Tinney Flat
- Right now
- Listed not openA database flag with no reason and no date
- A night
- $25.68–$51.36Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2215 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 14 notices
In the agency’s own words
Tinney Flat Campground is located in scenic Santaquin Canyon, just 9 miles from town at an elevation of 7,000 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing and exploring local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Santaquin Creek runs alongside the campground, offering rainbow trout fishing. White Pine Hollow and Calkens Hollow Trails begin within the campground.
Facilities
The campground contains three group sites that can each accommodate up to 50 people. Sites are equipped with picnic and serving tables, campfire circles and grills. Vault toilets and drinking water are provided. A campground host is on-site. Roads and parking spurs are paved.
Natural Features
The campground is situated among a dense grove of cottonwood trees, which provide ample shade and pretty fall color. Tall evergreens dot the landscape. Summer wildflowers and wildlife are abundant. The campground offers many scenic views of the surrounding Wasatch Range. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (385) 273-1100.
Nearby Attractions
The Mount Nebo Wilderness Area is adjacent, brimming with beautiful mountain scenery, pristine waters, abundant wildlife, vibrant summer wildflowers and numerous trail opportunities. The Nebo Loop Scenic Byway stretches 37 miles through high alpine terrain, dense forests and colorful meadows. Devil's Kitchen Geological Area can be found along the loop. It offers a 1/2-mile round-trip trail to interesting red rock hoodoos.
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 campsite and/or imprisonment Remember, a fed bear is a dead bear; your actions can save lives
There is no water available on site. Please bring all of the water you will need for your stay. Please bring your own drinking water
Dogs or Domestic Pets: Owners must: Control the dog by a leash not to exceed six feet (6’) at all times. -Clean up dog feces immediately. -Limit two dogs per campsite. Do not allow dogs to: -Rush, threaten, or attack people/animals. -Obstruct or interfere with people, vehicles, or property. -Cause damage to vegetation, habitat, or harass wildlife.
Everything else this campground posts · 11
If accessing campground from the Nebo Loop, there is one tight curve on the dirt road just above the campground; not recommended for trailers if you're unfamiliar with the road.
Trailers/Campers and RVs: -Come with your RV/trailer water tank filled. Hooking up to spigots or the power in the restrooms, even for medical devices is strictly prohibited -Santaquin Canyon Road is paved but steep, narrow, and not recommended for large RVs and trailers
Campground Etiquette and Rules: Gates open at 7a.m., Gates close at 10p.m. Quiet Hours are 10p.m. to 6a.m. No generators after 10p.m. Camping is allowed only within the designated space provided. Do not go beyond the boundaries of your site Maximum occupancy is 8 people per single site Reserved campsites 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 campsites will be reported to the District Ranger LEO Leaving food/trash in an unoccupied campsite may result in a $5,000 fine This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; please bring garbage bags 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
Advance Reservations/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, as 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, making it difficult to 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
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. Group Site Cancellations within 14 days will forfeit entire use fee No-shows, early departures, or cancellations after the arrival date are not entitled to a refund Failure to arrive at the campsite by 12pm the day after scheduled arrival and does not cancel the reservation, will forfeit site and first-night use fee
For more information 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 information, please call {Salt Lake Ranger District at 801-733-2660} [Logan Ranger District at 435-755-3620] or Utah Recreation at 385-273-1100 - Visit our website gocamputah.com or Facebook facebook.com/letsgocamputah - To reserve a campsite 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 information 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 his or her party
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 22 · 3 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 55 ft
- Paved pads
- 19 of 22
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 21 of 25 campsite records
- Drinking water
- Yes
- DRINKING WATER (PEAK SEASON) on 20 of 25 campsite records, WATER (SEASONAL) on 1 of 25 campsite records
- Camp host
- On site
- recreation.gov lists “Host”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Picnicking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 416th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 4
No reading yet, book on recreation.gov
recreation.gov lists 15 of the 22 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
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We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 17
What you actually pay
“Extra Vehicle - $10 per vehicle, per day (paid on-site cash/check)” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $25.68–$51.36 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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
25 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 15 mapped sitesAll 25 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 17 of the 25 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. 22 of the 25 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.
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 007 | type not stated | $25.68 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 008 | type not stated | $25.68 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | 009 | type not stated | $25.68 | |||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX | unnamed record | 99 ft | yes | Vault Toilets listed | $25.68 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX4 | unnamed record | $25.68 | |||||
| S&P | Double S&P | type not stated | 51 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $25.68 | |||
| S&P | Group S&P | type not stated | 35 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $25.68 | |||
| S&P | Single S&P | type not stated | 51 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $25.68 | |||
| TINNEY FLAT | 001 HOST | host pad | 25 ft | 74 ft | 182 ft | $25.68 | ||
| TINNEY FLAT | 002 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 149 ft | 145 ft | 173 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 003 | standard nonelectric | 51 ft | 162 ft | 191 ft | 69 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 004 | standard nonelectric | 38 ft | 82 ft | 344 ft | 106 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 408 ft | 176 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 006 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 66 ft | 466 ft | 229 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 007 | standard nonelectric | 100 ft | 516 ft | 287 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | ||
| TINNEY FLAT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 451 ft | 228 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | ||
| TINNEY FLAT | 009 | standard nonelectric | 74 ft | 517 ft | 199 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | ||
| TINNEY FLAT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 33 ft | 108 ft | 423 ft | 81 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 011 | standard nonelectric | 36 ft | 122 ft | 443 ft | 65 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 012 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 91 ft | 329 ft | 144 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 013 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 91 ft | 329 ft | 172 ft | $25.68–$51.36 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | 014 | type not stated | 30 ft | 230 ft | 45 ft | $25.68 | ||
| TINNEY FLAT | A | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 149 ft | 48 ft | 165 ft | $117.78 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | B | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 148 ft | 88 ft | 200 ft | $117.78 | |
| TINNEY FLAT | C | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 148 ft | 118 ft | 326 ft | $117.78 |
The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night: 1 it names a host pad and 2 it types MANAGEMENT rather than a campsite. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Maple Lake CampgroundUinta National Forest · 4.3 mi
Maple Bench CampgroundUinta National Forest · 4.7 mi
Payson LakesUinta National Forest · 5.0 mi
Payson Lakes Guard StationUinta National Forest · 5.3 mi
BlackhawkUinta National Forest · 5.3 mi
Bear CanyonUinta National Forest · 7.8 miFrom I-15, take Santaquin exit 244; go east under the freeway and turn south. Follow the road into Santaquin Canyon/Forest Road 014 for 6.5 miles to the campground. The road is paved but steep and narrow.
From Payson, take the Nebo Loop Scenic Byway south approximately 12 miles to the Santaquin Canyon turnoff. Follow the Santaquin Canyon dirt road west approximately 7 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Santaquin, 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
Tinney Flat is in Utah’s 4th congressional district. Its representative, Burgess Owens (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →