Miller Flat Reservoir Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 64 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Miller Flat Reservoir Campground is located in a high mountain valley near Miller Flat Reservoir, at an elevation of 8,500 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing, horseback riding and exploring the surrounding off-road vehicle trails. The campground rest in a stand of aspen and spruce trees and sites the sites range from having partial to full shade throughout the day. Visitors are allowed to configure their vehicles and trailers as they choose within the site. Group cooking facilities are provided including picnic tables, a fire ring, dutch oven fire pan and utility tables. Keep reading
A vault toilet facility is located about 50 feet from the site. There is no electricity, water, sewer or garbage services. If the group site is not reserved, it is available to visitors on a first-come, first-served basis for $5.00 per vehicle per night. To maintain priority for reservations, first-come, first-served customers may only pay for two nights at a time. The three double family sites in the campground are only available on a first-come, first-served basis for $5.00 per vehicle per night. Nearby attractions include Miller Flat Reservoir, Potters Pond, Skyline Drive, and the expansive Arapeen OHV Trail System which has more than 350 miles of designated, maintained OHV trails. Hiking trails near this campground include the Left Fork of Hunting National Recreation Trail which is 1.5 miles north of the campground and various hiking opportunities 2 miles south in Scad Valley.
Recreation
Lake Canyon Recreation Area is located just north of the campground as is the northern trailhead of the Left Fork of Huntington National Recreation Trail. Cleveland and Huntington Reservoirs are located just minutes north of the campground along U31. Each offers trout fishing opportunities, with a boat ramp available at Huntington Reservoir.
Facilities
Visitors are allowed to configure their vehicles and trailers as they choose within the site. Group cooking facilities are provided including picnic tables, a fire ring, dutch oven fire pan and utility tables. A vault toilet facility is located about 50 feet from the site. There is no electricity, water, sewer or garbage services. If the group site is not reserved, it is available to visitors on a first-come, first-served basis for $5.00 per vehicle per night. To maintain priority for reservations, first-come, first-served customers may only pay for two nights at a time. The three double family sites in the campground are only available on a first-come, first-served basis for $5.00 per vehicle per night. They are not reservable.
Natural Features
The group site is set in an open meadow with aspen and fir trees bordering the northern perimeter.
Nearby Attractions
Potters Ponds, a popular trout fishery is located approximately seven miles south of the campground. The 370-mile Arapeen Off-highway Vehicle Trail System can be accessed directly from the campground by riding north or south along the Miller Flat Road. Maps are available from hosts working in the area.
What the agency tells you
After September 30th no reservations are accepted for the group site. Visitors may continue to walk-in to the group site on a first-come, first-served basis for $5.00 per vehicle per night.
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
- 6 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 4 of 6 sites
- Campfires
- 4 of 6 sites
- Shade
- 4 of 6 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 4 of 6 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Meadow
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Night sky · 254th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 15 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 16:45 UTC
recreation.gov lists 4 of the 6 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 16:45 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
6 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 6 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. 6 of the 6 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| MILLER FLAT RESERVOIR CAMPGROUND | Group | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | $50 | ||
| MILLER FLAT RESERVOIR CAMPGROUND | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 330 ft | 1,077 ft | $15 |
| MILLER FLAT RESERVOIR CAMPGROUND | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 213 ft | 1,332 ft | $15 |
| MILLER FLAT RESERVOIR CAMPGROUND | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 213 ft | 1,530 ft | $15 |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $15–$20 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $15–$20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Lake Canyon Rec AreaManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.0 mi
Chute GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.5 mi
Little Rock CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.9 mi
Chute Group CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 4.9 miFrom Fairview, Utah, proceed east on Utah Highway 31 for approximately 18 miles to the Miller Flat Road (Forest Road # 0014). Turn south on this road and proceed through the Lake Canyon Recreation Area, past Miller Flat Reservoir to Forest Road # 3328. Turning left (east) on this road provides entrance to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Clear Creek, 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
Miller Flat Reservoir Campground 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 →