Oak Creek Rec Site (Boulder, UT)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20–$40Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 9All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 8 notices
In the agency’s own words
Oak Creek Campground is located high on the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 8300 feet. Torrey, Utah is just 20 miles northwest. Visitors enjoy exploring miles of local ATV trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Lower Bowns Reservoir near by offers fishing and boating opportunities.
Facilities
The campground has pit toilets and drinking water.
Natural Features
The campground is situated in a scenic ponderosa pine forest on teh east side of the Boulder Mountain.
Nearby Attractions
Capital Reef National Park is approximately 30 miles from Oak Creek Campground. This unique park offers excellent hiking trails, historic sites, scenic driving and breathtaking scenery. Sightseeing along Utah Highway 12, a National Scenic Byway, is very popular. Travelers visit from every corner of the world to gaze upon stunning red rock canyons and desert landscapes.
What the agency tells you
Street legal and non-street legal vehicles are allowed for access and egress only.
There are no electricity, water or sewer hookups at the campground.
Camping is limited to 16 days.
Everything else this campground posts · 5
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
Bears frequent this area; please keep all food, garbage and scented items locked up and inaccessible to wildlife.
Discharging a firearm of any kind is prohibited: this includes BB guns, slingshots, paintball guns etc. Take these activities outside of the campground please.
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.
Garbage dumpsters are available on site.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 9
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- 5 of 9
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- PIT TOILETS on 9 of 9 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- WATER SPIGOT on 9 of 9 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 10th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 1
- Fall color · reported 10 days ago, 23 km away
- Patchy 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.
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 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
9 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 9 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 9 of the 9 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. 9 of the 9 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Double | 4 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 52 ft | 192 ft | 68 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 1 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 60 ft | 250 ft | 146 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 2 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | yes | 80 ft | 278 ft | 64 ft | $20–$40 |
| Single | 3 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 52 ft | 238 ft | 89 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 5 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 60 ft | 208 ft | 105 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 6 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 79 ft | 163 ft | 180 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 7 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 49 ft | 128 ft | 100 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 8 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 86 ft | 149 ft | $20–$40 | |
| Single | 9 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 37 ft | 110 ft | 140 ft | $20–$40 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
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 miThis campground is 17 miles north of Boulder, Utah, and 19 miles south of Torrey, Utah, on the Utah Highway 12 Scenic Byway.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Boulder, 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
Oak Creek Rec Site (Boulder, 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 →