Pine Lake Campground
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $24From, per site
- Sites
- 32All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Pine Lake Campground is located next to its scenic namesake lake high on the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 8,100 feet. Visitors enjoy canoeing, fishing and exploring local hiking and off-road vehicle trails. Keep reading
Recreation
A short trail leads from the campground to Pine Lake, which offers excellent canoeing and kayaking, as well as fishing for rainbow, cutthroat and brook trout. Hiking and off-road vehicle trails are plentiful within the area, however off-road vehicles are not allowed in the campground. The Pine Lake OHV Trailhead is located adjacent to the campground. A loading ramp is provided.
Facilities
The campground offers four group sites and 17 family sites. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A well-maintained gravel road leads to the campground, providing good access for cars and RVs alike.
Natural Features
Pine Lake is situated at the foot of beautifully forested peaks banded with red and white layers of sandstone. The campground is nestled among a forest of spruce and towering ponderosa pines, and is adjacent to Pine Lake.
Nearby Attractions
Bryce Canyon National Park is approximately 30 minutes from the campground, offering breathtaking scenery and excellent hiking opportunities. Kodachrome Basin State Park is an hour away, with towering rock spires, a natural arch and great hiking trails.
What the agency tells you
Check in time is 2:00pm and Check out time is 11:00am It is imperative that you are clear from the site at 11:00am on your check out day so the host can come prepare the site for the next event. Please don't be the group that makes the incoming group have to wait.
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
Additional sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Click here for more information on the Dixie 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
- 32 · 4 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Paved pads
- 3 of 32
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…sites and 17 family sites. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A well-maintained…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…sites. Accessible vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A well-maintained gravel road leads…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Auto Touring
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Mountain biking
- Off Road Vehicle Trails
- Water access
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 48th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
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 rate for this season, $24 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
32 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 32 mapped sitesAll 32 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 32 of the 32 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. 31 of the 32 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Group | Clay Creek | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 415 ft | 373 ft | 88 ft | $68–$130 |
| Group | Johns Valley | group standard area nonelectric | 20 ft | 1428 ft | 314 ft | 265 ft | |
| Group | Wild Iris | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 361 ft | 817 ft | 147 ft | $68–$130 |
| Group | Yellow Pine | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 199 ft | 550 ft | 93 ft | $68–$130 |
| SING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 192 ft | 295 ft | $24 |
| SING | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 203 ft | 212 ft | $24 |
| SING | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 154 ft | 406 ft | 148 ft | $24 |
| SING | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 209 ft | 154 ft | 280 ft | $24 |
| SING | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 135 ft | 417 ft | 308 ft | $24 |
| SING | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 179 ft | 266 ft | 410 ft | $24 |
| SING | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 114 ft | 376 ft | 419 ft | $24 |
| SING | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 173 ft | 161 ft | 366 ft | $24 |
| SING | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 90 ft | 85 ft | 224 ft | $24 |
| SING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 90 ft | 91 ft | 139 ft | $24 |
| SING | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 65 ft | 122 ft | $24 |
| SING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 113 ft | 11 ft | 231 ft | $24 |
| SING | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 126 ft | 22 ft | 351 ft | $24 |
| SING | 019 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 129 ft | 54 ft | 499 ft | $24 |
| SING | 020 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 129 ft | 47 ft | 628 ft | $24 |
| SING | 021 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 165 ft | 174 ft | 769 ft | $24 |
| SING | 022 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 165 ft | 330 ft | 765 ft | $24 |
| SING | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 118 ft | 333 ft | 541 ft | $24 |
| SING | 024 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 118 ft | 262 ft | 423 ft | $24 |
| SING | 025 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 148 ft | 223 ft | 278 ft | $24 |
| SING | 026 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 140 ft | 267 ft | 180 ft | $24 |
| SING | 027 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 119 ft | 306 ft | 146 ft | $24 |
| SING | 028 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 119 ft | 415 ft | 257 ft | $24 |
| SING | 029 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 347 ft | 276 ft | $24 |
| SING | 030 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 422 ft | 361 ft | $24 |
| SING | 031 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 102 ft | 486 ft | 423 ft | $24 |
| SING | 032 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 154 ft | 457 ft | 197 ft | $24 |
| SING | 033 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 135 ft | 342 ft | 173 ft | $24 |
25 of 32 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
North CampgroundBryce Canyon National Park · 14 mi
North Campground (UT)Bryce Canyon National Park · 14 mi
Sunset Campground (UT)Bryce Canyon National Park · 14 mi
Barker Recreation AreaDixie National Forest · 14 miTravel Utah Highway 12 to the junction with SR 63 and CR 1660. Turn north at sign pointing toward Antimony. Travel 10.5 miles and turn right at Pine Lake turnoff. Travel 5.5 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tropic, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 26°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 6°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
Pine Lake 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 →