Stillwater (UT)
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $25.96From, per site
- Sites
- 2823 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Stillwater Campground is located 32 miles from Evanston, Wyoming, just off the Mirror Lake Scenic Byway at an elevation of 8,500 feet. The confluence of the Stillwater Fork and Hayden Fork is just outside the campground, providing great fishing opportunities. The byway cuts through the Uinta Mountains, which are known for their abundant recreational opportunities and scenic beauty. Keep reading
Recreation
Fly-fishing for cutthroat and brook trout is a very popular activity on both the Stillwater and Hayden Forks. Numerous hiking, biking, horseback and off-road vehicle riding trails crisscross this beautiful region.
Facilities
The campground contains four group sites, three of which accommodate up to 50 people each; the fourth accommodates up to 25 people. These sites are equipped with large picnic tables, campfire circles and parking areas. Single-family sites are also available with picnic tables and campfire rings. A day-use picnic area is located at the end of the campground road. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Roads and parking spurs are dirt.
Natural Features
The campground is situated along the Stillwater Fork among a thin forest of pine and aspen trees, which provide only limited shade. Summer wildflowers and grasses dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Mirror Lake Scenic Byway parallels the Lower Provo River as it snakes across a portion of the Uinta Mountains, leading to numerous high alpine lakes and streams, countless trails, breathtaking scenic viewpoints and various campgrounds. Fishing, canoeing, hiking, backpacking, horseback riding and biking are popular activities. The High Uintas Wilderness can be accessed from several trails along the byway. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (385) 273-1100.
Charges & Cancellations
Change and Cancellation Policies and Fees Overnight and Day Use Facilities: To ensure fairness, reservation arrival or departure dates may not be changed beyond the booking window until 18 days after booking the reservation. Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservation (including campsites, cabins, lookouts, group facilities, etc.). The $10.00 service fee will be deducted from the refund amount. You can cancel or change reservations through Recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777. Late Cancellations Overnight and Day Use Facilities: Late cancellations are those cancelled between 12:01 a.m. (Eastern) on the day before arrival and check out time on the day after arrival. Individual Campsites: If a customer cancels a reservation the day before or on the day of arrival they will be charged a $10.00 service fee and will also forfeit the first night's use fee (not to exceed the total paid for the original reservation). Cancellations for a single night's reservation will forfeit the entire use fee but no cancellation fee will apply. Cabins / Lookouts: Customers will be charged a $10.00 cancellation fee and forfeit the first night's use fee if a cabin or lookout reservation is cancelled within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Facility: If a customer cancels a group overnight facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date they will be charged the $10.00 service fee and forfeit the first night's use fee. Cancellations for a single night's use will not be assessed a service fee. Group Day Use Area: If a customer cancels a group day use facility reservation within 14 days of the scheduled arrival date, they will forfeit the total day use fee with no service fee charge. No-Shows Camping / Day Use: A camping no-show customer is one who does not arrive at a campground and does not cancel the reservation by check-out time on the day after the scheduled arrival date. Reserved campsites and group overnight facilities will be held until check-out time on the day following your scheduled arrival. Group day-use facilities will be held until check-in time on your scheduled arrival date. If a customer does not arrive at the campground or group facility by check-out time the day after arrival or does not cancel the reservation by the times listed under "Late Cancellations" above, the customer may be assessed a $20.00 service fee and forfeit use fees. Refunds Customers must request refunds no later than 14 days after the scheduled departure date. Recreation.gov will not grant refund requests after 14 days of departure. Reservation Fee: For some facilities, tours or permits an additional reservation fee is charged. For some overnight and day-use facilities, an additional non-refundable reservation fee may apply. The non-refundable reservation fee for tours and tickets is $1.00. The non-refundable reservation fee for permits varies by location. Refunds for Bankcard Purchases: Refunds for bank card payments will be issued as a credit to the original bank card. Refunds for Check or Cash Purchases: Refunds for Recreation.gov payments made by check or money order, and cash payments at selected campgrounds will be issued a check refund. A refund will be processed within 30 days of receipt and approval. Please Note: Refund requests made during or after departure can only be processed when approved by the facility management staff based upon local policy. Refunds for Emergency Closures: In the event of an emergency closure, the Recreation.gov team will attempt to notify users and offer alternate dates (as appropriate). If this is not possible, reservations will be cancelled and all fees paid will be refunded. Reservation fees for free tickets are non-refundable in the event of an emergency closure. Recreation.gov Billing Information Reservation transaction will appear on customer's credit card statements as "Recreation.gov 877-444-6777." Changes to Policies and Procedures Recreation.gov reserves the right, when necessary, to modify reservation policies. These policies were last updated July 2018.
What the agency tells you
This Campground is in Bear Country Always store food and trash securely to avoid attracting wildlife -Failure to comply may result in fines up to $5,000, removal from your site and/or imprisonment Remember, a fed bear is a dead bear; your actions can save lives
This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; bring trash bags
Dogs or Domestic Pets Owners must -Control dog by leash not to exceed six feet (6’) at all times -Clean up dog feces immediately -Limit two dogs per site Do not allow dogs to -Threaten or attack people/animals -Interfere with people, vehicles, or property -Cause damage to vegetation, habitat, or harass wildlife
Everything else this campground posts · 11
Campground Etiquette and Rules Gates open at 7am, close at 10pm Quiet Hours are 10pm to 6am No generators after 10pm Camping is allowed only within the designated space provided. Do not go beyond the boundaries of your site Max occupancy is 8 people per single site Reserved sites will be held until 12pm on the day following your scheduled arrival date Horses/Off-road vehicles are prohibited in the campground Leave No Trace -Put all garbage in dumpsters, when provided, or properly stored in your vehicle or bear box -Remove all personal property and trash when leaving -Unclean sites will be reported to the District Ranger LEO -Leaving food/trash in an unoccupied site may result in a $5,000 fine Cleaning fish, animals, or bathing where drinking water is supplied is strictly prohibited Fireworks or other explosives are prohibited. Discharging of a firearm in the campground is not allowed No fighting or boisterous behavior. Be courteous to your fellow visitor. Keep noise at a reasonable level No amplified music is allowed in USDA Forest Service campgrounds and facilities. People come to the campgrounds for peace and quiet Max Vehicle Length includes tow vehicle
There is a 2-night minimum stay on weekends; 3-night minimum stay on holiday weekends
Trailers/Campers and RVs: Come with water tank filled. Hooking up to spigots or the power in the restrooms, even for medical devices is strictly prohibited
First Come First Served (FF) sites For reservable sites, reservations must be made at least 5 days in advance You must claim a FF site in person on the day you wish to check-in A site listed as FF does not guarantee availability, Recreation.gov does not update FF occupancy The only way to know if an FF site is available is to arrive at the campground on the day you plan to check-in Availability cannot be predicted Many sites are in remote locations, we cannot contact camp hosts about availability Recommended arrival times vary by day. Weekends and holidays typically fill more quickly To claim an FF site, you must be physically present, occupy the site, and pay at that time There is no waiting list for FF sites
Extra Vehicle -$10 per vehicle, per day (paid on-site cash/check) Firewood -$9
If you booked at a discount without a Senior or Access pass, you'll need to pay the difference in cash/check upon arrival. Only Senior or Access passes qualify for discounts and proof of ownership upon arrival is required
Please understand that camping is an outdoor experience; we do not give refunds for weather or natural conditions Cancellations within 24 hours prior to arrival date will forfeit the entire use fee and a $10 cancellation fee No-shows, early departures, or cancellations after the arrival date are not entitled to a refund Failure to arrive at the site by 12pm time the day after scheduled arrival and does not cancel the reservation, will be charged a $20 service fee and forfeit the first-night use fee
For more info on visiting Bear Country visit wildawareutah.org wildlife.utah.gov For campground Rules and Regulations visit gocamputah.com/rules
Click here for more info about the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest For more info, call Evanston/Mtn View Ranger District at 307-789-3194 or Utah Recreation at 385-273-1100 Visit our website gocamputah.com or Facebook facebook.com/letsgocamputah To reserve a site call Recreation.gov reservation line 1-877-444-6777
Don't Move Firewood: Help prevent the spread of tree-killing pests in our national forests by obtaining firewood within 10 miles of your destination and burning it on-site. For more info click here
Please note: Utah Recreation is not responsible for accident or injury to any person or property resulting from the use of this facility and is not responsible for the loss of money or valuables of any kind. The user of this permit assumes full and complete responsibility for the conduct and actions of all members in their party
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 28 · 1 tent-only, 4 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 50 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed at 26 of 28 sites
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…at the end of the campground road. Vault toilets and trash collection are provided. Roads and…”
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Creek
- Backpacking
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Night sky · 273rd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 23 of the 28 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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 · 16
What you actually pay
“Cash, Check, or Scan & Pay (with recreation.gov app) 19 single sites - $29.00 , capacity - 8 people 1 glamping site - $117.00 , capacity - 8 people (deposit required) Group sites A, B, D - $109.00 , capacity - 50 peop…” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own fee record
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $25.96 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.
“Change and Cancellation Policies and Fees - Overnight and Day Use Facilities: To ensure fairness, reservation arrival or departure dates may not be changed beyond the booking window until 18 days after booking the reservation. - Camping / Day Use: A $10.00 service fee will apply if you change or cancel your reservat…” · this campground’s own no-show 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 · 7
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
31 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 22 mapped sitesAll 31 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 27 of the 31 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. 28 of the 31 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.
| GROUP | A | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 268 ft | 268 ftBear River | 256 ft | $85.03–$97.57 | |
| GROUP | B | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 246 ft | 429 ftBear River | 154 ft | $85.03–$97.57 | |
| GROUP | C | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 246 ft | 414 ftBear River | 190 ft | $85.03–$97.57 | |
| GROUP | D | group standard nonelectric | 20 ft | 310 ft | 438 ftBear River | 464 ft | $85.03–$97.57 | |
| S&P | Group Large S&P | type not stated | 20 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||||
| S&P | Group Small, S&P | type not stated | 20 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 30 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||||
| S&P | Yurt S&P | type not stated | 18 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||||
| SING | 001 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 315 ftBear River | 189 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 57 ft | 261 ftBear River | 193 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 003 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 87 ft | 183 ftBear River | 294 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 004 HOST | host pad | 40 ft | 52 ftBear River | 400 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||
| SING | 005 | type not stated | 18 ft | 66 ftBear River | 387 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||
| SING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 41 ft | 71 ft | 62 ftBear River | 364 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 007 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 52 ft | 140 ftBear River | 287 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 008 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 71 ft | 48 ftBear River | 319 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 009 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 52 ft | 152 ftBear River | 236 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 82 ft | 48 ftBear River | 261 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 132 ft | 47 ftBear River | 178 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 012 | tent only nonelectric | 119 ft | 154 ftBear River | 71 ft | $25.96 | ||
| SING | 013 HOST | host pad | 35 ft | 225 ftBear River | 81 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | ||
| SING | 014 | type not stated | 20 ft | yes | 263 ftBear River | 36 ft | $25.96–$104.73 | |
| SING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 119 ft | 73 ftBear River | 184 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 016 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 109 ft | 68 ftBear River | 274 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 28 ft | 103 ft | 220 ftBear River | 308 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 018 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 108 ft | 68 ftBear River | 359 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 019 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 103 ft | 143 ftBear River | 394 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 020 | standard nonelectric | 194 ft | 99 ftBear River | 217 ft | $25.96 | ||
| SING | 021 | day use | 30 ft | 103 ftStillwater Fork | 276 ft | $73.40 | ||
| SING | 022 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 127 ft | 189 ftBear River | 180 ft | $25.96 | |
| SING | 023 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 93 ft | 177 ftBear River | 144 ft | $25.96 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it files as day use and 2 it names a host pad. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
25 of 31 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Hayden Fork CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 1.2 mi
Wolverine ATV Trailhead CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 1.2 mi
Beaver View CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 1.7 miChristmas Meadows CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 1.9 miStillwater CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 2.1 mi
Christmas Meadows CampgroundWasatch National Forest · 2.6 miFrom Evanston, Wyoming, take Highway 150 south for 32 miles. Stillwater Campground is on the east side of the highway. The picnic area is at the end of the campground road.
From Kamas, Utah, take Center Street east. It becomes Highway 150/Mirror Lake Scenic Byway. Travel about 46 miles. Campground is on the east side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Oakley, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 31°F, day 50°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 15°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
Stillwater (UT) 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 →