U.S. Forest Service · Dixie National Forest · UT
Oak Creek Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
8,860 ftElevation
222 ftWater · Oak Creek
54.6 miSE of Monroe, UT
41%Tree cover
Bortle 1Night sky · 11th darkest of 458 in UT
Opens May 1. No closing date published.Today
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This campground is 17 miles north of Boulder, Utah, and 19 miles south of Torrey, Utah, on the Utah Highway 12 Scenic Byway. There are nine sites suitable for tent camping or trailers less than 20 feet long. Keep reading
Recreation
Visitors can ride off highway vehicles directly from the campground to nearby roads and trails. Campers will also be able to experience Oak Creek Reservoir, Lower Bowns Reservoir, Wildcat Visitors Center, off highway vehicle trails and non-motorized trails. View Oak Creek Campground Map
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Fall color · reported 9 days ago, 23 km away
- Patchy color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 7, 2026
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 7
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
Reservations can be made on-line at the recreation.gov or by telephone: 1-877-444-6777
Tdd 1-877-833-6777.
Please Note: All campgrounds on the Fishlake National Forest are managed by High Country Recreation under the terms and conditions of a concession permit that was issued to them by the Forest Service in 2020.
Email: highcountryrec@gmail.com Phone: 435-979-6868
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near hereOak Creek Rec Site (Boulder, UT)Dixie National Forest · 0.0 miUpper Pleasant Creek CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.8 mi
Rosebud ATVDixie National Forest · 1.2 mi
Lower BownsDixie National Forest · 3.8 mi
SingletreeDixie National Forest · 5.1 mi
Group CampsiteCapitol Reef National Park · 14 mi
Rosebud ATVDixie National Forest · 1.2 miLower BownsDixie National Forest · 3.8 miSingletreeDixie National Forest · 5.1 miGroup CampsiteCapitol Reef National Park · 14 miThe agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
This Afternoon49°Sunny
Tonight33°Clear
Saturday50°Sunny
Saturday Night37°Mostly Cloudy3% rain
NWS forecast for Boulder, UT
Source: National Weather Service, SLC forecast office · Oct 16, 2026
The land, and who answers for it
what threatens it · who answers for it
Roadless country, and what’s coming for it
Roadless
Roadless
You’re camping on ground somebody wants. We track the threats and the comment deadlines.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Oak Creek Campground 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: Today falls inside the season the agency publishes, and it has posted nothing else. That reading is ours. The U.S. Forest Service’s own database, though, flags it not open with no reason or date; the flag is named under How we know all this.
Listed not open: USFS EDW Recreation Opportunities, openstatus field: a not-open flag in a database, with no reason and no date published; read there since Sep 9, 2026. A flag, not a notice, so this page doesn’t call it a closure. · Oct 16, 2026
Season: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (23 km) · Oct 7, 2026
Reported by: USA National Phenology Network (Nature's Notebook), reported patchy color · Oct 7, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Boulder, UT, 8.3 mi NNE. Straight line.