Twelve Mile Flat
- Right now
- Nobody has saidNo season, no closure, no bookings to read
- A night
- $7–$15Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 1916 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 9 notices
In the agency’s own words
Twelve Mile Flat Campground is located beneath the shadow of Mt. Baldy near the top of the Wasatch Plateau in an open, wildflower-filled meadow surrounded by spruce and pines. Keep reading
Recreation
ATV trails are abundant in the area, providing exciting riding for all skill levels. Skyline Drive passes just above the campground. A short, but steep drive over the ridge leads to Ferron Reservoir for canoeing and rainbow and cutthroat trout fishing.
Facilities
The campground contains two group sites that can accommodate up to 50 people and eight vehicles each. Additional single-family sites are also available. Vault toilets are provided, but no garbage service. Roads and parking spurs are gravel.
Natural Features
The campground sits high on the Wasatch Plateau just below the ridgeline and west of Skyline Drive at an elevation of 10,120 feet. Mature spruce and pine trees dot the open landscape, providing partial shade in the campground. Wildlife and summer wildflowers are plentiful, and autumn leaves put on a spectacular show in the surrounding area.
Nearby Attractions
Skyline Drive runs along the top of the Wasatch Plateau for 60 plus miles, rewarding visitors with beautiful mountain scenery, glacial cirques, spruce-fir forests, aspen forests and numerous lakes and reservoirs.
What the agency tells you
There is no water provided at this site.
This is a high elevation facility; Visitors traveling from lower elevations should use caution
Sites may be available on a first come, first served basis
Everything else this campground posts · 6
No horses allowed in campground
This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; bring garbage bags
OHV riding is not allowed within the campground, except for entering and exiting
For information on the Arapeen OHV Trail System, please click here
Click here for more information on Manti-La Sal National Forest
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.
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 19 · 2 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 35 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 15 of 18 sites
- Campfires
- 11 of 14 sites
- Shade
- 8 of 11 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- VAULT TOILETS on 16 of 29 campsite records
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Meadow
- Biking
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 188th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 36 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:57 UTC
recreation.gov lists 16 of the 19 campsites the agency files here. The rest aren’t on its booking system, so a reservation won’t get you one.
Every one of the next thirty nights is in recreation.gov’s record and not one site is being offered on any of them. That’s a campground closed or not yet released for booking, not a sold-out one.
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.
We make nothing when you book. The link goes straight to the government.
Every line of the receipt · 15
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $7–$15 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
recreation.gov availability, read 15:57 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
30 records · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 6 mapped sitesAll 30 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 16 of the 30 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. 19 of the 30 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.
| Main | 002 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 004 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 311 ft | 2,365 ft | 154 ft | $7–$15 |
| Main | 005 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 006 | standard nonelectric | 20 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 008 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 009 | standard nonelectric | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | |||
| Main | 010 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 011 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 012 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | Vault Toilets listed | $7–$15 | ||
| Main | 014 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 2,094 ftTwelvemile Creek | 356 ft | $7–$15 |
| Main | 015 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 87 ft | 2,010 ftTwelvemile Creek | 384 ft | $7–$15 |
| Main | 016 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 113 ft | 1,955 ftTwelvemile Creek | 365 ft | $7–$15 |
| Main | G13 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 224 ft | 2,174 ftTwelvemile Creek | 139 ft | $40 |
| Main | GP1 | group standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 311 ft | 2,635 ftTwelvemile Creek | 363 ft | $40 |
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX1 | unnamed record | $7–$20 | ||||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX10 | unnamed record | 2,578 ft | 270 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX11 | unnamed record | 2,428 ftTwelvemile Creek | 243 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX12 | unnamed record | 2,300 ftTwelvemile Creek | 145 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX2 | unnamed record | 2,438 ft | 135 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX3 | unnamed record | 2,451 ft | 201 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX5 | unnamed record | 2,235 ft | 88 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX6 | unnamed record | 2,341 ft | 124 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX7 | unnamed record | 2,331 ft | 184 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX8 | unnamed record | 2,466 ft | 231 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| MANAGEMENT SITES | XXX9 | unnamed record | 2,483 ft | 177 ft | $7–$20 | ||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 1 | type not stated | $7–$20 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 2 | type not stated | $7–$20 | ||||
| Scan and Pay | ScanPay 3 | type not stated | $7–$20 |
The agency files 11 more records here that aren’t sites for the night. It types every one of them 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.
25 of 30 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Indian Creek Guard StationManti-La Sal National Forest · 2.0 miFerron Reservoir Campground Ferron NorthManti-La Sal National Forest · 2.2 mi
Ferron ReservoirManti-La Sal National Forest · 2.3 miUpper Six Mile Ponds CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 5.3 mi
Willow LakeManti-La Sal National Forest · 5.8 mi
Twin Lake CampgroundManti-La Sal National Forest · 6.1 miTravel east up Twelve Mile Canyon on Forest Development Road 22 for approximately 20 miles, or travel west up Ferron Canyon on Forest Development Road 22 for 31 miles.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mayfield, 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
Twelve Mile 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 →