Mahogany Cove Campground
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 98 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Mahogany Cove Campground is located in a grassy meadow along the Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway just 12 miles from Beaver, Utah, at an elevation of 7,200 feet. Visitors enjoy hiking, mountain biking and fishing in the nearby Beaver River. Keep reading
Recreation
Fishing for rainbow and brook trout is popular on the Beaver River, which is just a short drive below the campground. Hiking, mountain biking and hunting are popular activities in the area.
Facilities
The campground consists of one group site made up of seven individual sites that can accommodate a total of 150 people and 20 vehicles. Reservations are posted at the campground in advance. If the entire site is not reserved, the individual sites can be used on a first-come, first-served basis. The first site has several picnic tables, a large grill and campfire circle. The other six sites each contain one picnic table, fire ring and grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs are gravel. A large play field is located just inside the entrance.
Natural Features
Stands of mahogany, pinion, juniper and ponderosa pine trees provide partial shade. The campground offers pretty views of the Tushar Range. An overlook just outside the campground has views of Beaver Canyon.
Nearby Attractions
Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway curves past the campground, offering 17 miles of scenic driving through the beautiful Tushar Mountains. Numerous lakes and streams provide fishing, boating and canoeing opportunities.
What the agency tells you
SR-153 wraps around three sides of the campground; exercise caution with children and pets.
Street legal non-street legal vehicles are allowed for access and egress only.
There are no electricity, water, or sewer hookups at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
This is a 'pack it in-pack it out' facility. No garbage services are available. Please bring your 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
Click here for more info about the 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
- 9 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 66 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…one picnic table, fire ring and grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…fire ring and grill. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and parking spurs are gravel. A…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 159th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 8 of the 9 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.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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
9 sites · the site map
All 9 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. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MACC | 1 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | 2 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | 3 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | 4 | standard nonelectric | 66 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | 5 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | 6 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | 7 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $20 | ||
| MACC | G1 | group standard nonelectric | yes | $110 | ||
| MACC | G11 | group standard nonelectric | 826 ft | $110 |
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
Kents Lake CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 2.7 mi
Little Cottonwood CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 3.2 mi
Anderson Meadow Campground (Fishlake NF, UT)Fishlake National Forest · 5.0 miFrom Beaver, Utah, travel east on paved SR-153/Beaver Canyon Scenic Byway approximately 12 miles to campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Beaver, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 36°F, day 63°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 36°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
Mahogany Cove 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 →