U.S. Forest Service · Fishlake National Forest · UT

Maple Grove

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 1 opens May 1.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
Sites
2322 on recreation.gov
35 ftLongest rig
6,560 ftElevation
335 ftWater · an unnamed stream
11.9 miNW of Salina, UT
19%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices

In the agency’s own words

Maple Grove Campground sits in Fishlake National Forest in central Utah. Visitors enjoy fishing and hiking the nearby Rock Canyon Trail. Keep reading

Recreation

The 3.2-mile Rock Canyon Trail begins in the campground and leads to the top of the Pahvant Range. Younger campers love fishing for rainbow trout in Ivie Creek.

Facilities

The campground offers three reservable accessible group sites with picnic tables, campfire circles, grills and water spigots. Several single sites are available on a first come, first served basis. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided.

Natural Features

The campground sits beneath towering red cliffs and offers scenic views of the valley below. Thick stands of maple, cottonwood, box elder, oak and pine provide plentiful shade. Gentle Ivie Creek runs through the site.

What the agency tells you

Rule

There are no electricity, water or sewer site hookups at this campground.

Rule

This is a 'pack it in-pack it out' facility; please bring garbage bags. There are no garbage services available.

Rule

This campground has first come, first served sites available. Reservations are recommended. The campground fills quickly, especially during holidays and weekends.

Everything else this campground posts · 8
Rule

No live music or sound systems permitted.

Rule

Off-road vehicles are not permitted.

Rule

Camping is limited to 16 days.

Rule

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

Rule

Pets are allowed in this campground as long as they are not disruptive to other campsites and always remain leashed.

Rule

Horses are not allowed at this facility.

Rule

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.

Rule

Discharging a firearm of any kind is prohibited: this includes BB guns, slingshots, paintball guns etc. Take these activities outside of the campground please.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
23 · 3 group
Hookups
None
Longest rig
35 ft
Paved pads
All
Accessible sites
23
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Vault Toilets
“…on a first come, first served basis. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Natural Features…”
Drinking water
Yes
“…tables, campfire circles, grills and water spigots. Several single sites are available on a first…”

Around the campground

On the water
Creek
Biking
Fishing
Hiking
Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 231st darkest of 458 in UT
Bortle 3
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026

Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:38 UTC

recreation.gov lists 22 of the 23 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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 1, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 1, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay15 nightsthe facility record
Sites, a night, from$68From the rate schedule matched to 3 of its 23 sites. U.S. Forest Service publishes no campground-level rate we can read.derived by CAMPANAC
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.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.

We’ll write once, when the season that starts Sat, May 1 2027 is open for booking.

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 · 12

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
Sites, a night, from$68
Derived by CAMPANAC from the rate schedule matched to 3 of its 23 sites. U.S. Forest Service publishes no campground-level rate for this campground that we can read, only per-site rate templates its own record matches to each site’s own type.
Group areas, a night$68–$122
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Oct 1, 2026 to Oct 31, 2026.
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
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s nothing to add the $8 booking fee to. We won’t total a receipt with a number missing from it.
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

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 16:38 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

23 sites · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 3 mapped sites
298 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least roomB 298 ftC 298 ftA 373 ft

All 23 sites

3 of 23 sites located
Group3
Aerial · Esri World Imagery
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Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 3 of the 23 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. 3 of the 23 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.

MAPLE GROVE (UT)01standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)02standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)03standard nonelectric35 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)04standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)05standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)06standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)07standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)08standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)09standard nonelectric30 ftyes
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MAPLE GROVE (UT)11standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)12standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)13standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)14standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)15standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)16type not stated30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)17standard nonelectric2 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)18standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)19standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)20standard nonelectric30 ftyes
MAPLE GROVE (UT)Agroup standard nonelectric30 ftyes373 ft136 ft153 ft$68–$122
MAPLE GROVE (UT)Bgroup standard nonelectric30 ftyes298 ft226 ft456 ft$68–$122
MAPLE GROVE (UT)Cgroup standard nonelectric30 ftyes298 ft307 ft751 ft$68–$122

Getting there

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

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today66°Sunny
Tonight41°Mostly Clear
Saturday68°Sunny
Saturday Night44°Partly Cloudy1% rain

NWS forecast for Aurora, UT

Typical weather

Typical October night 36°F, day 64°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

100°32°10°

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: MANTI, UT (USC00425402), 30 miles away and 820 ft lower

The land, and who answers for it

what threatens it · who answers for it

Roadless country, and what’s coming for it

Roadless
North Pavant53,262 acres · 5 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Beehive Peak59,137 acres · 9 mi · inventoried roadless area
Roadless
Copleys11,683 acres · 10 mi · inventoried roadless area

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

Who answers for this land

Celeste Maloy, official portrait

Maple Grove 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 →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service’s own recreation database flags it not open and publishes no reason and no date. That’s a flag, not a notice: the number below is the only way to be sure.
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: Aurora, UT, 9.9 mi NW. Straight line.