Old Folks Flat
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 119 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Old Folks Flat Campground is nestled in beautiful Huntington Canyon along the Huntington Canyon National Scenic Byway on Utah Highway 31. It sits at an elevation of 8,600 feet. Many recreational activities are available, including hiking, biking and fishing. This small campground is accessible by paved road by all types of passenger vehicles. Keep reading
Recreation
Popular activities include fishing, hunting, hiking, mountain biking, horseback riding, rock climbing and scenic driving. Nearby Huntington Creek is a Blue Ribbon fishery, offering high-quality fishing for brown, cutthroat and rainbow trout. The 4-mile Left Fork of the Huntington National Recreation Trail is nearby and open to hikers and horseback riders. The 10-mile Fish Creek Trail, for hiking, biking and horseback riding, is also close by.
Facilities
This campground is primarily devoted to group sites, but eight single-family campsites are also available. The five group sites can accommodate up to 20, 50 or 60 people and multiple vehicles in adjacent parking areas. Sites are equipped with tables and and a campfire rings with grills. The facility has recently been upgraded with flush toilets and drinking water spigots, but electricity and garbage collection service is not available. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are gravel.
Natural Features
Large spruce trees and aspens cover the campground, offering partial shade. The canyon area has numerous lakes and streams, vibrant summer wildflowers, colorful fall foliage and abundant wildlife. Located just across W State Road 31 is Huntington Creek.
Nearby Attractions
The Huntington Canyon National Scenic Byway is part of the 86-mile Energy Loop. It offers stunning mountain and lake views as it tops 10,000 feet in elevation. The historic Stuart Guard Station Visitor Center is nearby, offering a glimpse of the 1930s life of a ranger and his family who once lived there. Exhibits of Civilian Conservation Corps projects and original equipment are also on display. Area information is available there as well. The Bridges Campground, Little Rock Campground, and Huntington Creek are also close by.
What the agency tells you
Off-road vehicle use is prohibited within the campground
Horses are not allowed within the campground
Click here for more information on the Manti-La Sal National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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 service is not available at this campground
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 5 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 9 of 11 sites
- Campfires
- 9 of 11 sites
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets · Vault Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS on 7 of 12 campsite records / VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 12 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 7 of 12 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Biking
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 245th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 22 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 9 of the 11 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
16 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 9 mapped sitesAll 16 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 9 of the 16 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. 11 of the 16 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Measured shade is NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC) read at the site’s own coordinate, 27% canopy or more, and only for the sites the agency gave no Shade value. It never changes the agency’s own shaded count beside it.
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $10–$33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | $10–$33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | $10–$33.97 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $10–$33.97 | ||||
| OLD | 001 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 133 ft | 336 ft | 279 ft | $40–$75 |
| OLD | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 133 ft | 211 ft | 350 ft | $10 |
| OLD | 003 | group standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 183 ft | 347 ft | 115 ft | $40–$75 |
| OLD | 004 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 209 ft | 487 ft | 100 ft | $10 |
| OLD | 005 | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 211 ft | 645 ft | 371 ft | $40–$75 |
| OLD | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 211 ft | 723 ft | 290 ft | $10 |
| OLD | 007 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 208 ft | 887 ft | 188 ft | $40–$75 |
| OLD | 008 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 129 ft | 946 ft | 27 ft | $10 |
| OLD | 009 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 129 ft | 1,009 ft | 155 ft | $40–$75 |
| OLD | XXX | unnamed record | 35 ft | $10–$33.97 | |||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $10–$33.97 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $10–$33.97 |
The agency files 5 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Little Rock CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 0.5 mi
Chute GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 1.3 mi
Bridges CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 1.5 mi
Big Rock GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 1.8 mi
Chute Group CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 2.5 mi
Forks of HuntingtonManti-La Sal National Forest · 2.6 miThe campground is located 21 miles from Huntington, Utah, along Highway 31.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Clear Creek, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 22°F, day 48°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 2°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
Old Folks Flat 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 →