Tasha Equestrian
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $20From, per site
- Sites
- 10All of them booked ahead
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tasha Equestrian Campground is located in central Utah, just 4 miles north of beautiful Fish Lake at an elevation of 9,000 feet. Visitors enjoy horseback riding and fishing for famous Mackinaw lake trout. Keep reading
Recreation
Many miles of horseback riding, hiking, biking and off-road vehicle trails crisscross the area. Johnson Valley Reservoir is just a half-mile from the campground, offering boating, fishing and a boat ramp.
Facilities
Tasha Equestrian offers a group site with a picnic shelter, as well as single-family sites. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and spurs are gravel, but have good access for trailers and trucks. The camp is fully equipped for campers with horses. Corrals, a staging area, hitching racks and trailheads are located within the facility.
Natural Features
Tasha's high mountain setting is beautiful but remote and is prone to rapid weather changes due to its elevation. The site is forested with a mixed stand of aspen, spruce and pines, which provides partial shade. Most sites provide sweeping mountain and valley views.
Nearby Attractions
Fish Lake, Utah's largest natural mountain lake, is less than 10 minutes from the campground. The lake is famous for its 20-40 pound Mackinaw lake trout. Boating, swimming and scuba diving are popular activities on the lake. Boat ramps, rentals, a marina, fuel, groceries, restaurants and fishing and camping supplies can all be found at Fish Lake. The Mytoge Mountain Trail, a 25-mile hiking/biking loop, offers everything from easy cruising to challenging singletrack in the mountains around Fish Lake.
What the agency tells you
Campers must have a horse with them in order to stay at Tasha Campground.
This is a high elevation facility; use caution when traveling from lower elevations and be prepared for inclement weather.
There are no electricity, water or sewer site hookups at the campground.
Everything else this campground posts · 6
This is a 'pack it in-pack it out' facility. No garbage services are available. Please bring your own garbage bags.
Camping is limited to 16 days.
Any vehicles or trailers that can not fit in the designated site must be relocated to another site purchased at full site price. Check area map for available free parking.
Street Legal vehicles are allowed for access and egress only. Non-street legal vehicles are allowed for access and egress only.
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.
Discharging a firearm of any kind is prohibited: this includes BB guns, slingshots, paintball guns etc. Take these activities outside of the campground please.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 10 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 99 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…shelter, as well as single-family sites. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and spurs…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…single-family sites. Flush toilets and drinking water are provided. Roads and spurs are gravel, but have…”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake
- Hiking
- Night sky · 72nd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 13 km away
- Patchy color
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.
Watch for a cancellation
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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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $20 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
10 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 10 mapped sitesAll 10 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 10 of the 10 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. 10 of the 10 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.
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 001 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 43 ft | 1,248 ft | 2,682 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 002 | standard nonelectric | 49 ft | 43 ft | 1,208 ft | 2,642 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 003 | standard nonelectric | 46 ft | 101 ft | 1,227 ft | 2,576 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 004 | standard nonelectric | 43 ft | 101 ft | 1,149 ft | 2,477 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 005 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 90 ft | 1,199 ft | 2,424 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 68 ft | 1,285 ft | 2,495 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 007 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 68 ft | 1,279 ft | 2,437 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 008 | standard nonelectric | 31 ft | 104 ft | 1,436 ft | 2,615 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | 009 | standard nonelectric | 90 ft | 104 ft | 1,364 ft | 2,624 ft | $20 |
| TASHA EQUESTRIAN | G1 | group standard nonelectric | 99 ft | 439 ft | 1,487 ft | 2,216 ft | $75 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Paiute CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 0.6 mi
Frying PanFishlake National Forest · 1.4 mi
Bowery CreekFishlake National Forest · 4.2 mi
Bowery Creek CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 5.0 mi
MackinawFishlake National Forest · 5.6 mi
Mt Terrill Guard StationFishlake National Forest · 6.0 miFrom Highway 24 northwest of Loa, Utah, take Highway 25 for 14 miles northeast to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Fremont, UT
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
Tasha Equestrian is in Utah’s 2nd congressional district. Its representative, Celeste Maloy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →