Moon Lake Guard Station
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 6 notices
In the agency’s own words
Welcome to one of the gateways to the High Uintas Wilderness with multiple recreation opportunities. Moon Lake Guard Station is located near the shores of the scenic two mile long Moon Lake on the southern slope of the 13,000 foot peaked Uinta Mountains. Visitors come to enjoy cool mountain air, fishing, canoeing and motor boating, scenic vistas, hiking trails and horse rides. Keep reading
Recreation
Moon Lake offers great boating, canoeing and fishing. Anglers fish for tiger, rainbows, cutthroat, and brook trout, kokanee salmon, splake, and artic grayling. Tiger and rainbow trout are actively stocked annualy. The Lake Fork Trail and Brown Duck Mountain Loop hiking/esquestrain trails begin at Moon Lake Campground offering excellent opportunities in the High Uintas Wilderness where numerous alpine lakes provide great backcountry fishing. The Fish Creek Trail begins at the Moon Lake Dam and ascends northeast up to Center Park, climbing 8,200' to 10,400' over 5.6 miles. Moon Lake Resort is adjacent to the Guard Station and offers small engine boat rentals. Flying J Outfitters is located one mile before Moon Lake Campground, at the Lake Fork Trailhead. They offer both scheduled and walk-up horse rides as well as drop and pack trips into the High Uintas Wilderness.
Facilities
The Guard Station cabin can sleep a maximum of four overnight guest. The cabin contains one twin-size bunk bed and one queen size bed, though no linens, bedding or pillows are provided. Level parking is provided for a maximum of two vehicles. The cabin has flush toilet, running water, shower, wood stove, and electric lights with modern appliances. No tent or RV camping is allowed. There is no campfire ring and no fires are allowed. Family reunions or other large gatherings (more than four people) are not allowed. Guest are expected to clean the cabin before leaving.
Natural Features
The Guard Station is situated near the lake shore at an elevation of 8,000 feet where lodgepole pine, aspen, and Douglas fir provide shade away from the lake. Wildlife and flowers both flourish in the canyon.
Nearby Attractions
Moon Lake Campground and Moon Lake Resort are adjacent to the Guard Station.
What the agency tells you
Call the District Office at (435) 738-2482 three days prior to a reserved visit to confirm lock combination.
Off-road vehicles are allowed only on authorized roads, trails and routes as identified on the Ashley National Forest Roosevelt Ranger District Travel Map.
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pest in our National Forest by obtaning firewood near your desination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
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No tents or RV's allowed
Pets are allowed in the cabin but are not allowed on furniture. When not in the cabin pets must be on a six foot or less leash at all times when inside a developed site boundary. When your pet is out in the General Forest Area (outside a Developed Site Area) it must be either on a leash or under your direct control. The pets must not be left unattended in the cabin. Pet owners will be held liable for any damages done.
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest, or call (435) 789-1181.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- SHOWERS on 1 of 1 campsite records, Shower/Bath Type states a shower on all 1 of this campground's campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 1 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Accessible Swimming
- Backpacking
- Beachcombing
- Biking
- Birding
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Jet Skiing
- Motor Boat
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Other Recreation Concession Site
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 14 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.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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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 →
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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
All 1 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. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Moon Lake Guard Station Cabin | cabin electric | $60 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Moon Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 0.3 mi
Moon Lake Group CampgroundAshley National Forest · 0.6 mi
Rock Creek Group (UT)Ashley National Forest · 5.9 mi
Miners GulchAshley National Forest · 6.3 mi
YellowpineAshley National Forest · 7.0 miSwift Creek CampgroundAshley National Forest · 8.9 miFrom Duchesne, Utah take State Hwy 87 north for 15.5 miles. Turn North on Hwy 134 toward Mountain Home, then continue north to the Forest Boundary and Forest Road 131. Follow road 131 for five miles to the Moon Lake Campground. Go straight into Moon Lake Campground and take Lower Campground Loop, just past site #44 and Yield sign turn right. Park in assigned parking spots as you approach cabin. The cabin is about 32 miles from Duchesne on paved roads although some spots have pot holes.
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
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
Moon Lake Guard Station 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 →