Rock Creek Guard Station
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Welcome to one of the gateways into the High Uintas Wilderness with multiple recreation opportunities. The Rock Creek cabin is located below the Upper Stillwater reservior in the Rock Creek Drainage on the southern slope of the beautiful Uinta Mountains. Visitors enjoy fishing, sightseeing and exploring the popular Stillwater trail. Keep reading
Recreation
The Upper Stillwater Trailhead is 0.6 miles up the road and provides access to the High Uintas Wilderness, where hiking, backpacking, horseback riding, wildlife viewing and backcountry fishing are very popular activities in this scenic region. Upper Stillwater Reservior is 0.8 miles up the road and is 1.3 miles long and has rainbow, brown and brook trout. The reservior is accessible only to watercraft that can be carried in, as the boat ramp is closed to vehicle traffic. Rock Creek offers rainbow and brook trout fishing.
Facilities
The Guard Station cabin can sleep up to 8 overnight guest. The cabin contains 2 bunkbeds, one queen size bed and a sleeper couch, though no linens, bedding or pillows are provided. Level parking is provided for a maximum of three vehicles. The cabin has a flush toilet, running water, bathtub/shower, wood stove, electric heat and electric lights with modern appliances, including stove top and oven, full size refridgerator and a microwave. No tent or RV camping is allowed. Guest are expected to clean cabin before leaving. There is a phone on the front of the cabin that one can make free local calls on.
Natural Features
The cabin is situated below the Upper Stillwater Dam at an elevation of 7,945 feet. The Stillwater Dam is a rolled concrete gravity dam and was designed with a steep stepped spillway. It is an attraction for engineers. A forest of Ponderosa Pine, Lodgepole Pine and Aspen trees provides shade. Summer wildflowers and fall colors are abundant.
Nearby Attractions
Upper Stillwater Trailhead and Upper Stillwater Campground. Rock Creek Ranch, which is under a Special Use Permit with the Ashley National Forest is across the road from the cabin. They offer snacks, soda, beer and fishing supplies. They have spots for tents and RV's as well as assorted sizes of rustic cabins for rent.
What the agency tells you
Call District Office at (435) 738-2482 three days prior to a reserved visit to confirm lock combination.
Off-road vehicles are allowed only on authorized roads, trails and routes as identified on the Ashley National Forest Duchesne Ranger District Travel Map.
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pest in our National Forest by obtaining firewood near your destination and burning it on-site. For more information visit dontmovefirewood.org.
Everything else this campground posts · 2
Pets are allowed in the cabin but are not allowed on furniture. When not in the cabin pets must be on a six foot or less leash at all times when inside a developed site boundary. When your pet is out in the General Forest Area (outside a Developed Site Area) it must be either on a leash or under your direct control. The pets must not be left unattended in the cabin. Pet owners will be held liable for any damages done.
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest, or call (435) 789-1181.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 1 · 1 cabin
- Hookups
- 1 electric
- Longest rig
- 20 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Not allowed
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- ACCESSIBLE FLUSH TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Showers
- Yes, the record doesn’t say what kind
- Shower/Bath Type states a shower on all 1 of this campground's campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- ACCESSIBLE DRINKING WATER on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek
- Backpacking
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Non-Motorized Boating
- Off Highway Vehicle Trails
- Other Recreation Concession Site
- Paddling
- Visitor center
- Water access
- Night sky · 126th 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.
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
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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 →
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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 sites
All 1 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 1 of the 1 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| Rock Creek Guard Station | cabin electric | 20 ft | $100 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Red Springs CampgroundAshley National Forest · 0.0 miSheep Creek Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 1.3 mi
Browne Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 3.5 mi
Browne Lake Group SitesAshley National Forest · 3.6 mi
Summit Springs Guard StationAshley National Forest · 5.6 mi
Carmel CampgroundFlaming Gorge National Recreation Area · 6.1 miFrom Hwy 40 in Duchesne head north on Hwy 87 for 15.7 miles to the Mountain Home turnoff. Turn north on Hwy 134 and continue 2.8 miles toward Mountain Home. Turn left at the Rock Creek store, which is still Hwy 134, and proceed about 22.4 miles to the cabin which is on the left side of the road.
The agency publishes this point for 2 campgrounds; it’s likely a district office, not the campground. Use the agency’s own page for directions.
The weather
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Forecast
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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
Rock Creek Guard Station 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 →