Twin Lake Campground
- Right now
- Closed for the seasonOut of the season the agency publishes
- A night
- $10From, per site
- Sites
- 43 on recreation.gov
- Season
- May 1 – September 30Open May 1 through September 30
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 7 notices
In the agency’s own words
Twin Lake Campground rests in a juniper tree belt between the lower river bottom of Twelve Mile Canyon and the upper sub-alpine top of Skyline Drive. Visitors enjoy exploring a wealth of off-road vehicle trails. Keep reading
Recreation
With an off-road vehicle learner loop in the campground and a central location between trails connecting to the Arapeen OHV Trail system and Skyline Drive, Twin Lake is the perfect staging area for exciting riding at any skill level.
Facilities
The campground contains one group site available for online reservations. This site accommodates up to 40 people and six vehicles. An additional 21 single-family sites are available, two of which, Sites 11 and 13, are open for online reservations. Campfire rings are provided in each campsite and two vault toilets are regularly maintained and accessible within the campground. There is no trash collection so be prepared to pack out what you bring in.
Natural Features
The campground is located 7 miles up Twelve Mile Canyon from the town of Mayfield Utah, nestled among Flagstaff Limestone bluffs. At 7,000 feet above sea level, Twin Lake Campground allows early access in the spring and warmer temperatures in the fall.
Nearby Attractions
The Arapeen OHV Trail System offers extensive riding. Access to Skyline Drive rewards visitors with picturesque scenery and outdoor excitement.
What the agency tells you
No water is available at the campground
Non-reserved sites are available on a first-come, first-served basis
This is a 'pack it in, pack it out' facility; bring garbage bags
Everything else this campground posts · 4
Off-road vehicle riding is not allowed in the campground, except for entering and exiting or using the learner loop
For information on the Arapeen OHV Trail System, click here
Click here to learn more about Manti-LaSal 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
- 4 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 40 ft
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Pets
- Allowed at 3 of 4 sites
- Campfires
- 3 of 4 sites
- Shade
- 2 of 3 sites
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…are provided in each campsite and two vault toilets are regularly maintained and accessible within the…”
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River
- Night sky · 230th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 14 days ago, 40 km away
- Peak color
Nothing on the booking system for the next 30 nightsread 15:03 UTC
recreation.gov lists 3 of the 4 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 · 13
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rate for this season, $10 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 15:03 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Oct 1, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
4 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 3 mapped sitesAll 4 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 3 of the 4 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. 4 of the 4 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Twelve Mile FlatManti-La Sal National Forest · 6.1 mi
Indian Creek Guard StationManti-La Sal National Forest · 7.8 miFerron Reservoir Campground Ferron NorthManti-La Sal National Forest · 8.0 mi
Ferron ReservoirManti-La Sal National Forest · 8.0 mi
Manti CommunityManti-La Sal National Forest · 9.7 miTravel east out of Mayfield, UT on "Canyon Road" to the Forest Service boundary of Twelve Mile Canyon. Stay on Forest Development Road 22, approximately 7.5 miles from Mayfield, Utah.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Mayfield, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 37°F, day 61°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 37°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
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 Lake Campground 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 →