U.S. Army Corps of Engineers · PA

Tionesta Rec. Area Campground

ReservableOut of season, no booking; November 18 opens May 18.
Book on recreation.govWe make nothing when you book
Right now
Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
A night
$46From, per site
Sites
122All of them booked ahead
75 ftLongest rig
1,050 ftElevation
27 ftWater · Tionesta Creek
11.3 miNE of Hasson Heights, PA
48%Tree cover

The place

the agency’s own description · what’s there · 13 notices

In the agency’s own words

Half of Forest County, where Tionesta Lake is located, is preserved as public lands. The region is known as one of Pennsylvania's best big game regions and is home to a remarkable variety of wildlife. Campers come to the Tionesta Recreation Area Campground to enjoy the forested area just below the Tionesta Dam. The area is ideal for fishing as well as scenic hiking. Tionesta is a culturally rich region with a long history. The Seneca Indian tribe named this area "where the water separates the land." Nearly a century ago, narrow gauge railways dotted the surrounding countryside, hauling out virgin timber from the hillsides. Keep reading

Recreation

In-season hunting, fishing, boating, hiking and water skiing, are all available from Tionesta. Visitors interested in wildlife viewing are likely to spot white-tailed deer, porcupine, wild turkey, osprey and opossum. Outside the campground entrance is a beach area for swimming and picnicking along Tionesta Creek. No lifeguards are on duty.

Facilities

A boat ramp and marina are near-by for easy access to water sports. Shower houses and restrooms are located throughout the campground for easy access.

Natural Features

Tionesta Lake winds its way through the rugged hills of northwestern Pennsylvania. Surrounding public areas include the Allegheny National Forest, Cooks Forest State Park, Cornplanter and Clear Creek State Forests, the state fish hatchery and state game lands.

Nearby Attractions

Tionesta Creek Road, which winds through the Tionesta Creek valley upstream of the dam, is an excellent scenic drive with spectacular views. The nearby Allegheny National Forest also makes a great day trip.

What the agency tells you

Rule

All campers must have a reservation in order to camp. Reservations need to be made before arrival.

Rule

If you have reserved a campsite and wish to change campsites upon arrival, you must call Recreation.gov at 1-877-444-6777.

Rule

For the Tionesta Lake office call: (814) 755-3512

Everything else this campground posts · 10
Rule

For the Tionesta Recreation Area: (814) 755-3592

Rule

Parking on the grass is prohibited.

Rule

Two vehicles maximum per campsite.

Rule

No alcoholic beverages.

Rule

There is a limit of 1 wheeled camper and 1 tent per campsite, or 2 tents per campsite.

Rule

Sites 69 and 71 are reserved for visitors needing an accessible campsite and require a Golden Access or America the Beautiful Access Pass

Rule

Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.

Rule

Pennsylvania state law requires children under 13 to wear a personal flotation device; all people on boats less than 16 feet in length and all canoes and kayaks must also wear a PFD Alcoholic beverages are prohibited If you have any questions about the rules and regulations for the Tionesta Recreation Area please call the Ranger Station, 814-755-3512

Rule

Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.

Rule

Check out time will be 12 p.m.  Check in time will be 2 p.m.

Read them on the agency’s own page →

Tents and rigs

Sites
122
Hookups
121 electric, 122 water, 121 sewer
Longest rig
75 ft
Paved pads
2 of 122
Accessible sites
2
Pets
Allowed
Campfires
Allowed, barring fire bans
Shade
Every site
Source: Recreation.gov campsite records · Aug 23, 2026

Facilities

Dump station
Yes
recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
Boat ramp
Yes
Stay limit
14 nights
recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Source: Stated in the agency description · Aug 23, 2026

Around the campground

On the water
Lake, Creek, Beach
Boating
Canoeing
Disc Golf
Environmental Education
Fishing
Hiking
Picnicking
Ranger Station
Recreation Programs
Scenic drives
Wilderness access
Wildlife viewing
Night sky · 23rd darkest of 48 in PA
Bortle 4
Fall color · reported 2 days ago, in Forest County
Peak color
Source: Recreation.gov activity records · Aug 23, 2026
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026

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.

Booking windowOut of seasonOut of season, no booking. On November 18, 2026 at 10 AM ET, availability opens through May 18, 2027.recreation.govAdd to calendar (.ics)
Max stay14 nightsthe facility record
A night$46plus $8 to reserve, once per bookingthe agency’s rate schedule
A weekend$100DerivedFriday and Saturday, everything includedours, from the lines above
If plans change$10 to cancel$10 to change a reservationrecreation.gov’s schedule
Runs itU.S. Army Corps of EngineersBooked through recreation.govthe agency’s record
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.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
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’ll write once, when the season that starts Tue, May 18 2027 is open for booking.

Free forever, no booking kickbacks.
Book on recreation.gov

We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.

Every line of the receipt · 13

What you actually pay

The sign priceU.S. Army Corps of Engineers
A night$46
Standard Electric$46
Group area, a night$30
These are next season’s rates, May 18, 2027 to Sep 6, 2027. The campground is between seasons now.
The booking feerecreation.gov
Reservation fee, booked online$8
One fee per reservation, however many nights you book, and it’s non-refundable. $9 if you book by phone, $3 in person.
Pass discounts only apply to the recreation (or use) fee for the facility. Other charges such as electricity or water hookups, reservation or other fees are not eligible for a discount.
What a stay costs
One nightDerived$54
A weekend, Friday and SaturdayDerived$100

Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $46 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.

If your plans changerecreation.gov
Change fee, moving to dates outside your booking$10
Cancellation fee$10
Cancelling the day before, or the day of$10 + your first night
No-show$20 + your first night

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 Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this

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The sites

125 records · which ones have room · the site map

The sites, ranked

from 124 mapped sites
56 ftbetween you and the next site, typically
Least room035 35 ft037 35 ft038 35 ft

All 125 records

125 of 125 records located
RV / electric121Type not stated1Host pad3
SleepsTakes aUp to

The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 121 of the 125 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.

1001standard electric55 ft30 amp92 ft205 ft$46
1002standard electric66 ft30 amp92 ft216 ft$46
1003standard electric56 ft30 amp78 ft336 ft$46
1004standard electric57 ft30 amp66 ft377 ft$46
1005standard electric44 ft30 amp71 ft441 ft$46
1006standard electric66 ft30 amp64 ft457 ft$46
1007standard electric49 ft30 amp64 ft520 ft$46
1008standard electric51 ft30 amp68 ft520 ft$46
1009standard electric45 ft30 amp61 ft80 ft$46
1010standard electric56 ft30 amp58 ft124 ft$46
1011standard electric49 ft30 amp58 ft167 ft$46
1012standard electric48 ft30 amp77 ft248 ft$46
1013standard electric59 ft30 amp67 ft218 ft$46
1014standard electric50 ft30 amp66 ft316 ft$46
1015-Hosthost pad59 ft30 amp71 ft271 ft$46
1016standard electric53 ft30 amp71 ft379 ft$46
1017standard electric48 ft30 amp71 ft322 ft$46
1018standard electric59 ft30 amp73 ft380 ft$46
1019standard electric52 ft30 amp61 ft432 ft$46
1020standard electric66 ft30 amp68 ft530 ft$46
1021standard electric64 ft30 amp72 ft492 ft$46
2054 - Hosthost pad66 ft50 amp64 ft97 ft$46
2055standard electric63 ft50 amp54 ft97 ft$46
2056standard electric62 ft50 amp54 ft93 ft$46
2057standard electric59 ft50 amp65 ft29 ft$46
2058standard electric64 ft50 amp54 ft98 ft$46
2059standard electric56 ft50 amp44 ft35 ft$46
2060standard electric65 ft50 amp54 ft109 ft$46
2061standard electric59 ft50 amp39 ft53 ft$46
2062standard electric63 ft50 amp39 ft70 ft$46
2063standard electric56 ft50 amp45 ft101 ft$46
2064standard electric61 ft50 amp52 ft221 ft$46
2065standard electric59 ft50 amp49 ft269 ft$46
2066standard electric58 ft50 amp61 ft259 ft$46
2067standard electric60 ft50 amp49 ft315 ft$46
2068standard electric60 ft50 amp61 ft233 ft$46
2069standard electric66 ft30 ampyes40 ft223 ft$46
2070standard electric66 ft50 amp50 ft163 ft$46
2071standard electric60 ft30 ampyes40 ft225 ft$46
2072standard electric68 ft50 amp50 ft156 ft$46
2073standard electric57 ft30 amp38 ft200 ft$46
2074standard electric59 ft30 amp38 ft190 ft$46
2075standard electric56 ft50 amp45 ft361 ft$46
2076standard electric63 ft50 amp45 ft378 ft$46
2077standard electric53 ft30 amp64 ft302 ft$46
2078standard electric48 ft50 amp59 ft393 ft$46
2079standard electric59 ft30 amp64 ft308 ft$46
2080standard electric55 ft30 amp58 ft319 ft$46
3022standard electric70 ft30 amp58 ft272 ft$46
3023standard electric53 ft30 amp58 ft236 ft$46
3024standard electric54 ft30 amp58 ft204 ft$46
3025standard electric57 ft30 amp68 ft178 ft$46
3026standard electric45 ft30 amp68 ft218 ft$46
3027standard electric53 ft30 amp39 ft176 ft$46
3028standard electric58 ft30 amp39 ft163 ft$46
3029standard electric51 ft30 amp78 ft216 ft$46
3030standard electric60 ft30 amp52 ft186 ft$46
3031standard electric56 ft30 amp52 ft139 ft$46
3032standard electric56 ft30 amp53 ft108 ft$46
3033standard electric60 ft30 amp49 ft122 ft$46
3034standard electric61 ft30 amp44 ft141 ft$46
3035standard electric55 ft30 amp35 ft68 ft$46
3036standard electric59 ft30 amp44 ft114 ft$46
3037standard electric69 ft30 amp35 ft38 ft$46
3038standard electric61 ft30 amp35 ft27 ft$46
3039standard electric68 ft30 amp35 ft21 ft$46
3040standard electric55 ft30 amp44 ft21 ft$46
3041standard electric62 ft30 amp58 ft89 ft$46
3042standard electric55 ft30 amp42 ft33 ft$46
3043standard electric60 ft30 amp58 ft105 ft$46
3044standard electric75 ft30 amp42 ft34 ft$46
3045standard electric60 ft30 amp42 ft104 ft$46
3046standard electric62 ft30 amp46 ft45 ft$46
3047standard electric58 ft30 amp42 ft103 ft$46
3048standard electric70 ft30 amp42 ft48 ft$46
3049standard electric66 ft30 amp43 ft108 ft$46
3050standard electric56 ft30 amp40 ft49 ft$46
3051standard electric61 ft30 amp52 ft124 ft$46
3052standard electric58 ft30 amp40 ft44 ft$46
3053standard electric60 ft30 amp72 ft28 ft$46
3081standard electric66 ft30 amp52 ft176 ft$46
3082standard electric48 ft50 amp50 ft143 ft$46
3083standard electric46 ft50 amp37 ft128 ft$46
3084standard electric50 ft50 amp37 ft108 ft$46
3085standard electric55 ft50 amp47 ft82 ft$46
3086standard electric48 ft50 amp47 ft73 ft$46
3087standard electric46 ft50 amp47 ft83 ft$46
3125type not stated60 ft50 amp279 ft
4088standard electric41 ft50 amp51 ft19 ft$46
4089standard electric60 ft50 amp51 ft20 ft$46
4090standard electric48 ft50 amp61 ft58 ft$46
4091standard electric55 ft50 amp43 ft216 ft$46
4092standard electric60 ft50 amp53 ft403 ft$46
4093standard electric50 ft50 amp69 ft503 ft$46
4094standard electric54 ft50 amp53 ft434 ft$46
4095standard electric57 ft50 amp63 ft525 ft$46
4096standard electric68 ft50 amp56 ft443 ft$46
4097standard electric60 ft50 amp63 ft528 ft$46
4098standard electric62 ft50 amp54 ft449 ft$46
4099standard electric58 ft50 amp73 ft517 ft$46
4100standard electric48 ft50 amp79 ft482 ft$46
4101standard electric58 ft50 amp57 ft363 ft$46
4102standard electric58 ft50 amp75 ft442 ft$46
4103standard electric57 ft50 amp54 ft396 ft$46
4104standard electric60 ft50 amp65 ft310 ft$46
4105standard electric68 ft50 amp65 ft243 ft$46
4106standard electric58 ft50 amp56 ft261 ft$46
4107standard electric42 ft50 amp49 ft282 ft$46
4108standard electric63 ft50 amp49 ft330 ft$46
4109standard electric48 ft50 amp74 ft383 ft$46
4110-Hosthost pad55 ft50 amp74 ft313 ft$46
4111standard electric59 ft50 amp57 ft306 ft$46
4112standard electric60 ft50 amp71 ft242 ft$46
4113standard electric58 ft50 amp64 ft238 ft$46
4114standard electric56 ft50 amp79 ft157 ft$46
4115standard electric55 ft50 amp63 ft192 ft$46
4116standard electric60 ft50 amp83 ft89 ft$46
4117standard electric57 ft50 amp63 ft178 ft$46
4118standard electric56 ft50 amp76 ft119 ft$46
4119standard electric69 ft50 amp58 ft193 ft$46
4120standard electric50 ft50 amp76 ft127 ft$46
4121standard electric64 ft50 amp58 ft201 ft$46
4122standard electric60 ft50 amp55 ft116 ft$46
4123standard electric57 ft50 amp43 ft188 ft$46
4124standard electric50 ft50 amp55 ft118 ft$46

The agency files 3 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It names them host pads. They’re in the table above, marked for what they are, and none of them is counted as a site.

OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.

25 of 125 listed

Getting there

the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number

The weather

the next four days · the thirty-year normal

Next four days, and the thirty-year normal

Forecast

Today50°Scattered Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny27% rain
Tonight28°Clear then Widespread Frost
Sunday60°Widespread Frost then Sunny
Sunday Night32°Clear then Areas Of Frost

NWS forecast for Tionesta, PA

Typical weather

Typical October night 42°F, day 63°F.

Coldest month of the year: typical February night 19°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.

90°32°10°

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.

Measured at: TIONESTA 2 SE LAKE, PA (USC00368873), 0.5 miles away and 150 ft higher

The land, and who answers for it

who answers for it

Who answers for this land

Glenn Thompson, official portrait

Tionesta Rec. Area Campground is in Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district. Its representative, Glenn Thompson (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →

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How we know

every fact on this page, and where it came from
Right now: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers publishes no season and no closure for this campground, and it takes no bookings we can read. That’s a gap in the record and not a locked gate: the number below is the only way to be sure.
Fall color: More Than Just Parks foliage tracker, joined to this campground by the county the report names · Oct 15, 2026
Reported by: Pennsylvania DCNR, reported peak color · Oct 15, 2026
Cell signal: the Army Corps’s own campground description, read as text by CAMPANAC. None of this is a measurement. It’s what the land manager published about the place, and phones, carriers and weather all disagree with each other; treat it as a warning, not a promise.
Nearest place of any size: Tionesta, PA, 0 mi S. Straight line.