U.S. Forest Service · Wasatch National Forest · UT
Ponderosa Group Campground
The agency doesn’t say how you get a siteIts record carries no access type, so treat it as a place to phone before you drive.
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
7,000 ftElevation
391 ftWater · Beaver Creek
3 miSE of Kamas, UT
0%Tree cover
Bortle 4Night sky · 409th darkest of 458 in UT
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there
In the agency’s own words
This group campground is located off the Mirror Lake Scenic Highway (Highway 150) This campground has no water.
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
Facilities
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…(Highway 150) This campground has no water.”
Source: read from the agency description, shown above · Sep 12, 2026
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake
- Fall color · reported 8 days ago, 34 km away
- Peak color
Source: Stated in the agency description
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (34 km) · Oct 9, 2026
Phone before you drive
recreation.gov publishes no availability for a campground you can’t reserve, so there’s no thirty-night reading to draw here. The season bar above is what the agency does publish.
Booking window6 months outBooking opens 6 months ahead; today unlocks arrivals through April 16, 2027. The agency publishes no reservable season in the record we hold, so the window may close earlier than that.recreation.gov
Runs itU.S. Forest Servicethe agency’s record
Every line of the receipt · 3
What you actually pay
The sign priceU.S. Forest Service
The U.S. Forest Service publishes no per-night rate for this campground that we can read, so there’s no sign price to print. That’s a gap in the record, not a free campground.
The booking feerecreation.gov
We hold no recreation.gov booking record for this campground, so we can’t say whether a booking fee applies.
What a stay costs
The agency publishes no nightly rate for this campground, so there’s no total to show.
How we know this receipt · 4
Booking fee, change fee, cancellation fee, no-show: Rules and Reservation Policies, Recreation.gov, the published fee schedule, curated by hand into lib/reservation-fee-schedule.json (9 rows, each carrying its own verbatim sentence). The publisher states these policies were last updated September 2019. · Sep 9, 2026
The two totals: Derived by CAMPANAC by adding the agency’s own published nightly rate to recreation.gov’s own published reservation fee. Both components are cited above; the addition is ours and is shown only where every component is known. · Sep 9, 2026
Who keeps the booking fee: Recreation.gov facility policy text, Dead Swede Campground (facility 234221) · Not on the national policy page. This is agency policy text recreation.gov publishes on individual campground pages; this site holds it verbatim on 45 active campgrounds (campground_rules.cancellation_description, scripts/load-facility-rules.mjs). · Sep 9, 2026
The contract: Reservation Gods: Who Stole Our Campsites and Sold Them Back to Us, More Than Just Parks, April 2025 · Apr 1, 2025
Source: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
record Aug 24, 2026 · How we know all this
Getting there
the map and the coordinate
Where it is
Also near here
Yellow Pine Campground (UT)Wasatch National Forest · 1.0 mi
Shingle Creek ATV CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 3.6 mi
Pine Valley North Wasatch CachWasatch National Forest · 4.8 mi
Lower Provo CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 4.8 mi
Ponderosa Group CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 5.9 mi
Ledgefork Guard StationWasatch National Forest · 9.1 mi
Yellow Pine Campground (UT)Wasatch National Forest · 1.0 miShingle Creek ATV CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 3.6 miPine Valley North Wasatch CachWasatch National Forest · 4.8 miLower Provo CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 4.8 miPonderosa Group CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 5.9 miLedgefork Guard StationWasatch National Forest · 9.1 miSource: USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · Aug 24, 2026
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
Overnight36°Mostly Clear
Saturday62°Sunny
Saturday Night37°Mostly Clear
Sunday59°Mostly Sunny6% rain
NWS forecast for Samak, UT
Source: National Weather Service, SLC forecast office · Oct 17, 2026
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 59°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 15°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: KAMAS, UT (USC00424467), 5 miles away and 519 ft lower
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.
Source: USFS Inventoried Roadless Areas via MTJP Roadless Map · Jul 29, 2026
Who answers for this land
Ponderosa Group Campground 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 →
How we know
every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Forest Service publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate.
Elevation: USGS 3DEP elevation point query at this campground’s coordinate · Sep 7, 2026
Tree cover: NLCD Tree Canopy Cover 2024 (USDA Forest Service / MRLC), one 30 m cell at this coordinate · Sep 9, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by distance (34 km) · Oct 9, 2026
Reported by: iNaturalist fall color observations, reported peak color · Oct 9, 2026
Cell signal: the Forest Service’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: Samak, UT, 1.6 mi ESE (a census designated place). Straight line.