Miners Gulch
Reservable everywhere but bookable nowhere.Ask the agency →
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- Sites
- 1None on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Miners Gulch Campground was affected by large debris in 2023 that cause irrepairable damage and is no longer open to the Public. Keep reading
Recreation
Rock Creek offers fishing for brown, brook and rainbow trout. Whitewater rafting and kayaking opportunities are available seasonally.
Facilities
The campground is a group camping facility made up of several individual sites, which can accommodate a group of up to 40 people. Picnic tables and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets. The campground has no running water so campers must bring their own supply.
Natural Features
This shaded campground is set back off the main road for privacy. Dense stands of aspens shade the campground, and pines, sagebrush and wildflowers dot the landscape. Evenings in this area are cool.
Nearby Attractions
The Rock Creek Trail begins just over a mile away and connects with an accessible, paved interpretive nature trail in Yellowpine Campground. The Rock Creek Trail provides access to the High Uintas Wilderness, where hiking, backpacking, horseback riding and backcountry fishing are very popular activities. Upper Stillwater Reservoir and Lower Stillwater Ponds are nearby, offering fishing for brown and rainbow trout, swimming and picnicking. Upper Stillwater is currently accessible only by hiking in. Numerous hiking trails lead into the High Uinta Wilderness Area from here.
What the agency tells you
No drinking water is available at this campground; Please bring your own supply
Click here for more information on the Ashley 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
- 1
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 24 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…and campfire rings are provided, as are vault toilets. The campground has no running water so campers…”
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…as are vault toilets. The campground has no running water so campers must bring their own supply. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 299th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 24 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system
recreation.gov lists none of the 1 campsites the agency files here. Whatever these sites are, a reservation isn’t how you get one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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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.
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Every line of the receipt · 11
What you actually pay
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 · 4
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites · the site map
All 1 sites
| MINERS GULCH | G01 | type not stated | 24 ft | 207 ft |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Rock Creek Group (UT)Ashley National Forest · 0.6 mi
YellowpineAshley National Forest · 0.8 miRock Spring Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 4.0 mi
Upper StillwaterAshley National Forest · 4.5 mi
Moon Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 6.0 mi
Moon Lake Guard StationAshley National Forest · 6.3 miFrom Duchesne, Utah: Take Highway 87 north for 15 miles to the Mountain Home turnoff. Turn left and continue 2.5 miles north to the Rock Creek Store. Turn left toward Rock Creek Canyon and proceed approximately 15 miles to the campground.
You'll see a sign for Miners Gulch and a dirt road immediately after it. Do not take the dirt road. The campground turnoff is paved and is a few hundred yards after the sign.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tabiona, UT
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it · a letter you can send
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
Miners Gulch is in Utah’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Kennedy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record marks Miners Gulch reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its campsites. The draft asks why, and what it would take to fix it.
- The member who votes the moneyMike KennedyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 3rd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn R. CurtisU.S. Senator · Utah
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike LeeU.S. Senator · Utah
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Miners Gulch is reservable and not bookable
Dear Mike Kennedy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 3rd district. Miners Gulch, Ashley National Forest, Utah is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 1 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Miners Gulch on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Miners Gulch (Ashley National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Miners Gulch is reservable and not bookable
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. Miners Gulch, Ashley National Forest, Utah is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 1 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Miners Gulch on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Miners Gulch (Ashley National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Miners Gulch is reservable and not bookable
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. Miners Gulch, Ashley National Forest, Utah is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 1 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Miners Gulch on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Miners Gulch (Ashley National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com