Little Bear Group
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- Sites
- 32 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Little Bear Group Campground is located in beautiful Huntington Canyon along the Huntington Canyon National Scenic Byway on Utah Highway 31. It sits at an elevation of approximately 6,500 feet. Many recreational activities are available, including hiking, biking and fishing. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities include fishing, hunting, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, rock climbing and scenic driving. Huntington Creek is a Blue Ribbon fishery, offering high quality fishing for brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. The 4-mile Left Fork of the Huntington National Recreation Trail is nearby and open to hikers and horseback riders. The 10-mile Fish Creek Trail, for hiking, biking and horseback riding is also near the campground.
Facilities
Little Bear Group Campground is made up of two large-group campsites, for tent and RV camping. To reserve the entire campground, both sites (A and B) must be reserved at the same time. Each site can accommodate up to 50 people and 15 vehicles. Adjacent parking areas are dirt. The campsites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets are provided. Utility hookups are not available. Drinking water and trash collection facilities are not available at the campground. Visitors should bring their own water and pack out all garbage.
Natural Features
Pines and junipers offer plentiful shade and Huntington Creek runs alongside the campground. The canyon area has numerous lakes and streams, vibrant summer wildflowers, colorful fall foliage and abundant wildlife.
Nearby Attractions
The Huntington Canyon National Scenic Byway is part of the 86-mile Energy Loop. It offers stunning mountain and lake views as it tops 10,000 feet in elevation. The historic Stuart Guard Station Visitor Center is nearby, offering a glimpse of the 1930s life of a ranger and his family who once lived there. Exhibits of Civilian Conservation Corps projects and original equipment are also on display. Area information is available there as well.
What the agency tells you
Drinking water is not available at the campground
Horses are not allowed in the campground
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 3 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- 2
- Pets
- Allowed at 2 of 3 sites
- Campfires
- 2 of 3 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 2 of 3 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…at the campground. Visitors should bring their own water and pack out all garbage. Natural Features Pines…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Climbing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 253rd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:09 UTC
recreation.gov lists 2 of the 3 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 12
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 · 5
recreation.gov availability, read 15:09 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
3 sites · the site map
All 3 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. 3 of the 3 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| LITTLE BEAR GROUP | A | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 43 ft | $30–$50 |
| LITTLE BEAR GROUP | B | group standard nonelectric | 25 ft | yes | 197 ft | $30–$50 |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $20 |
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.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lower Little Bear CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 0.4 miRiver Bend CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 0.9 mi
Forks of HuntingtonManti-La Sal National Forest · 3.9 mi
Big Rock GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.6 mi
Indian Creek (UT)Manti-La Sal National Forest · 5.1 mi
Old Folks FlatManti-La Sal National Forest · 6.5 miThe campground is located 13 miles west of Huntington, Utah, along Highway 31.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Huntington, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 22°F, day 48°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 2°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
Little Bear Group is in Utah’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Kennedy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →