Duck Creek
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $30–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 95All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Duck Creek Campground is located 25 miles east of Cedar City, Utah. Visitors enjoy fishing in Duck Creek Pond and nearby Navajo Lake, exploring the Markagunt OHV Trail System and the many miles of non-motorized trails. Nearby sites to see are Cascade Falls, Cedar Breaks National Monument, the Ice Cave and Mammoth Caves. It is the perfect place to stay if your plans include visiting Bryce and Zions National Parks. This picturesque spot rests beneath a sheltering canopy of ponderosa pine and aspen; it provides easy access to several recreational activities and breathtaking scenery. The Duck Creek Visitor Center provides useful information to help visitors make the most of their experience on the Dixie National Forest. Keep reading
Recreation
Duck Creek Pond offers great fishing for rainbow, brook, brown and cutthroat trout. The Markagunt ATV Trail System can be accessed from within the campground, offering about 300 miles of ATV/OHV routes and trails for riders of all skill levels. The Virgin River Rim Trail is a very popular 32 mile trail that skirts the Virgin River Rim with views of Zions National Park in the distance and the Virgin River Rim. The trail can be accessed in several locations and is within a few minute drive from the the campground. This trail is a non-motorized trail and enjoyed by bicyclist, horses and foot travel. There are many sites in the nearby area such as Cedar Breaks National Monument about a 15 minute drive from the campground and Bryce Canyon National Park approx 50 miles to the east. The Duck Creek Visitor Center is just across the road from the campground and will provide you with all the area information and local attractions such as Cascade Falls, Mammoth and Ice Caves, and excellent fishing at Navajo lake and Panguitch lake.
Facilities
Duck Creek offers a variety of campsites for families and groups alike. Flush and vault toilets are provided, as is drinking water from Memorial Day through mid-September. An amphitheater with a covered stage and plentiful bench seating is located in the campground. There is a OHV parking area that is located on the northeast corner in Loop D between campsites 89 and 90. OHV's including street legal are allowed to ride from your campsite to the trail located in the D loop and back to your campsite only. Joy riding is not allowed in the campground. OHV's are only allowed in the C, D and E Loops. A and B loops are closed to all OHV's including street legal. The Duck Creek Visitor Center is just across the road from the campground with trail maps and information on the surrounding scenic area. There is a dump station with potable and non-potable water, drinking water spigots are scattered through out the campground. There are no hook-ups to the water so please make sure you fill your trailer before you set up camp at the dump station located at the entrance of the campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in Aspen and Douglas Fir tree stands with several old growth Ponderosa Pines that are 200 to 500 years old, Which is adjacent to Duck Creek Pond that you can walk to from the campground at an elevation of 8,400 feet. The area is rich in volcanic rock fields that orginated from underground lava tubes.
Nearby Attractions
Restaurants, cabin rentals, groceries, fuel are are available located in Duck Creek Village two miles east of the campground. Small aluminum fishing boat rentals, a boat dock, rustic cabin lodging are available at nearby Navajo Lake Lodge which is located on the northwest shore of Navajo Lake a short 6 miles from the campground. Cedar Breaks National Monument is 10 miles away, with hiking trails, guided tours and breathtaking scenery. Adjacent to Cedar Breaks National Monument is the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness Area, where hikers will find miles of trails including the Twisted Forest trail that has a stand of ancient bristlecone pine some of which can live up to 5,000 years. Bryce Canyon National Park is a 35 minute drive to the east, Zions National Park is an hour drive to the south. The Dixie National Forest offers endless trails both motorized and non-motorized along with high altitude fishing lakes and streams. Come Stay and Play!
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
No showers or hookups at this campground
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
OHV/ATV's including street legal are only allowed ingress and egress in Loops C, D and E. You are only allowed to ride from your campsite to the trailhead in the back of loop D and back to your campsite. Joy riding in the campground is not permitted.
For information about ATV policies and trail systems, please call the Cedar City Ranger District at 435-865-3200
Drinking water is only available from Memorial Day through Labor Day.
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Click here to learn more about the Dixie National Forest
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.CedarCity@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 95 · 4 group, 3 cabin
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 75 ft
- Paved pads
- 39 of 95
- Accessible sites
- 18
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 95 campsite records, FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 4 of 95 campsite records / ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 95 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 4 of 95 campsite records, DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 1 of 95 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 3 of 95 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Amphitheater
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Caving
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Visitor center
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 199th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 18 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $30–$60 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 Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
95 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 95 mapped sitesAll 95 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. 92 of the 95 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.
| A | 001 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 47 ft | 1,082 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 002 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 47 ft | 1,125 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 003 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 92 ft | 1,214 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 121 ft | 1,315 ft | $30–$60 |
| A | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 64 ft | 1,441 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 97 ft | 1,526 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 007 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 64 ft | 1,493 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 008 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 126 ft | 1,618 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 009 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 97 ft | 1,579 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 010 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 78 ft | 1,684 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 011 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 87 ft | 1,656 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 012 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 87 ft | 1,740 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 013 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 1,829 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 014 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 78 ft | 1,749 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 84 ft | 1,898 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 016 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 102 ft | 1,848 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 017 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 96 ft | 1,993 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 018 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 78 ft | 2,074 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 78 ft | 2,089 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 139 ft | 2,041 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 021 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,929 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,880 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 023 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 1,796 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 95 ft | 1,874 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 025 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 95 ft | 1,782 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 026 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 93 ft | 1,614 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 027 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 1,694 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 028 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 1,621 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 029 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 81 ft | 1,530 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 030 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 92 ft | 1,542 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 47 ft | 1,451 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 032 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 92 ft | 1,454 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 033 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 44 ft | 1,405 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 034 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 44 ft | 1,363 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 035 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 97 ft | 1,235 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 036 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 85 ft | 1,146 ft | $30–$60 | |
| A | 037 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 85 ft | 1,065 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 038 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 66 ft | 910 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 039 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 66 ft | 845 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 040 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 79 ft | 787 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 041 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 153 ft | 636 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 042 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 79 ft | 748 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 043 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 93 ft | 613 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 044 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 129 ft | 468 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 045 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 124 ft | 374 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 046 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 124 ft | 393 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 047 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 175 ft | 605 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 048 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 93 ft | 650 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 049 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 733 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 050 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 98 ft | 744 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 051 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 86 ft | 805 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 052 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 86 ft | 856 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 053 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 80 ft | 867 ft | $30–$60 | |
| B | 054 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 158 ft | 1,029 ft | $30–$60 | |
| C | 055 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 35 ft | 1,191 ft | $30–$60 | |
| C | 056 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 35 ft | 1,156 ft | $30–$60 | |
| C | 057 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 112 ft | 1,046 ft | $30–$60 | |
| C | 058 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 134 ft | 956 ft | $30–$60 | |
| C | 059 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 106 ft | 908 ft | $30–$60 | |
| C | 060 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 171 ft | 922 ft | $30–$60 |
| C | 061 | shelter nonelectric | 50 ft | 164 ft | 1,091 ft | ||
| C | 062 | shelter nonelectric | 75 ft | yes | 128 ft | 1,053 ft | |
| C | 063 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 128 ft | 1,146 ft | $30–$60 |
| C | 065 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 92 ft | 1,247 ft | $30–$60 |
| C | 067 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 102 ft | 1,272 ft | $30–$60 |
| C | 070 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 102 ft | 1,274 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 064 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 89 ft | 1,304 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 066 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 92 ft | 1,338 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 068 | standard nonelectric | 68 ft | yes | 102 ft | 1,374 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 069 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 102 ft | 1,376 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 071 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 106 ft | 1,616 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 072 | shelter nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 104 ft | 1,567 ft | |
| D | 079 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 123 ft | 1,586 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 080 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 126 ft | 1,701 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 082 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 129 ft | 1,736 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 083 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 1,663 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 084 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 75 ft | 1,738 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 085 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 104 ft | 1,742 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 086 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 133 ft | 1,680 ft | $30–$60 |
| D | 087 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 106 ft | 1,449 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 088 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 106 ft | 1,419 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 089 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 98 ft | 1,309 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 090 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 98 ft | 1,226 ft | $30–$60 | |
| D | 091 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | yes | 89 ft | 1,269 ft | $30–$60 |
| E | 073 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 80 ft | 1,587 ft | $30–$60 | |
| E | 074 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 80 ft | 1,659 ft | $30–$60 | |
| E | 075 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 98 ft | 1,741 ft | $30–$60 | |
| E | 076 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 119 ft | 1,801 ft | $30–$60 | |
| E | 077 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 82 ft | 1,688 ft | $30–$60 | |
| E | 078 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 82 ft | 1,671 ft | $30–$60 | |
| E | 081 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 147 ft | 1,628 ft | $30–$60 | |
| PICN | Duck Creek Group | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 195 ft | 1,457 ft | $100 | |
| PONP | Ponderosa Group | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 195 ft | 1,329 ft | $100 | |
| RND | Round-up Group | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 167 ft | 1,321 ft | $100 | |
| WAGO | Wagon Train | group standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 217 ft | 640 ft | $100 |
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.
25 of 95 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Spruces Campground (Dixie NF)Dixie National Forest · 4.9 mi
Navajo Lake CampgroundDixie National Forest · 5.7 mi
TE-AHDixie National Forest · 7.1 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 10 mi
Panguitch LakeDixie National Forest · 13 miTake Highway 14 from Cedar City, Utah, 28 miles east to Duck Creek campground. Campground turnoff will be on the left hand side of the highway, before you reach Duck Creek Village.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Alton, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 58°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
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
Duck 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 →