Panguitch Lake
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $23–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 7167 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices
In the agency’s own words
Panguitch Lake Campground is located 14 miles southwest of Panguitch, Utah. Some of the state's largest rainbow trout are fished from the lake each year, and aptly so; "Panguitch" comes from the Paiute word meaning "big fish." Visitors also enjoy canoeing and exploring the Panguitch Lake OHV Trail System. Keep reading
Recreation
Panguitch Lake offers great fishing for rainbow, brook, cutthroat and brown trout. Canoeing and kyacking are a popular activity. Two public boat ramps are located on the lake, one on the south shore and the other on the north shore at Wildlife Point. The Markagunt OHV trail system at Panguitch Lake offers 300 miles of routes and trails. Other activities include hiking, biking, horseback riding and hunting.
Facilities
The campground is located on both the north side and the south side of the highway. The Panguitch lake north is the larger of the two, with single and double campsites and three group sites. The south side is strictly for tent camping (no reservations). Amenities include flush toilets and drinking water. There are no hook-ups available so please fill your tanks at the dumpstation just east of the campground prior to setting up. A horseshoe pit and a volleyball court are on-site, though campers must provide their own net and ball. An amphitheater near the Panguitch group site is available upon request. The campground road and parking spurs are paved. Accessible sites area available on the north side of the campground. No OHV access in or out of the campground including street legal, all OHV's must be trailered.
Natural Features
The lake is situated high on the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 8,400 feet. A forest of ponderosa pines covers the campground, which lies on a hillside about a quarter-mile above the lake. Deer and elk are often seen in the area.
Nearby Attractions
Panguitch Lake has two public boat landings and is less than 5 minutes from the campground. Great fishing from both a boat and the shore or just hanging out on the beach is enjoyed by many! Panguitch Lake Campground is just 14 miles from Cedar Breaks National Monument, with hiking trails, guided tours, wildflower walks, star gazing and awesome views of the Cedar Breaks Amphitheater. Just outside Cedar Breaks is the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness Area, where hikers will find 10 miles of trails and the Twisted Forest, a stand of ancient bristlecone pine. Bryce Canyon National Park is 30 minutes away, with breathtaking scenery and excellent hiking and horse ridng opportunities.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
No showers, electricity or hookups available at this campground
Call Utah Dept. of Natural Resources for fishing, lake conditions, and vessel size allowed.
Everything else this campground posts · 10
Amphitheater is reservable with the camp host upon arrival.
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
OHV/ATV's are not allowed in the campground including street legal, they must be trailered at all times.
Food services, lodging, showers, groceries, gasoline and boat rentals available at commercial facilities around the lake.
Depending on weather conditions, the campground may be open for walk-in camping by May 14; after September 30, the south loop only will remain open for dry camping until the snow falls.
Click here to learn more about the Dixie National Forest
Check out the forest's campground description for specific information to Fish Your National Forest
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.CedarCity@AmericanLL.com
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 71 · 18 tent-only, 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Paved pads
- 33 of 71
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Not allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- FLUSH TOILETS (SEASONAL) on 2 of 71 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 2 of 71 campsite records, WATER SPIGOT on 1 of 71 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Beach
- Amphitheater
- Auto Touring
- Biking
- Boating
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Mountain biking
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Scenic drives
- Stargazing
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 194th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 16 km away
- Peak color
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 67 of the 71 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.
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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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $23–$60 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
71 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 48 mapped sitesAll 71 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 67 of the 71 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.
| BLUE | Blue Springs | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 169 ft | 288 ftBlue Spring Creek | $66–$92 |
| EVER | Evergreen | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 247 ft | 412 ft | $66–$92 |
| NORT | 001 | tent only nonelectric | 89 ft | 379 ft | $23 | |
| NORT | 002 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 183 ft | 181 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 74 ft | 358 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 004 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 141 ft | 280 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 67 ft | 507 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 006 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 55 ft | 431 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 007 | standard nonelectric | 57 ft | 67 ft | 565 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 55 ft | 486 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 009 | type not stated | 47 ft | 495 ft | ||
| NORT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 150 ft | 563 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 011 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 129 ft | 510 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 012 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 114 ft | 664 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 013 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 137 ft | 648 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 014 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 144 ft | 647 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 015 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 156 ft | 464 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 016 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 155 ft | 523 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 017 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 156 ft | 356 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 018 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 114 ft | 457 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 136 ft | 398 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 020 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 186 ft | 222 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 021 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| NORT | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| NORT | 023 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 149 ft | 230 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 024 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 333 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 025 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 76 ft | 186 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 53 ft | 305 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 027 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 76 ft | 163 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 028 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 80 ft | 201 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 148 ft | 367 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 030 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 105 ft | 425 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 031 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 53 ft | 354 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 032 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 73 ft | 402 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 033 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 125 ft | 515 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 035 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 94 ft | 556 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 036 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 93 ft | 638 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 037 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 107 ft | 530 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 038 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 88 ft | 648 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 039 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 78 ft | 571 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 040 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 624 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 041 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 88 ft | 695 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 042 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 69 ft | 676 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 043 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 107 ft | 760 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 044 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 121 ft | 852 ftBlue Spring Creek | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 045 | standard nonelectric | 54 ft | 139 ft | 822 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 046 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 101 ft | 737 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 047 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 101 ft | 675 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 048 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 112 ft | 712 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | 049 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 165 ft | 910 ft | $30–$60 |
| NORT | Discontinued Site | type not stated | 960 ft | |||
| NORT | Discontinued Site | type not stated | 40 ft | 1,021 ft | ||
| PANG | Panguitch | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 155 ft | 648 ft | $66–$92 |
| South | 01 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 02 | type not stated | ||||
| South | 03 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 04 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 05 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 06 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 07 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 08 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 09 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 10 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 11 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 12 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 13 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 14 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 15 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 16 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 17 | tent only nonelectric | $23 | |||
| South | 18 | tent only nonelectric | $23 |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 71 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
White BridgeDixie National Forest · 4.9 miYankee Meadow CampgroundDixie National Forest · 6.9 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 12 mi
Duck CreekDixie National Forest · 13 miDuck Creek CampgroundDixie National Forest · 13 mi
Spruces Campground (Dixie NF)Dixie National Forest · 14 miFrom Panguitch, Utah, take Highway 143 southwest 14 miles. Campground is on the north side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Brian Head, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 32°F, day 58°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 17°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
Panguitch Lake 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 →