Oak Creek Campground (Oak City, UT)
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2221 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices
In the agency’s own words
Oak Creek Campground is located in the scenic Oak Creek Canyon of central Utah's Fishlake National Forest. Visitors enjoy fishing and exploring local off-road vehicle trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Rainbow trout fishing in the cool waters of Oak Creek is a popular activity. Campers enjoy splashing in the creek on hot summer days. Off-road vehicle trails are available in the canyon and can be accessed nearby.
Facilities
The campground contains four reservable group sites. Picnic tables, campfire rings and grills are provided, as are vault toilets and drinking water. An amphitheater, volleyball court and play field are located on-site.
Natural Features
A dense grove of shady oak, maple and cottonwood trees lines the banks of Oak Creek.
What the agency tells you
Additional family sites available on a first come, first served basis.
There are no electricity, water or sewer hookups at the campground.
This is a ‘pack it in-pack it out’ facility. No garbage services are available. Please bring your own garbage bags.
Everything else this campground posts · 9
No live music or sound systems permitted
ATV Usage is allowed to leave and return to your campsite only. Driving in a manner that disturbs other campsites in the campground is prohibited.
Pets are allowed in this campground as long as they are not disruptive to other campsites and always remain leashed.
Horses are not allowed at this facility.
Camping is limited to 16 days.
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
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.
Caution Upper Loop: The upper campground road is narrow, smaller trailers are recommended for this area. It is advisable to walk the loop before pulling your camp trailer into that area.
Discharging a firearm of any kind is prohibited: this includes BB guns, slingshots, paintball guns etc. Take these activities outside of the campground please.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 4 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 45 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 21 of 22 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 1 of 23 campsite records / VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 23 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 10 of 23 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Amphitheater
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 207th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 21 of the 22 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $20–$40 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 Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
23 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 4 mapped sitesAll 23 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 4 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. 21 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.
| Lower Loop | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Lower Loop | 002 | type not stated | |||||
| Lower Loop | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Lower Loop | 004 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Lower Loop | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Lower Loop | 006 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Lower Loop | Camp Host | host pad | Flush Toilets (seasonal) +1 listed | ||||
| OAK CREEK | GROUP1 | group standard nonelectric | 24 ft | 20 ft | 85 ft | 234 ft | $60–$80 |
| OAK CREEK | GROUP2 | group standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 92 ft | 215 ft | $60–$80 | |
| OAK CREEK | GROUP3 | group standard nonelectric | 19 ft | 91 ft | 199 ft | $60–$80 | |
| OAK CREEK | GROUP4 | group standard nonelectric | 21 ft | 97 ft | 180 ft | $60–$80 | |
| Upper Loop | 007 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 010 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 016 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 018 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20–$40 | |||
| Upper Loop | 019 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | $20–$40 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Maple GroveFishlake National Forest · 25 miWhite Sands CampgroundFillmore Field Office · 27 miChicken Creek CampgroundUinta National Forest · 29 miFrom Oak City, Utah, travel east on Center Street 4.25 miles 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 Oak City, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 66°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 20°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
Oak Creek Campground (Oak City, UT) 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 →