Potters Pond
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10–$25Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2219 on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Potters Pond Campground is located in a high mountain valley next to two scenic ponds, at an elevation of 8,900 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing, horseback riding and exploring the surrounding off-road vehicle trails. Keep reading
Recreation
The ponds offer great canoeing and rainbow trout fishing. Horseback riding, hiking and mountain biking are popular in the area as well. The expansive Arapeen OHV Trail System can be accessed from the campground and has more than 350 miles of designated, well-maintained trails for off-road vehicles. The trails are suitable for all riding levels.
Facilities
This campground offers a variety of campsites, including single, double and equestrian sites. Some sites have views of the ponds and most sites are shaded. Sites are equipped with tables and campfire rings with grills. Vault toilets are provided, but there is no water, electricity or trash collection available within the campground. Visitors will need to bring their own water, as well as pack out all garbage. Roads and parking spurs within the campground are dirt. The campground can be reached via the well-maintained dirt and gravel Miller Flat Road, which provides relatively easy access for cars and RVs.
Natural Features
Potters Pond lies in Upper Joe's Valley in Central Utah. Pine trees and wild grasses cover the area, while aspens dot the surrounding mountainsides.
Charges & Cancellations
A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation. Late cancellations are subject to additional fees. For full details see NRRS Reservation Policy.
What the agency tells you
Drinking water is not available at the campground
Equestrian sites 16-19 are available for reservation and first-come, first-served use by all visitors. Those camping with horses must use these four sites.
Campsites that are not reserved are available on a first-come, first-served basis, for $3 per vehicle
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Click here for more information on the Manti-La Sal 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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 1 group, 4 equestrian
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 17 of 20 sites
- Campfires
- 19 of 22 sites
- Shade
- 16 of 19 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 19 of 22 campsite records
- Drinking water
- None, bring your own
- “…the campground. Visitors will need to bring their own water, as well as pack out all garbage. Roads and parking…”
Around the campground
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Hunting
- Night sky · 236th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:10 UTC
recreation.gov lists 19 of the 22 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
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.
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 · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$25 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.
“A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation.” · this campground’s own terms
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 · 6
recreation.gov availability, read 15:10 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
22 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 19 mapped sitesAll 22 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 19 of the 22 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. 22 of the 22 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| POTTERS PONDS | 001 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 181 ft | 257 ftPotters Ponds | 122 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 002 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 181 ft | 421 ft | 172 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 003 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 117 ft | 535 ft | 214 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 004 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 130 ft | 713 ft | 235 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 005 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 117 ft | 498 ft | 205 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 006 | group standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 309 ft | 374 ft | 204 ft | $15–$40 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 130 ft | 620 ft | 113 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 398 ft | 518 ft | 545 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 323 ft | 852 ft | 1,279 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 323 ft | 529 ft | 1,130 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 225 ft | 132 ftPotters Ponds | 198 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 147 ft | 162 ft | 173 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 013 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 147 ft | 238 ft | 81 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 216 ft | under 10 ft | 181 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 015 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 249 ft | 139 ft | 275 ft | $10 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 016 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 202 ft | 110 ft | 298 ft | $15–$25 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 017 | equestrian nonelectric | 30 ft | 202 ft | 206 ft | 97 ft | $15–$25 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 018 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 141 ft | 231 ft | 310 ft | $15–$25 |
| POTTERS PONDS | 019 | equestrian nonelectric | 40 ft | 141 ft | 347 ft | 319 ft | $15–$25 |
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $10–$20 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $10–$20 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | $10–$20 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Indian Creek (UT)Manti-La Sal National Forest · 1.9 mi
Miller Flat Reservoir CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 5.3 miUpper Joes Valley Dispersed SiteManti-La Sal National Forest · 6.9 mi
Little Bear GroupManti-La Sal National Forest · 7.0 mi
Forks of HuntingtonManti-La Sal National Forest · 7.1 mi
Lower Little Bear CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 7.3 miFrom Price, Utah, travel south on Highway 10 for 20 miles, to Huntington. Turn right onto Highway 31 and travel northwest for 30 miles. Turn south onto Miller Flat Road and travel 11 miles. Turn right onto Potter Canyon Road and continue for less than a mile 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 Mount Pleasant, UT
Typical weather
Typical June night 35°F, day 66°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 35°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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
Potters Pond 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 →