Mill Run Recreation Area
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 30All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Mill Run Camping Area is located on Youghiogheny River Lake in the heart of the Laurel Highlands. The lake spans the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Clean waters, forested mountains and steep-sided valleys provide an unsurpassed setting for recreational opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Camping, fishing, boating, water skiing, hiking, biking, picnicking and sightseeing are the area's most popular activities. Boaters consider Youghiogheny River Lake, with its 16-mile length and channels up to one-half mile wide, the best powerboating and water skiing lake in southwestern Pennsylvania.
Facilities
The campground contains 30 sites that are all self-contained. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are available. There is also a beach, boat launch and children's play area located in the campground.
Natural Features
The country surrounding the lake is made up of narrow valleys and high rounded hills with steep slopes. Much of the land is covered with northern hardwoods including beech, sugar maple, white ash, yellow poplar and basswood. A variety of wildlife makes its home around Youghiogheny River Lake, including deer, turkey, grouse, rabbit and squirrel.
Nearby Attractions
Some of Pennsylvania and Maryland's finest state parks surround Youghiogheny Lake. Ohiopyle State Park is known for some of the best whitewater in the East and is often the location of national kayaking competitions.
What the agency tells you
Reservations must be made for the entire holiday weekend, Friday through Sunday.
Early checkout will not be refunded on holiday weekend reservations, Friday through Sunday.
Reservations can be made online or by calling the (877) 444-6777, for more information please call (814) 395-3242.
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Alcohol is prohibited.
Maximum of two tents or one tent and one trailer allowed per site.
Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 30
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- 30
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…30 sites that are all self-contained. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are available.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…are all self-contained. Flush toilets, drinking water and a dump station are available. There is also a…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Birding
- Boating
- Fishing
- Swimming
- Fall color · reported yesterday, 32 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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 · 12
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
30 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 30 mapped sites4 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.
All 30 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. 30 of the 30 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 001 | standard nonelectric | yes | 40 ft | 36 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 002 | standard nonelectric | yes | 29 ft | 36 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 003 | standard nonelectric | yes | under 10 ftCollier Run | $20 | |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 004 | standard nonelectric | yes | 25 ft | 24 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 005 | standard nonelectric | yes | 51 ft | 14 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 006 | standard nonelectric | yes | 42 ft | 58 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 007 | standard nonelectric | yes | 42 ft | 73 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 008 | standard nonelectric | yes | 42 ft | 45 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 009 | standard nonelectric | yes | 48 ftCollier Run | $20 | |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 010 | standard nonelectric | yes | 48 ftCollier Run | $20 | |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 011 | standard nonelectric | yes | 52 ft | 91 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 012 | standard nonelectric | yes | 83 ft | 146 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 013 | standard nonelectric | yes | under 10 ftCollier Run | $20 | |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 014 | standard nonelectric | yes | 55 ft | 104 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 015 | standard nonelectric | yes | 57 ft | 42 ft | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 016 | standard nonelectric | yes | 50 ft | 131 ft | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 017 | standard nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 70 ft | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 018 | standard nonelectric | yes | 38 ft | 65 ft | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 019 | standard nonelectric | yes | 51 ft | 42 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 020 | standard nonelectric | yes | 60 ft | 30 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 021 | standard nonelectric | yes | 50 ft | 85 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 022 | standard nonelectric | yes | 68 ft | 23 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 023 | standard nonelectric | yes | 105 ft | 82 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 024 | standard nonelectric | yes | 58 ft | 75 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 025 | standard nonelectric | yes | 58 ft | 130 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 026 | standard nonelectric | yes | 71 ft | 196 ft | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 027 | standard nonelectric | yes | 50 ft | 236 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 028 | standard nonelectric | yes | 48 ft | 226 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 029 | standard nonelectric | yes | 33 ft | 167 ftCollier Run | $20 |
| MILL RUN RECREATION AREA | 030 | standard nonelectric | yes | 33 ft | 180 ftCollier Run | $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.
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Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Somerfield North Recreation Area2.9 mi
Youghiogheny Recreation Area5.7 mi
Outflow Camping6.3 mi
Robert W Craig25 mi
Evitts Creek Hiker-Biker CampsiteChesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park · 35 mi
Irons Mountain Hiker-Biker CampsiteChesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park · 36 miFrom Route 40 East, turn right onto Friendsville Addison Road for approximately 3 miles then turn right onto Mill Run Road and follow the road until reaching the campground. From Route 40 West, turn left onto Friendsville Addison Road for approximately 3 miles then turn right onto Mill Run Road and follow the road until reaching the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Addison, PA
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°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.
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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Mill Run Recreation Area is in Maryland’s 6th congressional district. Its representative, April McClain Delaney (D), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: A+. See every public-lands vote →