Kents Lake Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- Sites
- 32All of them booked ahead
- Season
- June 1 – September 30Open June 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kents Lake Campground has 28 single family campsites and two multiple family campsites. It is situated in a beautiful forested setting at an elevation of 8,800 feet. The campground is located adjacent to Kents Lake, which is approximately 50 acres in size and suitable for small fishing boats and canoes. Kents Lake is stocked with a variety of trout, all catchable from shore or boat. Keep reading
Recreation
Anglers can fish for brown, brook and rainbow trout in Kents Lake from the shore or small non-motorized boat. Trailheads to the Piute ATV trail are close by, but there is no direct access from the campground.
Facilities
Kents Lake Campground has 28 single family campsites and 2 multiple family campsites. Sites vary from back-in to pull-through sites and will accomodate trailers from 24 to 60 feet long. All units have grills and/or fire rings and picnic tables. Drinking water is available throughout the campground. There are two vault toilets in the campground. There are no hook ups available. The nearest dump station is located in Beaver.
Natural Features
The Fishlake National Forest in central Utah features majestic stands of aspen encircling open mountain meadows that are lush with a diverse community of forbs and grasses. Elk, deer, black bear, cougar and moose can be found on the Forest, as well as wild turkey and mountain goats. The campground is mainly in an aspen stand with a mix of conifers. The trees provide a range of shade depending on location. Some areas are lighter or heavier shade, depending on site. The majority are well-shaded.
What the agency tells you
BEARS: Bears frequent this area; please keep all food, garbage and scented items locked up and inaccessible to wildlife.
Street legal and non-street legal vehicles are allowed for access and egress only.
Horses are not allowed in the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
There are no electricity, water or sewer site hookups at the campground.
This is a 'pack it in-pack it out' facility. No garbage services are available. Please bring you own garbage bags.
Camping is limited to 16 days.
Any vehicles or trailers that can not fit in the designated site must be relocated to another site purchased at full site price. Check area map for available free parking.
Learn more about Fishlake National Forest
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.
Discharging a firearm of any kind is prohibited: this includes BB guns, slingshots, paintball guns etc. Take these activities outside of the campground please.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 32
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…throughout the campground. There are two vault toilets in the campground. There are no hook ups available.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and/or fire rings and picnic tables. Drinking water is available throughout the campground. There are…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Fishing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 123rd 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.
Watch for a cancellation
Full? Watch it.
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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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 9
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · record Aug 23, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
32 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sites2 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 32 sites
| Standard NonElectric | 01 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 184 ft | 641 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 02 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 43 ft | 556 ft |
| Standard NonElectric | 03 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 43 ft | 557 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 04 | standard nonelectric | 63 ft | 59 ft | 498 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 05 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 90 ft | 415 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 06 | standard nonelectric | 56 ft | 115 ft | 345 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 07 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 97 ft | 243 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 08 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 97 ft | 250 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 09 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 138 ft | ||
| Standard NonElectric | 10 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 138 ft | ||
| Standard NonElectric | 11 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 102 ft | 141 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 12 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 60 ft | 151 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 13 | standard nonelectric | 71 ft | 60 ft | 102 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 14 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 78 ft | 130 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 15 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 91 ft | 127 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 16 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 118 ft | 142 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 17 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 108 ft | 139 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 18 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 65 ft | 181 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 19 | standard nonelectric | 95 ft | 68 ft | 153 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 20 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 65 ft | 244 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 21 | standard nonelectric | 80 ft | 96 ft | 247 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 22 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | 66 ft | 299 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 23 | standard nonelectric | 64 ft | 66 ft | 245 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 24 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 117 ft | 319 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 25 | standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 124 ft | 253 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 26 | standard nonelectric | 93 ft | 101 ft | 338 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 27 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 101 ft | 372 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 28 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 64 ft | 414 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 29 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 64 ft | 434 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 30 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 85 ft | 493 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 31 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 85 ft | 518 ft | |
| Standard NonElectric | 32 | standard nonelectric | 32 ft | yes | 96 ft | 583 ft |
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 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Anderson Meadow Campground (Fishlake NF, UT)Fishlake National Forest · 2.3 miLittle Reservoir CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 2.4 miLittle Reservoir CamproundFishlake National Forest · 2.4 mi
Mahogany Cove CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 2.7 mi
LeBaron Campground3.7 miTravel east of Beaver approximately 10 miles on SR 153, then turn right on to Forest Road 137 for about 5 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Circleville, UT
Typical weather
Typical June night 45°F, day 75°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 42°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
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
Kents Lake 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 →