Flat Canyon
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 1412 on recreation.gov
- Season
- – October 31Closes October 31. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Flat Canyon Campground is located high on the Wasatch Plateau, at an elevation of 8,800 feet. The site is conveniently located near Electric Lake, where visitors enjoy boating and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
A trail leads from the campground to small Boulger Reservoir, directly below the site. Electric Lake is approximately one mile away. Boating, fishing, hiking, biking and scenic driving are popular activities in the area.
Facilities
The campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 50 people. Several single-family campsites are available within the campground as well. Picnic tables and fire rings are provided, as are vault toilets.
Natural Features
The campground is situated on a hillside above the highway. Hundreds of hazardous trees have been removed from the site, opening up the canopy and reducing shade to a minimum. Several large spruce trees remain, however, and grasses and summer wildflowers are abundant in the area.
What the agency tells you
The group site is available on a first-come, first-served basis for $5 per vehicle when the site is not reserved
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Horses are not allowed in the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 3
Click here for more information on the Manti-La Sal National Forest
There is no water available at this facility.
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
- 14 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- 12 of 14
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 12 of 15 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 283rd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 26 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:46 UTC
recreation.gov lists 12 of the 14 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.
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, $10 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 15:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 12 mapped sitesAll 15 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 12 of the 15 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 14 of the 15 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| FLAT | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 191 ft | 1,115 ft | 303 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 002 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 45 ft | 1,317 ft | 264 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 42 ft | 1,272 ft | 219 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 48 ft | 1,229 ft | 178 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 100 ft | 1,144 ft | 118 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 54 ft | 1,014 ft | 84 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 007 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 54 ft | 974 ft | 87 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 102 ft | 1,026 ft | 60 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 009 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 91 ft | 1,134 ft | 98 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 58 ft | 1,224 ft | 186 ft | $10 |
| FLAT | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 42 ft | 1,265 ft | 214 ft | $10 |
| GRP | 012 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 191 ft | 974 ft | 146 ft | $50 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | $10–$20 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $10–$20 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $10–$20 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It types it MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Gooseberry Creek CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 3.5 mi
Mammoth CabinManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.3 mi
Lake Canyon Rec AreaManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.5 miCleveland Reservoir CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.6 miLake Canyon CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.6 mi
Gooseberry ReservoirManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.8 miFrom Fairview, Utah, travel east on Highway 31 to Highway 264, then continue east on Highway 264 for four miles.
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 29°F, day 50°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical October night 29°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 moreOutside the published season
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
Flat Canyon is in Utah’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Burgess Owens (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →