Gooseberry Admin Site Cabins
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 1All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Gooseberry Administrative Site Cabins are located just 18 miles from Salina Utah. These historic structures were used as Forest Service summer headquarters from 1907 to 1960. Today, the site is used for family reunions, group events, scout and church groups, and youth camps. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities in the area include off-road vehicle riding, fishing, hiking, biking, horseback riding and wildlife watching. The Great Western Trail runs nearby; two trailheads can be easily accessed near the site.
Facilities
This unique facility contains three bunk cabins, one with propane heating, a recreation hall, kitchen and bathhouse. The rec hall has a fireplace, tables and chairs. The kitchen is equipped with a large propane cooking range and oven, three small propane refrigerators, three sinks, a prep and serving area, hot water and two outdoor grills. The bathhouse has flush toilets, sinks and hot showers. Fifty single beds with mattresses are provided. Guests must bring their own linens or bedding, as well as dishes, utensils and cookware. A propane generator is available for electricity and lights for a couple of hours in the morning and evening. Several picnic tables and a campfire ring are located outside. Guests are required to keep the facility clean during their stay and clean up prior to leaving. Maid service is not available. A volunteer host is on-site. Check-out time is by 11 a.m. and check-in time is after 2 p.m.
Natural Features
Gooseberry is situated in the Gooseberry drainage south of Interstate 70 in central Utah at an approximate elevation of 8,000 feet. Dense stands of aspens forest the area, offering shade and beautiful autumn color.
What the agency tells you
This site does not honor America the Beautiful passes
Maximum site capacity is 250 people; only 50 beds are provided
Trailer parking is limited to a few locations
Everything else this campground posts · 5
Off-road vehicles are not permitted
No smoking allowed inside buildings
Pets should remain leashed or caged and kept outside buildings
There is no maid service. Guests are required to keep the facility clean during their stay and then clean up prior to leaving
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
- 1 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…two outdoor grills. The bathhouse has flush toilets, sinks and hot showers. Fifty single beds with…”
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- “The bathhouse has flush toilets, sinks and hot showers.”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 134th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 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. 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.
| GOOSEBERRY ADMIN SITE CABINS | C01 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 218 ft | 123 ft | $300 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Gooseberry CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 0.3 mi
Mt Terrill Guard StationFishlake National Forest · 6.3 mi
Tasha EquestrianFishlake National Forest · 12 mi
Paiute CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 13 mi
Frying PanFishlake National Forest · 13 mi
Bowery CreekFishlake National Forest · 16 miFrom Salina, Utah, take I-70 eastbound about 7 miles to Gooseberry Road exit 63. Go south on County Road 640 for 10 miles to the Gooseberry Administrative Site on the right side of the road, just beyond Gooseberry Campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Salina, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 33°F, day 55°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°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
Gooseberry Admin Site Cabins 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 →