Creek Pasture Group Site
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 30 of the next 30 nights read 16:57 UTC
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Creek Pasture Group Site at Creek Pasture Campground is ideal for large groups wishing to recreate in the Indian Creek area, or camp close to the Bears Ears National Monument Indian Creek Unit OR the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park. The Indian Creek area is generally primitive and undeveloped, with few services. The Indian Creek area is a popular filming area because of its classical "western" look. Both commercial advertisements and major motion pictures have been filmed in the area. Keep reading
Recreation
The Indian Creek area has gained international recognition for its extraordinary natural beauty and numerous recreational opportunities. Spectacular landscapes along with rich archeological resources provide visitors with an abundance of recreational opportunities. These opportunities include: hiking, biking, cultural resource viewing, camping, off-highway vehicle (OHV) use, rock climbing, horseback riding, wildlife viewing, sightseeing and scenic photography. These features attract visitors from around the world, who recreate both privately and by hiring commercial outfitters.
Facilities
The Creek Pasture Group Site is located along the northwestern edge of the Creek Pasture Campground and features tent and trailer space, picnic tables, a fire ring, a vault toilet, and a shade structure. The site can hold approximately 20 vehicles, with a vehicle and trailer counting as two vehicles. There is no drinking water provided.
Natural Features
Indian Creek consists of a broad, gently rolling valley bracketed by the sandstone cliffs of Harts Point to the northeast and Bridger Jack Mesa to the southwest. The valley is bisected by both the major thoroughfare of Highway 211 and Indian Creek itself. From Highway 211 the interior of the valley is a classic western landscape with panoramic vistas, towering sandstone cliffs and spires, and rolling grasslands.
Nearby Attractions
Creek Pasture is close to the Needles District of Canyonlands National Park and the Bears Ears National Monument Indian Creek Unit.
What the agency tells you
There are limited services in the Indian Creek corridor. Make sure to bring plenty of water and supplies.
Wood collection is not allowed, bring your own firewood.
Gusty winds are possible so always secure your tents and camping gear.
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Wildlife frequent the sites; never leave food out.
Summer thunderstorms can cause flash flooding and gusty winds; stay aware of current weather conditions.
Annual, Senior and Access passes do not apply to group site fees.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 group, 1 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Little
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…space, picnic tables, a fire ring, a vault toilet, and a shade structure. The site can hold…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…and trailer counting as two vehicles. There is no drinking water provided. Natural Features Indian Creek consists of…”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Historic site
- Mountain biking
- OHV riding
- Climbing
- Scenic drives
Full this Saturdayread 16:57 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBooked
The one site on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday, and on four midweek nights after it as well. read 16:57 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 13
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 16:57 UTC · rules read Oct 1, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Creek Pasture Group Site | Creek Pasture Group Site | group shelter nonelectric | 7.5 mi | $65 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Creek Pasture CampgroundBears Ears National Monument · 0.3 mi
Superbowl CampgroundBears Ears National Monument · 1.8 mi
Superbowl Group SiteBears Ears National Monument · 1.9 mi
Hamburger Rock CampgroundBears Ears National Monument · 2.4 mi
Indian Creek Falls Group SiteBears Ears National Monument · 3.3 mi
Canyonlands National Park Needles District CampgroundCanyonlands National Park · 6.9 miTurn west off US 191 onto Highway 211 and travel approximately 27 miles. The turn off to the campground is on the north side of the highway. It is located approximately 7.5 miles southeast of the Canyonlands National Park visitor's center and 14.5 miles northwest of Newspaper Rock. The group site is on the north end of the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for La Sal, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 70°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 17°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 · a letter you can send
What threatens this place
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Who answers for this land
Creek Pasture Group Site 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 →
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 moneyMike KennedyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 3rd 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 Creek Pasture Group Site, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. I tried to camp at Creek Pasture Group Site, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Creek Pasture Group Site are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Creek Pasture Group Site keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Creek Pasture Group Site. 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 Creek Pasture Group Site (Bears Ears National Monument, 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 Creek Pasture Group Site, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Creek Pasture Group Site, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Creek Pasture Group Site are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Creek Pasture Group Site keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Creek Pasture Group Site. 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 Creek Pasture Group Site (Bears Ears National Monument, 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 Creek Pasture Group Site, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Creek Pasture Group Site, Bears Ears National Monument, Utah, and couldn’t. All 1 sites at Creek Pasture Group Site are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, the one site recreation.gov was offering there was already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Creek Pasture Group Site keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Creek Pasture Group Site. 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 Creek Pasture Group Site (Bears Ears National Monument, Utah) via campanac.com