Pine Valley Recreation Area
- Right now
- Closedrecreation.gov lists every site closed this weekend, read 16:08 UTC
- A night
- $23–$60When it reopens, per site
- Sites
- 64In the agency’s record
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 11 notices
In the agency’s own words
A location closure has been issued due to a wildfire that started by lightning, the facility is closed at this time. The area and facilities are under rehabilitation and closed to the public. Please consider visiting one of our many other amazing campgrounds on the Dixie National Forest including Duck Creek, Spruces, Navajo Lake, Te-Ah, Panguitch Lake and many more, Please see other locations on Recreation.gov or visit the Dixie National Forest webpage for additional details https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/dixie . Please check back for location closure updates. Keep reading
Pine Valley Recreation Area is situated in a beautiful valley surrounded by the Pine Valley Mountains. There are several campgrounds with sites for single families, large groups, motor-homes, and horses. At an elevation of 6,900 feet the valley offers a great escape from the heat of the Southern Utah desert. Visitors enjoy fishing at nearby Pine Valley Reservoir and exploring local trails.
Recreation
Hiking and horse trails are abundant in Pine Valley. Trails vary in length from 2 to 35 miles. Some trails allow mountain biking. Shoreline fishing for rainbow trout is a popular activity on the lake. Flotation devices - canoes, paddle boards, inner tubes, etc. -are not allowed on the lake. Pine Valley Mountain Wilderness is adjacent to the recreation area. Trails in the area include: Brown's Point Trail Equestrian Trail Whipple Trail Pine Valley Canal Trail Gardner Peak Trail Facilities Located within the Pine Valley Recreation Area are six overnight family campgrounds, two overnight group areas, four day-use group sites and an amphitheater. Dean Gardner, Equestrian, and Yellow Pine family campgrounds are available for reservations. Mitt Moody, Crackfoot and Ebenezer Bryce Campgrounds are available on a first-come basis. The family campgrounds offer several single and double-family sites, all of which contain picnic tables, fire rings with grills, utility tables, tent pads and concrete site pads. All group sites, both overnight and day-use are available for reservations. The Effie Beckstrom area offers two overnight sites, accommodating 80 people each. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Thomas Forsyth day-use area offers four picnic areas for groups ranging in size from 35-150 people. This beautiful facility contains large picnic tables, grills and campfire circles. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. Volleyball courts and horseshoe pits are on-site. Large parking areas are paved. The Pine Valley Equestrian Campground is designed to support campers traveling with horses. Each reservable site is equipped with corrals to accommodate equestrian needs, offering a safe and functional space for both riders and their animals. To preserve this purpose, campsites in the Equestrian Campground are reserved exclusively for campers with horses until 6:00 PM daily. We kindly ask that non-equestrian visitors respect this window, allowing equestrian users priority access to these specialized facilities. After 6:00 PM, any remaining sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis. OHV/ATV's including street legal are not allowed within the Pine Valley Recreation Area (they must be trailered at all times).
Natural Features
A beautiful forest of ponderosa pine and oak covers the area, offering partial shade. Mountain mahogany, juniper and sagebrush dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Zions National Park, one of Utah's most famous national parks, featuring dramatic red cliffs, canyon hikes and scenic drives through high desert and river valley. Other nearby attractions include Sand Hallow State Park, St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm, and Snow Canyon State Park.
What the agency tells you
Currently closed for the 2026 season due to impacts from the Forsyth Wildland Fire which started from lighting on June 19, 2025.
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
This is Pine Valley Recreation Area on the Dixie National Forest near St. George, Utah; is this the site you are requesting?
Everything else this campground posts · 8
Pine Valley Reservoir is a limited use lake. It is restricted to shoreline fishing. Swimming, canoeing, paddle boarding, boating, flotation devices, etc. are NOT allowed.
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
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.PineValley@AmericanLL.com
Click here to learn more about the Dixie National Forest
The Pine Valley Equestrian Campground is designed to support campers traveling with horses. Each reservable site is equipped with corrals to accommodate equestrian needs, offering a safe and functional space for both riders and their animals.
To preserve this purpose, campsites in the Equestrian Campground are reserved exclusively for campers with horses until 6:00 PM daily. We kindly ask that non-equestrian visitors respect this window, allowing equestrian users priority access to these specialized facilities. After 6:00 PM, any remaining sites may be available on a first-come, first-served basis.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 64 · 5 tent-only, 2 group, 7 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 125 ft
- Paved pads
- 59 of 64
- Accessible sites
- 59
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 69 campsite records, ACCESSIBLE VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 69 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER on 1 of 69 campsite records
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, River, Creek, Beach
- Amphitheater
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horse Camping
- Horseback riding
- Night sky · 356th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 4
Nothing to book until it reopensread 16:08 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.
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.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
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 Pine Valley Recreation Area closed this Friday and Saturday night. The U.S. Forest Service 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.
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 · 1
The agency’s own word that these are open, not our reading of a season.
- Watchman CampgroundZion National Park · 29 mi · 190 sites
recreation.gov availability, read 16:08 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
69 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 64 mapped sitesAll 69 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 69 of the 69 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. 63 of the 69 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.
| Amphitheater | Amphitheater | day use | 20 amp | yes | 273 ft | 211 ft | 204 ft | ||
| Crackfoot | C01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 148 ft | 615 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 109 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C02 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | yes | 105 ft | 699 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 112 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C03 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 148 ft | 496 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 126 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C04 | standard nonelectric | 58 ft | yes | 83 ft | 596 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 107 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C05 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 92 ft | 383 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 218 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C06 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 83 ft | 533 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 168 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C07 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 54 ft | 398 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 121 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C08 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 226 ft | 516 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 140 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C09 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 156 ft | 287 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 151 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C10 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 54 ft | 367 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 94 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 74 ft | 330 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 183 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C12 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 93 ft | 157 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 275 ft | $30–$60 | ||
| Crackfoot | C13 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 92 ft | 291 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 198 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C14 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | yes | 93 ft | 133 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 213 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C15 | standard nonelectric | 44 ft | yes | 90 ft | 141 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 120 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C16 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 90 ft | 144 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 115 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C17 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 173 ft | 361 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 136 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C18 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 165 ft | 542 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 264 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Crackfoot | C19 | tent only nonelectric | yes | 190 ft | 324 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 292 ft | $23 | ||
| Crackfoot | C20 | tent only nonelectric | 202 ft | 101 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 399 ft | $23 | |||
| Crackfoot | C21 | tent only nonelectric | 190 ft | 281 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 481 ft | $23 | |||
| Crackfoot | C22 | tent only nonelectric | 202 ft | 45 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 571 ft | $23 | |||
| Crackfoot | C23 | tent only nonelectric | 250 ft | 208 ftRight Fork Santa Clara River | 725 ft | $23 | |||
| DEAN GARDNER | D01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 189 ft | 328 ft | 320 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D02 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | yes | 107 ft | 488 ft | 399 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D03 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 137 ft | 489 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 383 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D04 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 107 ft | 588 ft | 471 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D05 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 125 ft | 596 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 375 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D06 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | yes | 125 ft | 473 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 285 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D07 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | yes | 115 ft | 502 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 159 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D08 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 115 ft | 407 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 151 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D09 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 236 ft | 261 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 213 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D10 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | yes | 57 ft | 219 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 208 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D11 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 101 ft | 139 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 227 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D12 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 63 ft | 224 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 164 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D13 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 57 ft | 231 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 248 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D14 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 108 ft | 141 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 345 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D15 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 109 ft | 258 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 340 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D16 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | yes | 108 ft | 146 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 394 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D17 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 123 ft | 274 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 224 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D18 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | yes | 123 ft | 154 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 268 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D19 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | yes | 138 ft | 241 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 86 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D20 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | yes | 147 ft | 121 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 109 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D21 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 157 ft | 268 ftPine Valley Reservoir | 93 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D22 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 103 ft | 278 ft | 264 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D23 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | yes | 103 ft | 203 ft | 319 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D24 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | yes | 111 ft | 135 ft | 361 ft | $30–$60 | |
| DEAN GARDNER | D25 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 111 ft | 170 ft | 330 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Effie Beckstrom Group Area | EB East | group standard nonelectric | 52 ft | yes | 425 ft | 315 ft | 218 ft | $180–$195 | |
| Effie Beckstrom Group Area | EB West | group standard nonelectric | 46 ft | yes | 425 ft | 338 ft | 206 ft | $180–$195 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E01 | equestrian nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 239 ft | 1,133 ft | 464 ft | $30–$60 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E02 | equestrian nonelectric | 50 ft | yes | 239 ft | 1,349 ft | 431 ft | $30–$60 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E03 | equestrian nonelectric | 110 ft | yes | 242 ft | 1,450 ft | 231 ft | $30–$60 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E09 | equestrian nonelectric | 75 ft | yes | 273 ft | 1,692 ft | 299 ft | $30–$60 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E10 | equestrian nonelectric | 125 ft | yes | 273 ft | 1,449 ft | 93 ft | $30–$60 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E12 | equestrian nonelectric | 55 ft | yes | 312 ft | 1,083 ft | 322 ft | $30–$60 | |
| EQUESTRIAN | E13 | equestrian nonelectric | 65 ft | yes | 312 ft | 827 ft | 320 ft | $30–$60 | |
| THOMAS FORSYTH | A | day use | 20 ft | yes | 303 ft | 147 ft | $60–$68 | ||
| THOMAS FORSYTH | B | day use | 20 ft | yes | 501 ft | 225 ft | $60–$68 | ||
| THOMAS FORSYTH | C | day use | 20 ft | yes | 121 ft | 72 ft | $60–$68 | ||
| THOMAS FORSYTH | D | day use | 20 ft | yes | 655 ft | 263 ft | $60–$68 | ||
| Yellow Pine | Y01 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 182 ft | 312 ft | 246 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Yellow Pine | Y02 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | yes | 89 ft | 343 ft | 353 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Yellow Pine | Y03 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | yes | 89 ft | 405 ft | 385 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Yellow Pine | Y04 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | yes | 121 ft | 585 ft | 352 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Yellow Pine | Y05 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | yes | 80 ft | 503 ft | 264 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Yellow Pine | Y06 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | yes | 80 ft | 564 ft | 215 ft | $30–$60 | |
| Yellow Pine | YHOST | type not stated | 40 ft | yes | 370 ft | 167 ft |
The agency files 5 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 69 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Pine Valley Guard StationDixie National Forest · 0.2 miMitt Moody CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.5 miDean Gardner CampgroundDixie National Forest · 0.6 miEbenezer Bryce CampgroundDixie National Forest · 1.1 miFrom St. George, Utah, go north on Highway 18 to Central. Take a right on Forest Highway 35 towards Pine Valley. Take a left on Main Street and go 3 miles to the recreation area.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Pine Valley, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 39°F, day 65°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 21°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 Valley Recreation Area 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 →