Hanging Rock Campground
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 1 of the next 30 nights read 14:34 UTC
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 6All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Hanging Rock Campground is located just off of Highway 21 between the towns of Beaver and Minerville, UT. The campground has six campsites all located alongside the scenic Beaver River. Along with the scenery that the river provides, it also offers what many consider to be the best fising in Beaver County. Keep reading
Recreation
The Beaver River provides opportunity for year-round fishing. The Paiute ATV Trail and Beaver Bench Mountain Bike Trail System are located just down the road in Beaver, UT.
Facilities
Each site has a fire ring and picnic table. Sites 1, 2, 5, and 6 have pavilions.
Natural Features
Each campsite is located alongside the Beaver River. Views of the rocky, rolling hills can be seen all around. A short drive or hike in either direction will provide views of either the Mineral or Tushar Mountains.
What the agency tells you
The site does not have drinking water.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 6
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- 3 of 6 sites
Around the campground
- On the water
- River
- Birding
- Fishing
- Stargazing
- Swimming
- Tubing
- Water access
- Night sky · 167th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
Full this Saturdayread 14:34 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
OpenBookedNot reservable
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Every line of the receipt · 12
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $12 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 14:34 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 sites
All 6 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. 6 of the 6 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Little Cottonwood CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 18 miLittle Reservoir CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 21 miLittle Reservoir CamproundFishlake National Forest · 21 mi
Mahogany Cove CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 21 miTushar Lakeside CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 22 mi
Kents Lake CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 23 miHanging Rock Campground is located on the South side of Highway 21 between Beaver and Minersville, UT.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Minersville, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 72°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 16°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Hanging Rock 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 →
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 moneyCeleste MaloyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 2nd 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 Hanging Rock Campground, Cedar City Field Office, Utah
Dear Celeste Maloy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at Hanging Rock Campground, Cedar City Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 6 sites at Hanging Rock Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hanging Rock Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hanging Rock Campground. 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 Hanging Rock Campground (Cedar City Field Office, 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 Hanging Rock Campground, Cedar City Field Office, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Hanging Rock Campground, Cedar City Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 6 sites at Hanging Rock Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hanging Rock Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hanging Rock Campground. 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 Hanging Rock Campground (Cedar City Field Office, 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 Hanging Rock Campground, Cedar City Field Office, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at Hanging Rock Campground, Cedar City Field Office, Utah, and couldn’t. All 6 sites at Hanging Rock Campground are reservable, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 2 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,647 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. Hanging Rock Campground keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run Hanging Rock Campground. 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 Hanging Rock Campground (Cedar City Field Office, Utah) via campanac.com