Twin Creeks Picnic
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 5 notices
In the agency’s own words
Twin Creeks Picnic Area is is a day-use site located next to Fish Lake, Twin Creeks and the Fishlake Scenic Byway at an elevation of 8,800 feet. Visitors enjoy fishing, boating, exploring local trails and viewing spawning salmon from the board walk that meanders along the creek. This takes place mid to late fall. Some fish can usually be found year round. Keep reading
Recreation
Fish Lake is Utah's largest natural mountain lake, covering 2,500 acres. It is famous for its 20-40 pound Mackinaw lake trout. Anglers also enjoy fishing for rainbow trout and splake. Boating, canoeing, swimming and scuba diving are popular activities. The 5-mile Pelican Canyon Trail begins a mile away at Bowery Creek Campground. It leads through meadows and dense forests of spruce, pine and aspen as it climbs to the 11,633-foot Fish Lake Hightop. The popular Lakeshore National Recreation Trail extends around the eastern side of the lake. Hikers are rewarded with stunning lake views after climbing 900 feet in elevation.
Facilities
Twin Creeks contains one accessible group picnic site that can accommodate up to 100 people. A large shelter with lake views is on-site, covering several picnic tables, grills and a campfire ring. An amphitheater is located to the north across the parking area, ampatheator use can be coordinated through the visitor center or by calling Fremont Rivier Ranger District. 435-836-2800 Pavillion rental does not restrict day use from other visitors utalizing the Twin Creeks area or acess to boardwalk and visitor center. Power outlets, lights, flush toilets and drinking water are provided with rental. The large parking area and short trail to the shelter are paved and ADA accesable. Twin Creeks boardwalk is located nearby for fish viewing. Please do not disturb the fish! Trash collection is not provided with rental of pavillion. Please deposit all trash at dumpster sites located at Mackinaw on highway 25 and Doctor Creek dumpstation.
Natural Features
The shelter sits amid scattered pines and aspens on the shore above Fish Lake. Sagebrush and summer wildflowers dot the landscape.
Nearby Attractions
Johnson Valley Reservoir is just north of Fish Lake, offering additional fishing and boating opportunities. Pando Clone is located on the south end of the basin and identified with signs along highway 25. Lakeshore trail a varying 17 mile loop.
What the agency tells you
This is a high elevation facility; use caution when traveling from lower elevations and be prepared for inclement weather.
Off-road vehicle riding not allowed in this day use area.
Click here for more info about the Fishlake National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 2
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Reservation of pavillion and ampatheator will not restrict public acess to day use restrooms, picknic tables, fire pits, board walk, parking etc.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…visitor center. Power outlets, lights, flush toilets and drinking water are provided with rental. The…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…Power outlets, lights, flush toilets and drinking water are provided with rental. The large parking area…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Lake, Creek, Meadow
- Biking
- Boating
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 3.2 km away
- Patchy color
Nothing here to sleep in
The agency files 1 record here and marks it day use, not overnight. On its own record there’s nothing here to spend the night in.
No availability snapshot inside the last 36 hours, so this page draws nothing rather than ageing a reading into fiction.
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What you actually pay
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 →
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rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 1 of the 1 sites listed. A site with no reading is unknown, never far.
| TWIN | 1 | day use | yes | 259 ft | 1,128 ft | $60 |
The agency files 1 more record here that isn’t a site for the night. It files it as day use. 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
Where it is
MackinawFishlake National Forest · 0.5 mi
Bowery Creek CampgroundFishlake National Forest · 1.1 miMallard Bay Overflow Rec SiteFishlake National Forest · 1.6 mi
Doctor CreekFishlake National Forest · 1.9 mi
Bowery CreekFishlake National Forest · 2.3 mi
Frying PanFishlake National Forest · 4.7 miFrom Highway 24 northwest of Loa, Utah, take Highway 25 northeast approximately 9 miles 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 · 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
Twin Creeks Picnic 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 files sites here and marks every one of them day use. The draft asks whether any could open to overnight camping, and if not, why.
- 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 Twin Creeks Picnic has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Celeste Maloy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 2nd district. Twin Creeks Picnic, Fishlake National Forest, Utah carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? 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 Twin Creeks Picnic (Fishlake National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Twin Creeks Picnic has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. Twin Creeks Picnic, Fishlake National Forest, Utah carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? 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 Twin Creeks Picnic (Fishlake National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Twin Creeks Picnic has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. Twin Creeks Picnic, Fishlake National Forest, Utah carries 1 record on the U.S. Forest Service’s own file, every one of them marked day use rather than overnight. I’m asking you to put one question to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: would they consider opening any of these sites to overnight camping, and if not, why not? 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 Twin Creeks Picnic (Fishlake National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com