Price Canyon Recreation Area
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $15From, per site
- Sites
- 14All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 2 notices
In the agency’s own words
Price Canyon Recreation Area offers visitors a chance to enjoy cooler temperatures and the shade of large ponderosa pine trees during the summer. The recreation area is located on a ridge high above Price Canyon. Keep reading
Recreation
The Bristlecone Ridge trail (3.1 miles starting in the north campground loop) allows visitors to hike through the burned bristlecone forest. Post-fire, these open grasslands fill with wildflowers in the summer months. There are two bouldering areas on the way up to the campground, and day use areas at each campground.
Facilities
The north campground loop access two group sites and the south loop has twelve individual sites. Both loops have vault toilets, and all campsites have picnic tables, fire rings, and flat areas for tents. Many are shaded by ponderosa pines.
Natural Features
Situated at an elevation of 7,500 feet, the recreation area is forested with ponderosa pines and shrubs. The 2021 Bear Fire burned most of the bristlecone pines in the forest, but the ridge still offers scenic views and some portions of the forest are intact.
What the agency tells you
With narrow and steep roads, tight turns, and switchbacks, long vehicle lengths are not recommended. Total vehicle length should generally not exceed 40 feet (truck with a short trailer).
Due to the high elevation, the road up to Price Canyon Recreation Area is inaccessible in winter and early spring and gated. Recreationists are welcome to hike, ski, or snowshoe up from Highway 6.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Accessible sites
- None listed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 1 of 14 campsite records
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:49 UTC
Every site here is reservable, and the record lists none held back for anyone who drives up.
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
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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.
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, $15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:49 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
14 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 14 mapped sitesAll 14 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 14 of the 14 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. 14 of the 14 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Group site 1 | group standard nonelectric | 147 ft | 4,278 ft | 59 ft | $50 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Group site 2 | group standard nonelectric | 147 ft | 4,411 ft | 158 ft | $50 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 1 | standard nonelectric | 141 ft | 4,261 ft | 205 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 10 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 4,328 ft | 70 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 11 | standard nonelectric | 23 ft | 4,328 ft | 67 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 12 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 4,231 ft | 54 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 2 | standard nonelectric | 141 ft | 4,399 ft | 219 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 3 | standard nonelectric | 200 ft | 4,530 ft | 158 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 4 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 4,639 ft | 101 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 5 | standard nonelectric | 79 ft | 4,715 ft | 126 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 6 | standard nonelectric | 92 ft | 4,643 ft | 188 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 7 | standard nonelectric | 132 ft | 4,592 ft | 318 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 8 | standard nonelectric | 86 ft | 4,460 ft | 199 ft | $15 |
| Price Canyon Recreation Area | Site 9 | standard nonelectric | 48 ft | 4,376 ft | 115 ft | $15 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Avintaquin CampgroundAshley National Forest · 11 mi
Fish Creek CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 15 miJackson Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 16 mi
Flat CanyonManti-La Sal National Forest · 20 mi
Gooseberry ReservoirManti-La Sal National Forest · 20 mi
Chute Group CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 20 miPrice Canyon Recreation Area is located 15 miles north of Price and 43 miles south of Spanish Fork via US-6. The turnoff is on the west side of the road at mile 224.4.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Helper, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 38°F, day 63°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 16°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
who answers for it
Who answers for this land
Price Canyon Recreation Area 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 →