U.S. Forest Service · Dixie National Forest · UT
Dean Gardner Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
6,790 ftElevation
157 ftWater · an unnamed stream
9.9 miNW of Toquerville, UT
28%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 357th darkest of 458 in UT
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
Located near Pine Valley Wilderness and adjacent to Pine Valley Reservoir , this new campground offers campsites that are shaded by large Ponderosa pine trees. Horse riding, fishing, and hiking are popular in this area. Bike riding opportunities and horse trails are nearby. Several trails including the Whipple , Brown's Point , and Gardner Peak lead into the Pine Valley Wilderness area. Keep reading
Facilities
21 single campsites (up to 8 people) with picnic tables, fire pits, and tent pads 3 double sites (up to 16 people) with picnic tables, fire pits, and tent pads Drinking water (Memorial Day-Labor Day) Vault toilet No garbage disposal, please pack it out
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…Drinking water (Memorial Day-Labor Day) Vault toilet No garbage disposal, please pack it out”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…picnic tables, fire pits, and tent pads Drinking water (Memorial Day-Labor Day) Vault toilet No garbage…”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir
Source: Stated in the agency description
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 17, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 4
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
For current pricing and availability, visit www.recreation.gov
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Pine Valley Guard StationDixie National Forest · 0.4 mi
Pine Valley Recreation AreaDixie National Forest · 0.6 miEffie Beckstrom East Group CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.6 miEffie Beckstrom West Group CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.6 miMitt Moody CampgroundDixie National Forest · 1.1 miEbenezer Bryce CampgroundDixie National Forest · 1.3 mi
Pine Valley Guard StationDixie National Forest · 0.4 miPine Valley Recreation AreaDixie National Forest · 0.6 miEffie Beckstrom East Group CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.6 miEffie Beckstrom West Group CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.6 miMitt Moody CampgroundDixie National Forest · 1.1 miEbenezer Bryce CampgroundDixie National Forest · 1.3 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Today63°Mostly Sunny
Tonight43°Mostly Cloudy8% rain
Sunday59°Partly Sunny then Slight Chance Light Rain24% rain
Sunday Night42°Partly Cloudy6% rain
NWS forecast for Pine Valley, UT
Source: National Weather Service, SLC forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
100°32°10°
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.
Measured at: CEDAR CITY, UT (USC00421259), 29 miles away and 700 ft lower
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Dean Gardner 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 17, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Pine Valley, UT, 0.2 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.