Kings Creek
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 15:49 UTC
- A night
- $25When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 39In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Kings Creek Campground is located on the west side of Tropic Reservoir, high on the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 8,000 feet. Visitors enjoy boating, fishing, hiking, and exploring local ATV trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Kings Creek is a favorite of ATV enthusiasts because of its easy access to a large network of trails. The Fremont ATV trail passes within 1/4 mile of the campground and the Great Western Trail is nearby. Hiking and mountain biking trails are plentiful as well, with access from various points within the campground. Tropic Reservoir offers boating, canoeing and fishing for brook, rainbow, brown and cutthroat trout. A boat ramp is within 1/2-mile of the the campground. The East Fork Sevier River is nearby with good fishing opportunities.
Facilities
The campground offers two group sites which can be reserved separately or together. The group area is isolated from the main campground and provides privacy for gatherings and events. A large covered pavilion with picnic tables is also included with the group site to provide shade and cover from the weather. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. The campground and reservoir are reached via a partially paved and well-maintained gravel road with good access for cars and RVs alike.
Natural Features
Tropic Reservoir is situated at the foot of beautifully forested mountains in Southern Utah. The campground is nestled among towering pines on a hillside above the reservoir.
Nearby Attractions
Bryce Canyon National Park is located 12 miles from the campground, with breathtaking scenery and excellent hiking opportunities. Kodachrome Basin State Park is ab one hour drive, with towering rock spires, a natural arch and great hiking trails.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
ATVs are only allowed to enter and exit campsite and must remain on roadways and parking spurs
Click here to learn more about the Dixie National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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.
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
Absolutely no target practice is allowed in the campgrounds, this includes all firearms, archery, air guns and sling shots.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Customer Service Please Contact Recreation.gov at 1800-342-2267, or the concessionaire American Land and Leisure 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.Powell@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 39 · 1 tent-only, 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 1 of 39
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…shade and cover from the weather. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. The campground and…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…from the weather. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. The campground and reservoir are…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, River, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Night sky · 68th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
Nothing to book until it reopensread 15:49 UTC
recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
Tell me when it reopens
Watch for it to come back
One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.
We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 11
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
Why this page can’t say why
recreation.gov lists every site at Kings Creek closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.
There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.
Open within 60 miles · 4
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- North CampgroundBryce Canyon National Park · 5.5 mi · walk-up · 100 sites
- Blue Spruce CampgroundDixie National Forest · 42 mi · walk-up
- Little Reservoir CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 46 mi · walk-up
- Watchman CampgroundZion National Park · 49 mi · 190 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 15:49 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
40 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 38 mapped sitesAll 40 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 40 of the 40 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. 36 of the 40 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| King | 01 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 184 ft | 787 ft | 457 ft | $25 | |
| King | 02 | type not stated | 40 ft | 713 ft | 513 ft | |||
| King | 03 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 145 ft | 629 ft | 333 ft | $25 | |
| King | 04 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 116 ft | 560 ft | 389 ft | $25 | |
| King | 05 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 67 ft | 715 ft | 237 ft | $25 | |
| King | 06 | standard nonelectric | 22 ft | 67 ft | 704 ft | 274 ft | $25 | |
| King | 07 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 93 ft | 611 ft | 366 ft | $25 | |
| King | 08 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 53 ft | 656 ft | 346 ft | $25 | |
| King | 09 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 57 ft | 716 ft | 283 ft | $25 | |
| King | 10 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 53 ft | 655 ft | 373 ft | $25 | |
| King | 11 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 57 ft | 748 ft | 283 ft | $25 | |
| King | 12 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 83 ft | 784 ft | 342 ft | $25 | |
| King | 13 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 83 ft | 856 ft | 271 ft | $25 | |
| King | 14 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 63 ft | 976 ft | 384 ft | $25 | |
| King | 15 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,004 ft | 312 ft | $25 | |
| King | 16 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 1,073 ft | 345 ft | $25 | |
| King | 17 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 63 ft | 1,008 ft | 440 ft | $25 | |
| King | 18 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 132 ft | 1,138 ft | 496 ft | $25 | |
| King | 19 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 66 ft | 1,018 ft | 639 ft | $25 | |
| King | 20 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 66 ft | 1,080 ft | 679 ft | $25 | |
| King | 21 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 87 ft | 1,043 ft | 741 ft | $25 | |
| King | 22 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 87 ft | 971 ft | 682 ft | $25 | |
| King | 23 | day use | 140 ft | yes | 946 ft | 524 ft | ||
| King | 24 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 134 ft | 822 ft | 582 ft | $25 | |
| King | 25 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 77 ft | 855 ft | 726 ft | $25 | |
| King | 26 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 77 ft | 780 ft | 716 ft | $25 | |
| King | 27 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 54 ft | 825 ft | 589 ft | $25 | |
| King | 28 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 54 ft | 770 ft | 593 ft | $25 | |
| King | 29 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 71 ft | 756 ft | 529 ft | $25 | |
| King | 30 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 92 ft | 884 ft | 402 ft | $25 | |
| King | 31 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 61 ft | 944 ft | 166 ft | $25 | |
| King | 32 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 61 ft | 885 ft | 174 ft | $25 | |
| King | 33 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 950 ft | 89 ft | $25 | |
| King | 34 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 885 ft | 97 ft | $25 | |
| King | 35 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 91 ft | 832 ft | 146 ft | $25 | |
| King | 36 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 106 ft | 917 ft | 186 ft | $25 | |
| King | 37 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 74 ft | 805 ft | 231 ft | $25 | |
| King | 38 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 74 ft | 843 ft | 274 ft | $25 | |
| Lower | Group A - RV | group rv area nonelectric | 55 ft | 327 ft | 1,181 ft | 54 ft | ||
| Upper | Group B-Tent | group tent only area nonelectric | 22 ft | 327 ft | 1,473 ft | 173 ft |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
25 of 40 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
North Campground (UT)Bryce Canyon National Park · 5.5 mi
Sunset Campground (UT)Bryce Canyon National Park · 5.5 mi
North CampgroundBryce Canyon National Park · 5.5 miRed Canyon CampgroundDixie National Forest · 8.6 mi
Podunk Guard StationDixie National Forest · 8.8 miPine Lake Recreation AreaDixie National Forest · 19 miFrom Panguitch, Utah, travel 7 miles south on Hwy 89 to Scenic Hwy 12. Travel Hwy 12 for 11 miles to East Fork Road. Travel East Fork Road 7 miles to Tropic Reservoir and Kings Creek Campground. Turn immediately after the sign for the campground, and continue .5 miles to the campground located on the west side of Tropic Reservoir.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Bryce Canyon City, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 17°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
Kings Creek 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 →