelectric | 257 ft | 194 ft | $45 |
| North | 8 | standard nonelectric | 269 ft | 519 ft | $12 |
| North | 9 | standard nonelectric | 269 ft | 597 ft | $12 |
| South | 1 | standard nonelectric | 123 ft | 167 ft | $12 |
| South | 2 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 181 ft | $12 |
| South | 3 | standard nonelectric | 122 ft | 52 ft | $12 |
| South | 4 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 48 ft | $12 |
| South | 5 | standard nonelectric | 83 ft | 165 ft | $12 |
| South | 6 | standard nonelectric | 110 ft | 37 ft | $12 |
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Boy ScoutWasatch National Forest · 10 mi
Loop Campground (UT)Wasatch National Forest · 10 mi
Upper NarrowsWasatch National Forest · 10 mi
Lower Narrows CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 10 miIntake CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 11 miThe campground is located in Tooele County, west of the town of Rush Valley. From Salt Lake City, drive west on I-80 to exit 99. Drive south on SR 36 through Tooele and Stockton. Continue driving south until the junction of State Route 199. Turn west at the junction of 199. The campground is on the south side of the road in the foothills of the Oniqui Mountains.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Rush Valley, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 62°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 19°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Clover Springs Campground 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 →
Who can change it · 3
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- The member who votes the moneyCeleste MaloyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn R. CurtisU.S. Senator · Utah
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike LeeU.S. Senator · Utah
Read the draft, or change the wording
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Clover Springs Campground, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah
Dear Celeste Maloy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Clover Springs Campground, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 11 sites at Clover Springs Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 6 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Clover Springs Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Clover Springs Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Clover Springs Campground (Salt Lake Field Office, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Clover Springs Campground, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Clover Springs Campground, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 11 sites at Clover Springs Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 6 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Clover Springs Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Clover Springs Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Clover Springs Campground (Salt Lake Field Office, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at Clover Springs Campground, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Clover Springs Campground, Salt Lake Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 11 sites at Clover Springs Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 6 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Clover Springs Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Clover Springs Campground. I’m asking you to put it to the Bureau of Land Management in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about Clover Springs Campground (Salt Lake Field Office, Utah) via campanac.com