Tushar Lakeside Campground
Reservable everywhere but bookable nowhere.Ask the agency →
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading; a database flag says not open
- A night
- $12From, per site
- Sites
- 14None on recreation.gov
- Season
- June 1Opens June 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 1 notices
In the agency’s own words
Located within the majestic Tushar Mountain Range, Tushar Lakeside Campground is nestled in a forest of aspen and mixed conifer. This is a popular destination for large youth groups. The lake and small meadow offer ample recreation opportunities to visitors. This campground is managed by Beaver County, Utah. To check site availability and make reservations, visitors should visit Beaver County’s facility rental website at https://secure.rec1.com/UT/beaver-county-ut/catalog. Keep reading
Recreation
Recreation opportunities include fishing, hiking, canoeing, sand volleyball and wildlife viewing.
Facilities
Facilities include three large group sites and several individual sites equipped with tables and fire pits. Water and flush toilets are available inside the campground.
Natural Features
Situated at 8,560 feet, Tushar Lakeside Campground offers visitors a chance to escape the heat of the summer and enjoy various outdoor experiences.
Nearby Attractions
Skyline National Recreation Trail for hiking is a short drive away along with the Piute ATV Trail. There is no ATV access from the campground; riders must trailer to the trailhead.
What the agency tells you
A Fee of $6.00 for extra vehicle will be collected at the facility. Additional camping units are $12.00 over night, payable at the facility. Caution: Bears frequent the area. Please bring garbage bags. This facility is ''Pack In. Pack it out''. ATV's must be trailered out of the campground to the trailhead to ride.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 14
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 56 ft
- Accessible sites
- 1
- Pets
- Allowed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with tables and fire pits. Water and flush toilets are available inside the campground. Natural…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Meadow
- Night sky · 136th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
Nothing on the booking system
recreation.gov lists none of the 14 campsites the agency files here. Whatever these sites are, a reservation isn’t how you get 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.
Every line of the receipt · 14
What you actually pay
“A Fee of $6.00 for extra vehicle will be collected at the facility.” · the U.S. Forest Service’s own agency notice
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $12 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 · 6
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
15 records
All 15 records
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 01 | type not stated | 28 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 02-Host | host pad | 37 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 11 | type not stated | ||
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 13 | type not stated | 43 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 14 | type not stated | 42 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 15 | type not stated | 30 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 16 | type not stated | 33 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 17 | type not stated | 46 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 18 | type not stated | 37 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 19 | type not stated | 42 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 20 | type not stated | 16 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | 21 | type not stated | 56 ft | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | Group Site A | type not stated | yes | |
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | Group Site B | type not stated | ||
| TUSHAR LAKESIDE CAMPGROUND | Group Site C | type not stated |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It names it a host pad. It’s in the table above, marked for what it is, and it isn’t counted as a site.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Kents Lake CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 0.5 miLittle Reservoir CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 2.0 miLittle Reservoir CamproundFishlake National Forest · 2.0 mi
Mahogany Cove CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 2.4 mi
Anderson Meadow Campground (Fishlake NF, UT)Fishlake National Forest · 2.8 mi
LeBaron Campground4.2 miTravel east of Beaver approximately 10 miles on SR 153, and then turn right on to Forest Road 137 for about 5 miles.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Beaver, UT
Typical weather
Typical June night 45°F, day 75°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical June night 45°F. Bring the bag rated for it.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or moreOutside the published season
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 · a letter you can send
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
Tushar Lakeside Campground 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 →
Who can change it · 3
The agency’s own record marks Tushar Lakeside Campground reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its campsites. The draft asks why, and what it would take to fix it.
- The member who votes the moneyCeleste MaloyU.S. Representative · Utah’s 2nd district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn R. CurtisU.S. Senator · Utah
- Your senator, on the same appropriationMike LeeU.S. Senator · Utah
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Tushar Lakeside Campground is reservable and not bookable
Dear Celeste Maloy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 2nd district. Tushar Lakeside Campground, Fishlake National Forest, Utah is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 14 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Tushar Lakeside Campground on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Tushar Lakeside Campground (Fishlake National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Tushar Lakeside Campground is reservable and not bookable
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. Tushar Lakeside Campground, Fishlake National Forest, Utah is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 14 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Tushar Lakeside Campground on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Tushar Lakeside Campground (Fishlake National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Tushar Lakeside Campground is reservable and not bookable
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. Tushar Lakeside Campground, Fishlake National Forest, Utah is a federal campground the U.S. Forest Service records as reservable, and recreation.gov lists none of its 14 campsites, in any month asked. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why isn’t Tushar Lakeside Campground on the booking system, and what would it take to put it there? Road trips and camping on public land are part of how this country knows itself. It’s where a lot of people meet the place they live in for the first time, and it has never been something you had to be well off, or well organised six months in advance, to do. Sent about Tushar Lakeside Campground (Fishlake National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com