Kellettville Recreation Area (PA)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 18All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 15 notices
In the agency’s own words
Half of Forest County, where Tionesta Lake is located, is preserved as public lands. The region is known as one of Pennsylvania's best big game regions and is home to a remarkable variety of wildlife. Campers come to the Kellettville Recreation Area Campground to enjoy the forested area along Tionesta Creek. The area is ideal for fishing, hunting as well as scenic hiking. Tionesta is a culturally rich region with a long history. The Seneca Indian tribe named this area "where the water separates the land." Nearly a century ago, narrow gauge railways dotted the surrounding countryside, hauling out virgin timber from the hillsides. Keep reading
Recreation
In-season hunting, fishing, hiking canoeing and kayaking, are all available from Kellettville. Visitors interested in wildlife viewing are likely to spot white-tailed deer, porcupine, wild turkey, osprey and opossum.
Facilities
Each camp site has a picnic table, fire ring and lantern pole. Vault toilet open year round*. Available Starting Memorial Day Weekend - Flush toilets and dump station are available To Labor Day Weekend Natural Features Tionesta Lake winds its way through the rugged hills of northwestern Pennsylvania. Surrounding public areas include the Allegheny National Forest, Cooks Forest State Park, Cornplanter and Clear Creek State Forests, the state fish hatchery and state game lands.
Nearby Attractions
Tionesta Creek Road, which winds through the Tionesta Creek valley upstream of the dam, is an excellent scenic drive with spectacular views. The nearby Allegheny National Forest also makes a great day trip.
What the agency tells you
If you are arriving without a campground reservation, you must pay for camping before you park.
Please check to make sure the campsite you wish to occupy is not currently reserved prior to setting up to camp. If you occupy a reserved campsite, you will be told to move.
Visit Recreation.gov or call 1-877-444-6777 to determine if campsites are open and to pay for open sites.
Everything else this campground posts · 12
If you have reserved a campsite and wish to change campsites upon arrival, you must call Recreation.gov at 1-877-444-6777
For the Tionesta Lake office call: (814) 755-3512
For the Tionesta Recreation Area: (814) 755-3592
Parking on the grass is prohibited.
Two vehicles maximum per campsite.
No alcoholic beverages.
There is a limit of 1 wheeled camper and 1 tent per campsite, or 2 tents per campsite.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information..
Pennsylvania state law requires children under 13 to wear a personal flotation device; all people on boats less than 16 feet in length and all canoes and kayaks must also wear a PFD Alcoholic beverages are prohibited If you have any questions about the rules and regulations for the Kellettville Recreation Area please call the Ranger Station, 814-755-3512
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
Please note there is no potable water available at this location.
Check out time will be 12 p.m. Check in time will be 2 p.m.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 18
- Hookups
- None
- Paved pads
- 3 of 18
- Accessible sites
- 3
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- “…table, fire ring and lantern pole. Vault toilet open year round*. Available Starting Memorial Day… / …Starting Memorial Day Weekend - Flush toilets and dump station are available To Labor Day Weekend…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Scenic drives
- Wilderness access
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Forest County
- 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.
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.
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What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $24 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
20 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 18 mapped sitesAll 20 records
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 18 of the 20 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.
| KELLETTVILLE RECREATION AREA (PA) | Kellettville Shelter | day use | 20 amp | 74 ft | 153 ft | ||
| Loop 1 | 001 | standard nonelectric | yes | 92 ft | 25 ft | $24 | |
| Loop 1 | 002 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 76 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 003 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 134 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 004 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 149 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 005 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 156 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 006 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 79 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 008 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 154 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 009 | standard nonelectric | 62 ft | 150 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 010 | standard nonelectric | 76 ft | 147 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 011 | standard nonelectric | 82 ft | 141 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 012 Host | host pad | $24 | ||||
| Loop 1 | 013 | standard nonelectric | $24 | ||||
| Loop 1 | 014 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 224 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 015 | standard nonelectric | 67 ft | 235 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 016 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 220 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 017 | standard nonelectric | 77 ft | 195 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 018 | standard nonelectric | 61 ft | 170 ft | $24 | ||
| Loop 1 | 019 | standard nonelectric | yes | 60 ft | 155 ft | $24 | |
| Loop 1 | 020 | standard nonelectric | yes | 60 ft | 163 ft | $24 |
The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 1 it names a host pad. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Minister Creek Campground and TrailheadAllegheny National Forest · 7.4 mi
Hearts Content Recreation AreaAllegheny National Forest · 10 mi
Outflow Recreation Area (PA)11 mi
Tionesta Rec. Area Campground11 mi
Farnsworth CabinAllegheny National Forest · 12 mi
Loleta RecreationAllegheny National Forest · 13 miAddress: 979 Kelletville Road Tionesta, Pennsylvania 16353 From Pittsburgh take I-79 North. Merge onto I-80 East exit 116a toward Clarion for 9.8 miles. Take the PA-8 exits 29 toward Barkeyville. Turn Left onto Pa-8/State Route 8 for 16.4 miles. Turn right on US-62 and follow US-62 for 34 miles. Turn right on Pa-666 for 10 miles. Then take left turn on to Branch Rd for .1 mi and take a left at campground entrance. From Warren travel US-62 south 30 miles turn left onto PA-666 for 10 miles. Then take left turn on to Branch Rd for .1 mi and take a left at campground entrance.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Marienville, PA
Typical weather
Typical October night 42°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical February night 19°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
Kellettville Recreation Area (PA) is in Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district. Its representative, Glenn Thompson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →