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Stuart Lake Recreation Complex, Camping/Day Use

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The place

There is an assortment of recreational opportunities within the Stuart Lake Recreation Complex. Situated on a beautiful 5-acre lake surrounded by pine-hardwood forest, this area provides outdoor recreational opportunities for camping, picnicking, canoeing (non-motorized boating), fishing, hiking, bicycling, and nature study. The day use facility includes flush toilets, paved parking, a fishing pier, shore fishing, a swimming beach, picnic tables and barbeque pits. The group use facility is located up the hill from the day use area and the swimming beach. Keep reading

It is equipped with a covered picnic shelter, a large party barbeque pit, trash bins, restrooms, and access to day use facilities including the lake. Group use area facilites include: restrooms, gravel parking, extra large barbeque pit, trash bins, large covered picnic shelter, and access to the day use facilities and lake. The Stuart Nature Trail and the Glenn Emery hiking and biking trail may both be accessed from this recreation area. The Stuart Lake Campground is a primitive campground with 8 sites that were renovated in 2009. General facilities also include drinking water and restrooms. Trash disposal available.

SRC · USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · 2026-08-24

Booking

183 daysBooking window before arrival

Recreation.gov default: most campsites can be booked six months prior to arrival date. Most campgrounds go on sale at 7am PT / 8am MT / 10am ET, but not always; check the facility Seasons and Fees tab. Some locations also offer shorter supplemental booking windows.

Fees

Stuart Lake Recreation Area is a designated fee area. Day Use$5/vehicle/day. Camping: $15/single site/night and $20/double unit/night. Group Use Area: $10 non-refundable fee
$25 for 1-30 people
$40 for 31-50 people
$65 for 51-125 people. No trail use fees for hikers.
SRC · USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse · 2026-08-24

Your representative

This campground sits in LA-04. This member’s public-lands record →

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