Manti Community
- Right now
- Shut for nowOutside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 97 on recreation.gov
- Season
- – September 30Closes September 30. No opening date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Manti Community Campground is just 7 miles east of Manti, Utah next to Yearns Reservoir at an elevation of 7,400 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing and exploring local trails. Accessible by dirt road, no high clearance needed. Keep reading
Recreation
Canoeing and fishing for rainbow and cutthroat trout are popular activities on the small but scenic man-made reservoir. A short, easy trail traverses around Yearns Reservoir with fishing access points on the north, west, and south sides of the lake. The trail includes a wooden bridge, two stream crossings, a set of wooden stairs, and both shaded and exposed areas. Hiking, mountain biking and horseback riding are also favorite activities in the area.
Facilities
The campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 30 people and six vehicles. Single-family sites are available as well. Multiple vault toilets are provided, along with access footpaths leading down to Yearns Reservoir. Roads and parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
A mixed forest of spruce, pinyon, juniper, fir and aspen covers the area, offering partial shade. Wildlife and summer wildflowers are abundant. Situated on a hill above Yearns Reservoir with multiple access trails.
Nearby Attractions
The surrounding area is a haven for ATV enthusiasts. Several trails, primarily for 66-inch OHVs, crisscross the region, making up part of the 350-plus miles of the exciting Arapeen OHV Trail System. In the immediate area is the Burnt Hill Trail that connects with the Patton Trail, beginning at the Manti Loop Patton Trailhead. Milky Falls can also be found nearby.
What the agency tells you
Water is not available; visitors must bring their own
Livestock not allowed in campground
A fee of $3 will be charged at the campground for extra vehicles
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Group site, when not reserved, is available on a first come, first served basis for $15
This is a high elevation facility; Visitors traveling from lower elevations should use caution
Click here for more information on Manti-La Sal 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 7 of 9 sites
- Campfires
- 7 of 9 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 7 of 12 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 280th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 24 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 14:46 UTC
recreation.gov lists 7 of the 9 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.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
“A fee of $3 will be charged at the campground for extra vehicles” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 14:46 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
12 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 12 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 7 of the 12 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. 9 of the 12 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.
| FAM | 002 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $10 | ||
| FAM | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 68 ft | 116 ft | 165 ft | $10 |
| FAM | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 68 ft | 180 ft | 125 ft | $10 |
| FAM | 005 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 145 ft | 190 ft | 59 ft | $10 |
| FAM | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 145 ft | 214 ft | 191 ft | $10 |
| FAM | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 291 ft | 210 ftYearns Reservoir | 164 ft | $10 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | $10–$20 | |||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | 40 ft | 300 ft | $10–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $10–$20 | ||||
| MANT | 007 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 148 ft | 335 ft | 182 ft | $40 |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $10–$20 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $10–$20 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake HillManti-La Sal National Forest · 5.6 mi
Seely Creek Guard StationManti-La Sal National Forest · 7.2 mi
Ferron ReservoirManti-La Sal National Forest · 8.7 miFerron Reservoir Campground Ferron NorthManti-La Sal National Forest · 8.8 mi
Indian Creek Guard StationManti-La Sal National Forest · 8.9 miLocated 7 miles east of Manti, Utah, on Forest Development Road #045.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Manti, UT
Typical weather
Typical September night 43°F, day 69°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical September night 43°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
Manti Community is in Utah’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Burgess Owens (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →