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U.S. Forest Service · Allegheny National Forest · PA

Kiasutha

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 23 opens May 23.

Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book

Right now: Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night: $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
Sites: 11691 on recreation.gov

Photos · ASM

99 ftLongest rig

1,360 ftElevation

414 ftWater · Allegheny Reservoir

8.8 miNW of Kane, PA

67%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices

In the agency’s own words

Kiasutha Campground sits on the Kinzua Arm of the Allegheny Reservoir in northwest Pennsylvania, offering countless water activities. Keep reading

Recreation

Visitors enjoy the large, grassy beach for swimming and relaxing. A boat ramp and dock allow visitors to enjoy the vast lake for boating, and a paved trail leads to an accessible fishing pier. Campsites offer a variety of views and conditions, from shaded forest to views of the reservoir, primitive walk-in camping or RV camping with electric hook-up. Some sites are back-in and some are pull-through for easier access.

Facilities

There are about 98 reservable family campsites, each containing a picnic table, fire ring and tent pad. The loop roads are paved. Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, hot showers, a dump station and amphitheater. The beach and picnic area have a capacity of 900 people. The grounds also include parking facilities and a bathhouse. Firewood, ice, interpretive services and 24-hour campground attendants are offered at the site.

Natural Features

The Allegheny National Forest covers nearly half a million acres and is populated primarily with black cherry, maple and other hardwoods. The Kinzua Dam, built in 1965, impounds the Allegheny River to form the 25-mile-long Allegheny Reservoir. Since Kinzua Creek flowed into the Allegheny RIver, a part of it is also impounded, creating the Kinzua Arm. It is a little narrower than the main Allegheny Reservoir, allowing for a little more intimate connection between water and shore, and is not as subject to weather as the more open main reservoir. This campground sits on forested hills off the Longhouse Scenic Byway, a 29-mile loop that circles the Kinzua Creek Arm of the Allegheny Reservoir. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (814) 362-4613.

Nearby Attractions

The Kinzua Dam and Bridge are within driving distance.

Charges & Cancellations

Cancellations and changes must be made through Recreation.gov

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

What the agency tells you

Rule

Pets must be on a leash at all times and cannot be left unattended. Pets are not allowed on the beaches or in the water. Please clean-up after your pets

Rule

Don't move firewood: To limit the spread of invasive tree-killing pests, firewood from outside the area is not permitted. Some states have quarantines and may confiscate your firewood. Please help protect our forests from invasive species by obtaining your firewood at or near your camping destination and burning it on-site. Visit dontmovefirewood.org for more information.

Rule

Interagency passes are accepted at most sites and are valid for the pass holder and any accompanying passengers in a private vehicle. Pass holder must occupy the site.

Everything else this campground posts · 4

Rule

Please build fires only in the fire ring or grill provided. Dead material down on the ground can be used for fires but live trees, shrubs, and plants must not be cut or damaged.

Rule

Please place trash in provided receptacles. Do not burn trash or waste food in the fire ring. This invites wild animals into the campground and no one wants to cook their dinner over your rubbish.

Rule

It is illegal to discharge weapons, firearms, or fireworks within the Recreation Area.

Rule

Check out time is 12:00 pm. Camping fees must be paid by 2:00 pm - don't forget to put your site number and license plate number on your fee envelope.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Source: recreation.gov facility notices, quoted verbatim · Sep 9, 2026

Tents and rigs

Sites: 116
Hookups: 32 electric, 6 water, 6 sewer
Longest rig: 99 ft
Paved pads: 49 of 116
Accessible sites: 10
Pets: Allowed
Campfires: Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade: Every site

Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets: Flush Toilets; “…loop roads are paved. Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, hot showers, a dump station and…”
Showers: Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind; “Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, hot showers, a dump station and amphitheater.”
Drinking water: Yes; “…paved. Amenities include flush toilets, drinking water, hot showers, a dump station and amphitheater. The…”
Dump station: Yes; recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp: Yes
Firewood: Mentioned

Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Water, toilets and showers: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water: Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach; Fishing; Hiking; Swimming; Visitor center
Night sky · 6th darkest of 48 in PA: Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in McKean County: Past peak

Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

No reading yet, book on recreation.gov

recreation.gov lists 91 of the 116 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.

No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 23, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 23, 2027.recreation.gov Add to calendar (.ics)

A night$20–$40plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule

A weekend$48–$88DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above

If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservation; this campground publishes its own terms toorecreation.gov’s schedule

Runs itU.S. Forest ServiceBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.

Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 17

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service

A night, per site$20–$40

Standard Nonelectric$20

Tent Only Nonelectric$20

Premium non electric$24

Standard Electric$25

double site$40

Fhu$40

These are next season’s rates, May 23, 2027 to Sep 2, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.

The booking feerecreation.gov

Reservation fee, booked online$8

One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.

Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.

What a stay costs

One nightDerived$28–$48

A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$48–$88

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov

Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10

Cancellation fee$10

Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night

No-show$20 + your first night

“Cancellations and changes must be made through Recreation.gov” · this campground’s own terms

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 · 6

Sign price: recreation.gov facility rate schedule, quoted as the agency publishes it · Sep 10, 2026

Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026

This campground’s own terms: recreation.gov facility cancellation policy for this campground, quoted verbatim. Recreation.gov states that policies listed for specific locations supersede its site-wide policies. · Sep 9, 2026

The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026

Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026

The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

117 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 77 mapped sites

91 ftbetween you and the next site, typically

98%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites

Most roomLoop AWTR 043 166 ftLoop KIAS 037 164 ftLoop KIAS 091 - this site is 20 amp 163 ftLoop KIAS 014 155 ftLoop KIAS 011 143 ft

Least roomLoop KIAS 007 31 ftLoop KIAS 008 31 ftLoop BNON 059 59 ft

Source: Derived by CAMPANAC from recreation.gov per-site coordinates (nearest-neighbor distance) · Oct 12, 2026

All 117 records

95 of 117 records located

Standard49RV / electric28Type not stated18

024 025 031 032 033 038 039 043 044 049 051 052 053 054 055 056 057 058 059 060 063 067 069 070 071 073 074 075 077 078 079 080 081 082 083 086 087 088 090 064 066 096 097 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 010 011 012 014 016 018 020 021 022 023 026 029 030 034 036 037 041 042 046 048 09 091 - this site is 20 amp 092 093 094 095 098 076 15 19 27 28 35 40 45 47 50 61 65 68 72 84 85 89

Aerial · Esri World Imagery

Sites: recreation.gov (RIDB), coordinates as published · Aug 23, 2026

Imagery: Esri World Imagery

SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 95 of the 117 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. 116 of the 117 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.


AWTR	024	standard nonelectric	40 ft			118 ft	87 ft	420 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	025	standard nonelectric	20 ft			118 ft	108 ft	440 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	031	standard nonelectric	25 ft			71 ft	172 ft	370 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	032	standard nonelectric	30 ft			71 ft	106 ft	414 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	033	standard nonelectric	30 ft			142 ft	58 ft	449 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	038	standard nonelectric	30 ft			107 ft	139 ft	387 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	039	standard nonelectric	35 ft			107 ft	99 ft	446 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	043	standard nonelectric	30 ft			166 ft	91 ft	629 ft	$20–$40
AWTR	044	standard nonelectric	45 ft			73 ft	221 ft	562 ft	$20–$40
BNON	049	standard electric	30 ft	50 amp	yes	89 ft	469 ft	348 ft	$25–$40
BNON	051	standard electric	40 ft	50 amp		89 ft	489 ft	261 ft	$25–$40
BNON	052	standard electric	25 ft			94 ft	393 ft	232 ft	$25–$40
BNON	053	standard electric	30 ft	50/30 amp		115 ft	549 ft	160 ft	$25–$40
BNON	054	standard electric	35 ft	50/30 amp		125 ft	468 ftMud Lick Run	81 ft	$25–$40
BNON	055	standard electric	40 ft	50/30 amp		109 ft	369 ftMud Lick Run	139 ft	$25–$40
BNON	056	standard electric	30 ft	50/30 amp		92 ft	345 ftMud Lick Run	183 ft	$25–$40
BNON	057	standard electric	40 ft	50/30 amp		92 ft	284 ftMud Lick Run	240 ft	$25–$40
BNON	058	standard electric	30 ft	30/50 amp		107 ft	435 ft	133 ft	$25–$40
BNON	059	standard electric	30 ft	30/50 amp		59 ft	360 ft	207 ft	$25–$40
BNON	060	standard nonelectric	25 ft			59 ft	331 ft	229 ft	$20–$40
BNON	061	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
BNON	063	standard nonelectric	40 ft			135 ft	205 ft	362 ft	$20–$40
BNON	065	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
BNON	067	standard nonelectric	35 ft		yes	77 ft	358 ft	284 ft	$20–$40
BNON	068	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
BNON	069	standard nonelectric	35 ft		yes	77 ft	352 ftMud Lick Run	276 ft	$20–$40
BNON	070	standard nonelectric	35 ft			128 ft	251 ftMud Lick Run	356 ft	$20–$40
BNON	071	standard electric	15 ft	30/50 amp		128 ft	360 ftMud Lick Run	228 ft	$25–$40
BNON	072	standard electric		30/50 amp					$25–$40
BNON	073	standard electric	35 ft	30/50 amp		74 ft	213 ftMud Lick Run	315 ft	$25–$40
BNON	074	standard electric	45 ft	30/50 amp		74 ft	169 ftMud Lick Run	344 ft	$25–$40
BNON	075	standard electric	40 ft	50/30 amp		139 ft	214 ftMud Lick Run	133 ft	$25–$40
BNON	077	standard electric	40 ft	50/30 amp		75 ft	165 ftMud Lick Run	127 ft	$25–$40
BNON	078	standard electric	40 ft	50/30 amp		62 ft	299 ftMud Lick Run	197 ft	$25–$40
BNON	079	standard electric	30 ft	30/50 amp		75 ft	185 ftMud Lick Run	162 ft	$25–$40
BNON	080	standard electric	35 ft	50/30 amp		62 ft	285 ftMud Lick Run	252 ft	$25–$40
BNON	081	standard electric	30 ft	30/50 amp		89 ft	179 ftMud Lick Run	288 ft	$25–$40
BNON	082	standard electric	30 ft	30/50 amp		95 ft	156 ftMud Lick Run	383 ft	$25–$40
BNON	083	standard electric	30 ft	30/50 amp		89 ft	253 ftMud Lick Run	331 ft	$25–$40
BNON	084	standard electric		30 amp					$25–$40
BNON	085	standard electric		30 amp					$25–$40
BNON	086	standard electric	30 ft	30 amp		112 ft	504 ftMud Lick Run	218 ft	$25–$40
BNON	087	standard electric	25 ft	30 amp		121 ft	511 ftMud Lick Run	229 ft	$25–$40
BNON	088	standard electric	30 ft	50/30 amp		86 ft	608 ftMud Lick Run	322 ft	$25–$40
BNON	089	standard electric							$25–$40
BNON	090	standard electric	35 ft	50/30 amp		86 ft	694 ftMud Lick Run	396 ft	$25–$40
BWTR	064	standard nonelectric	40 ft			102 ft	216 ft	460 ft	$20–$40
BWTR	066	standard nonelectric	30 ft			102 ft	210 ft	447 ft	$20–$40
BWTR	096	standard nonelectric	30 ft			76 ft	61 ft	545 ft	$20–$40
BWTR	097	standard nonelectric	30 ft			95 ft	48 ft	512 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	001	standard nonelectric	40 ft			132 ft	605 ft	209 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	002	standard nonelectric	20 ft			87 ft	505 ft	72 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	003	standard nonelectric	30 ft			74 ft	610 ft	108 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	004	standard nonelectric	20 ft			74 ft	611 ft	113 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	005	standard nonelectric	30 ft			95 ft	578 ft	147 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	006	standard nonelectric	30 ft		yes	127 ft	447 ft	80 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	007	standard nonelectric	30 ft			31 ft	417 ft	200 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	008	standard nonelectric	30 ft			31 ft	448 ft	192 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	010	standard nonelectric	35 ft			127 ft	468 ft	229 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	011	standard nonelectric	40 ft			143 ft	660 ft	215 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	012	standard nonelectric	30 ft			127 ft	520 ft	109 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	013	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	014	standard nonelectric	25 ft			155 ft	620 ft	136 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	015	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	016	standard nonelectric	40 ft			60 ft	466 ft	87 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	018	standard nonelectric	40 ft			60 ft	420 ft	146 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	019	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	020	standard nonelectric	35 ft			68 ft	312 ft	232 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	021	standard nonelectric	25 ft			100 ft	216 ft	320 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	022	standard nonelectric	40 ft			68 ft	330 ft	188 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	023	type not stated	40 ft				318 ft	189 ft	$35
KIAS	026	standard nonelectric	35 ft			142 ft	238 ft	299 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	027	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	028	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	029	standard nonelectric	35 ft			76 ft	341 ft	233 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	030	standard nonelectric	30 ft			86 ft	289 ft	233 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	034	standard nonelectric	45 ft		yes	65 ft	206 ft	302 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	035	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	036	standard nonelectric	45 ft		yes	65 ft	259 ft	248 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	037	standard nonelectric	30 ft		yes	164 ft	300 ft	243 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	040	standard nonelectric							$20–$40
KIAS	041	standard nonelectric	30 ft		yes	95 ft	217 ft	403 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	042	standard nonelectric	25 ft			95 ft	232 ft	465 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	046	standard nonelectric	30 ft			104 ft	328 ft	375 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	048	standard nonelectric	25 ft			87 ft	464 ft	157 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	09	standard nonelectric	45 ft			121 ft	587 ft	257 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	091 - this site is 20 amp	standard electric	40 ft	20 amp		163 ft	449 ft	444 ft	$25–$40
KIAS	092	standard electric	40 ft	30/50 amp		90 ft	344 ft	408 ft	$25–$40
KIAS	093	standard electric	40 ft	30/50 amp		90 ft	255 ft	429 ft	$25–$40
KIAS	094	standard nonelectric	40 ft			73 ft	162 ft	616 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	095	standard nonelectric	40 ft			91 ft	79 ft	609 ft	$20–$40
KIAS	098	standard nonelectric	40 ft			76 ft	129 ft	472 ft	$20–$40
MANAGEMENT SITES	076	type not stated	40 ft				123 ftMud Lick Run	182 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	1	type not stated	99 ft		yes				$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	15	type not stated					475 ft	219 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	19	type not stated					195 ft	371 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	27	type not stated					162 ft	437 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	28	type not stated					317 ft	316 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	35	type not stated					126 ft	396 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	4	type not stated	40 ft		yes				$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	40	type not stated					100 ft	534 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	45	type not stated					362 ft	459 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	47	type not stated					436 ft	392 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	50	type not stated					358 ft	333 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	61	type not stated					255 ft	327 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	65	type not stated					308 ft	308 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	68	type not stated					251 ft	389 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	72	type not stated					248 ftMud Lick Run	331 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	84	type not stated					388 ftMud Lick Run	125 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	85	type not stated					401 ftMud Lick Run	123 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	89	type not stated					631 ft	278 ft	$35
MANAGEMENT SITES	xxx	unnamed record	99 ft						$35
S&P	S&P Double Nonelectric	type not stated	40 ft						$35
S&P	S&P Full Hook Up	type not stated	40 ft						$35
S&P	S&P Premium Nonelectric	type not stated	40 ft						$35
S&P	S&P Standard Electric	type not stated	40 ft						$35
S&P	S&P Standard Nonelectric/Tent only/Shelter	type not stated	40 ft						$35

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.

The records with no site name: Derived by CAMPANAC from the agency’s own campsite records: recreation.gov files some overnight records with no site name, only a row of X characters. A block is read as the campground’s own sites, filed without names, only where the agency types those records as campsites rather than MANAGEMENT, gives each one a coordinate, and their numbering continues the campground’s own numbered sites with no gap. Everything else is left uncounted, and where the evidence doesn’t decide the record is counted as no kind of site rather than guessed at · Sep 12, 2026

Price: Derived by CAMPANAC: each site takes the per-night rate this campground publishes for the site’s own site type (recreation.gov rate schedule). recreation.gov publishes no per-campsite fee, and a site whose type carries no published rate is left blank rather than called free · Sep 11, 2026

25 of 117 listed

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

Coordinate41.78500, -78.90250

The mapSee it on the map

The driveDirections ↗

The phone814-368-4158

The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Also near here

Red Bridge (PA)Allegheny National Forest · 1.0 mi

Morrison Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Forest · 2.9 mi

DewdropAllegheny National Forest · 4.4 mi

Pine Grove Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Forest · 6.6 mi

Hopewell Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Recreation Area · 8.9 mi

Handsome Lake Boat Access CampgroundAllegheny National Recreation Area · 9.6 mi

Getting there

From Kane, Pennsylvania, take State Highway 321 north for 10 miles, then turn onto Longhouse Scenic Drive and continue for a mile to the campground.

From Warren, Pennsylvania, take State Highway 59 east for 13 miles, then turn south on Longhouse Scenic Drive and continue for 10 miles.

Directions: Driving directions as the agency wrote them · Sep 9, 2026

Source: Recreation.gov data (RIDB), full extract · Aug 23, 2026

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Overnight35°Slight Chance Very Light Rain21% rain

Saturday45°Slight Chance Very Light Rain then Mostly Sunny15% rain

Saturday Night25°Widespread Frost

Sunday58°Widespread Frost then Sunny

NWS forecast for Sheffield, PA

Source: National Weather Service, CTP forecast office · Oct 17, 2026

Typical weather

Typical October night 35°F, day 59°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical February night 13°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°0°

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.

Measured at: KANE 1NNE, PA (USC00364432), 9 miles away and 390 ft higher

Source: NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, U.S. Climate Normals 1991-2020, monthly normals · Sep 8, 2026

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

What threatens this place

developing

Allegheny National Forestdrilling

Roadless

Verbeck Island14 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.

Source: MTJP Threatened Lands map · Sep 28, 2026

Who answers for this land

Kiasutha 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 →

Seen something wrong here? Tell us.

Source: U.S. Census district boundaries and the MTJP Congressional Public Lands Score

How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from

Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.

Sites on recreation.gov: recreation.gov’s own month availability payload for this facility, asked for October 2026, November 2026 and July 2027. It names 91 of the 116 campsites the agency files here, and every one of them carries an answer either way. A campground nobody has read carries no answer at all, never a no. · Oct 11, 2026

Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026

Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate, taken as the median across the 95 campsites here that carry a reading · Sep 9, 2026

Water: USGS National Hydrography Dataset, nearest perennial lake, reservoir, river or stream to this campground’s coordinate · Sep 8, 2026

Night sky: VIIRS Day/Night Band annual cloud-free composite, VNL V2 2024 (Earth Observation Group, Colorado School of Mines), read at the published coordinate: 0.27 mcd/m² of artificial all-sky glow, ranked against the 48 rated federal campgrounds in Pennsylvania · Sep 8, 2026

Sky-glow model: Duriscoe, Anderson, Luginbuhl and Baugh (2018), a simplified model of all-sky artificial sky glow derived from VIIRS Day/Night band data, the National Park Service sky-glow model

Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported past peak · Oct 15, 2026

Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.

Nearest place of any size: Sheffield, PA, 8.3 mi NE (a census designated place). Straight line.

Nearest town: U.S. Census Bureau TIGER/Line 2024 places, measured by CAMPANAC to the town boundary; population is the ACS 2020-2024 5-year estimate · Sep 9, 2026