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Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:15 UTC
A night
$25–$48When it reopens, per site
Sites
94In the agency’s record
64 ftLongest rig
1,330 ftElevation
288 ftWater · Youghiogheny River
12.8 miNW of Grantsville, MD
0%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 12 notices

In the agency’s own words

The Outflow Camping Area is located on Youghiogheny River Lake in the heart of the Laurel Highlands. The lake spans the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Clean waters, forested mountains and steep-sided valleys provide an unsurpassed setting for recreational opportunities. Keep reading

Recreation

Camping, fishing, boating, water skiing, hiking, biking, picnicking and sightseeing are the area's most popular activities. Boaters consider Youghiogheny River Lake, with its 16-mile length and channels up to one-half mile wide, the best powerboating and water skiing lake in southwestern Pennsylvania. Youghiogheny Lake's outflow area is renowned for its excellent trout fishing and is stocked from April to September each year. A fishing pier is located in the campground.

Facilities

The campground contains a variety of sites, including walk-to group sites, RV sites and tent-only sites. Electric hookups are available in many sites. Flush toilets, showers, drinking water and a dump station are provided. The park also offers an amphitheater and children's playground. Hammock Stations have been added to the Bike and Hike and Group Camping sites.

Natural Features

The country surrounding the lake is made up of narrow valleys and high rounded hills with steep slopes. Much of the land is covered with northern hardwoods including Beech, Sugar Maple, White Ash, Yellow Poplar and Basswood. A variety of wildlife makes its home around Youghiogheny River Lake, including deer, bear, turkey, grouse, rabbit and squirrel.

Nearby Attractions

Some of Pennsylvania and Maryland's finest state parks surround Youghiogheny Lake. Ohiopyle State Park is known for some of the best whitewater in the East and is often the location of national kayaking competitions. Cyclists enjoy the many miles of bike trails in the area. For the history buff, the area boasts many historical sites and parks. For sheer natural beauty, Youghiogheny Lake can't be beat.

What the agency tells you

Rule

Reservations must be made for the entire holiday weekend, Friday through Sunday.

Rule

Early checkout will not be refunded on holiday weekend reservations, Friday through Sunday.

Rule

All reservations and changes will need to be made through www.recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777

Everything else this campground posts · 9
Rule

Reservations must be made online or by calling the 1-877-444-6777

Rule

This is the Outflow Campground at Youghiogheny Lake, not the Tionesta Rec Area Campground at the Outflow at Tionesta Lake

Rule

Alcohol is prohibited

Rule

The release warning siren from hydropower plant will be heard in the campground

Rule

All sites are 100% reservable

Rule

Maximum of two tents or one tent and one trailer allowed per site

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Rule

Phone number for Resource Managers Office (814) 395-3242

Rule

Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
94 · 10 tent-only, 33 walk-in, 2 group
Hookups
36 electric, 5 water, 4 sewer
Longest rig
64 ft
Accessible sites
2
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Toilets
Flush Toilets
FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 66 campsite records
Drinking water
Yes
ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 66 campsite records
Dump station
Yes
recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Playground
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026
Water, toilets and showers: counted from this campground’s own campsite records, shown above · Sep 12, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, River
Biking
Fishing
Hiking
Water access
Night sky · 32nd darkest of 48 in PA
Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Fayette County
Peak color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:15 UTC

recreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend

Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.

Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night, when it reopens$25–$48plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
What’s open near here
Tell me when it reopens

Watch for it to come back

One email when the agency reopens it, plus More Than Just Parks dispatches. Unsubscribe any time.

We check the agency’s own record once an hour, at 40 minutes past, and write the first time it stops saying closed.

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’ll write once, when the agency reopens it.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Every line of the receipt · 14

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night, when it reopens$25–$48
Standard Nonelectric$25
Tent Only Nonelectric$25
Standard Electric$35
Full Hook-Up$48
Group area, a night$65
Rates for the season the campground is in now, Apr 1, 2026 to Oct 5, 2026.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 · 4
Why this page can’t say why

recreation.gov lists every site at Outflow Camping closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so this page can’t say why, and it won’t fill the gap with a guess. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one: the reservations its record still carries were taken before the sites were closed.

Closure: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers status record · Oct 17, 2026

There’s no notice to quote and no reason to argue with, so this page offers you the watch and the list below, and no letter.

Open within 60 miles · 4

The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.

Open near here: Agency-published status, in the CAMPANAC campground index · Oct 17, 2026

recreation.gov availability, read 16:15 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

96 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 76 mapped sites
45 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
40%of tent sites sit clear of electric or RV sites
Least roomLoop MAPL 007 22 ftLoop MAPL 008 22 ftLoop MAPL 017 24 ft

11 sites share one published coordinate and are left out of the rankings.

All 96 records

76 of 96 records located
Standard15Tent only10RV / electric36Walk, hike or boat in12Group2Day use1
SleepsTakes aUp to

Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 76 of the 96 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. 57 of the 96 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.

Hike and BikeHike and Bike Siteshike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 1hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 10hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 11hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 12hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 13hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 14hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 15hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 16hike to138 ft200 ftHen Run16 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 17hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 18hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 19hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 2hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 20hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 21hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 22hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 23hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 24hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 25hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 26hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 27hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 28hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 29hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 3hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 30hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 4hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 5hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 6hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 7hike to136 ft263 ft
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 8hike to
Hike and BikeHike and Bike Sites - 9hike to
LOCU022standard electric39 ft50 amp43 ft199 ft261 ft$35–$48
LOCU023standard electric43 ft30 amp59 ft244 ft317 ft$35–$48
LOCU024standard electric51 ft30 amp43 ft240 ft246 ft$35–$48
LOCU025standard electric44 ft30 amp48 ft305 ft270 ft$35–$48
LOCU026standard electric48 ft30 amp48 ft297 ft237 ft$35–$48
LOCU027standard electric46 ft30 amp44 ft334 ft240 ft$35–$48
LOCU028standard electric52 ft30 amp48 ft344 ft246 ft$35–$48
LOCU029tent only nonelectric44 ft362 ft218 ft$25
LOCU030tent only nonelectric47 ft411 ft271 ft$25
LOCU031tent only nonelectric47 ft456 ft266 ft$25
LOCU032tent only nonelectric39 ft436 ft219 ft$25
LOCU033tent only nonelectric39 ft397 ft199 ft$25
LOCU034standard electric40 ft30 amp57 ft318 ft172 ft$35–$48
LOCU035tent only nonelectric89 ft367 ft88 ft$25
LOCU036rv electric56 ft50 amp38 ft293 ft115 ft
LOCU037standard electric50 ft50 amp59 ft245 ft266 ft$35–$48
LOCU038standard electric52 ft50 amp76 ft194 ft218 ft$35–$48
LOCU039standard electric60 ft30 amp39 ft246 ft142 ft$35–$48
LOCU041standard electric64 ft30 amp31 ft253 ft104 ft$35–$48
LOCU042rv electric49 ft50 amp31 ft281 ft81 ft
MAPL001rv electric61 ft30 amp56 ft115 ft148 ft
MAPL002standard electric48 ft50 amp33 ft148 ft79 ft$35–$48
MAPL003standard electric51 ft30 amp48 ft170 ft120 ft$35–$48
MAPL004standard electric50 ft50 amp33 ft177 ft54 ft$35–$48
MAPL005standard electric39 ft30 amp48 ft218 ft101 ft$35–$48
MAPL006standard electric47 ft30 amp42 ft269 ft112 ft$35–$48
MAPL007standard electric46 ft30 amp22 ft311 ft132 ft$35–$48
MAPL008standard electric38 ft30 amp22 ft328 ft133 ft$35–$48
MAPL009standard electric42 ft30 amp34 ft328 ft115 ft$35–$48
MAPL010standard electric40 ft30 amp56 ft268 ft41 ft$35–$48
MAPL011standard electric34 ft30 amp55 ft341 ft113 ft$35–$48
MAPL012standard electric40 ft30 amp31 ft266 ft63 ft$35–$48
MAPL013standard electric42 ft30 amp55 ft347 ft139 ft$35–$48
MAPL014standard electric41 ft30 amp48 ft349 ft174 ft$35–$48
MAPL015standard electric41 ft30 amp31 ft278 ft94 ft$35–$48
MAPL016standard electric38 ft30 amp44 ft314 ft181 ft$35–$48
MAPL017standard electric38 ft30 amp24 ft276 ft189 ft$35–$48
MAPL018standard electric39 ft30 amp43 ft242 ft130 ft$35–$48
MAPL019standard electric39 ft30 amp24 ft254 ft193 ft$35–$48
MAPL020standard electric37 ft30 amp43 ft199 ft124 ft$35–$48
MAPL021standard electric47 ft50 amp69 ft156 ft98 ft$35–$48
OCAM2Agroup walk to422 ft226 ft656 ft
PavilionConstitution Tree Pavilionday useFlush Toilets listed
REAR1Agroup walk to30 amp248 ft261 ft251 ft
REARJones Pavilionday use30 ampyes138 ft80 ftHen Run131 ft
SPRU040standard nonelectric46 ft46 ft176 ft134 ft$25
SPRU043standard nonelectric51 ftyes59 ft204 ft96 ft$25
SPRU044standard nonelectric40 ftyes72 ft256 ftHen Run65 ft$25
SPRU045tent only nonelectric38 ft219 ftHen Run115 ft$25
SPRU046tent only nonelectric49 ft184 ftHen Run136 ft$25
SPRU047tent only nonelectric38 ft180 ftHen Run149 ft$25
SPRU048tent only nonelectric49 ft136 ftHen Run184 ft$25
SPRU049standard nonelectric50 ft41 ft141 ftHen Run190 ft$25
SPRU050standard nonelectric62 ft46 ft73 ftHen Run249 ft$25
SPRU051standard nonelectric45 ft43 ft70 ftHen Run260 ft$25
SPRU052standard nonelectric45 ft43 ft54 ftHen Run263 ft$25
SPRU053standard nonelectric47 ft42 ft135 ftHen Run216 ft$25
SPRU054standard nonelectric45 ft43 ft69 ftHen Run288 ft$25
SPRU055rv electric50 ft50 amp42 ft127 ft214 ft
SPRU056standard nonelectric43 ft53 ft126 ft181 ft$25
SPRU057standard nonelectric45 ft46 ft138 ft163 ft$25
SPRU058standard nonelectric49 ft62 ft157 ft180 ft$25
SYCA059standard nonelectric49 ft45 ft164 ft327 ft$25
SYCA060standard nonelectric52 ft45 ft125 ft304 ft$25
SYCA061standard nonelectric50 ft62 ft82 ft282 ft$25

The agency files 2 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It files them as day use. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

25 of 96 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Coordinate39.80500, -79.36694
The phone877-444-6777
The agency’s pageOfficial page ↗

Where it is

Getting there

Route 281 South from points north: continue south through Confluence and over the Casselman & Youghiogheny Rivers. Make an immediate left into the campground.

Route 281 North from Route 40: continue north 7 miles past the Youghiogheny River Lake entrance. Make next right into the campground.

Route 523 North from Route 40: continue north 7 miles to Confluence. Turn left onto Route 281 South, over the Casselman & Youghiogheny Rivers. Make next left into the campground.

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today51°Partly Sunny5% rain
Tonight29°Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday60°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Sunday Night33°Clear then Areas Of Frost

NWS forecast for Confluence, PA

Typical weather

Typical October night 40°F, day 64°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: CONFLUENCE 1 SW DAM, PA (USC00361705), 0.4 miles away and 160 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Guy Reschenthaler, official portrait

Outflow Camping is in Pennsylvania’s 14th congressional district. Its representative, Guy Reschenthaler (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: recreation.gov lists every site here closed on Friday and Saturday night (read 16:15 UTC). U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has published no closure notice we hold, so the reason isn’t on this page. A closed night isn’t a sold-out one, and the reservations the record still carries predate the closure. That reading is ours, off the agency’s own booking record.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026
Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported peak color · Oct 15, 2026
Cell signal: the Army Corps’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: Confluence, PA, 0.1 mi WSW. Straight line.