Upper Stillwater
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 11All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
Upper Stillwater Campground is located below its namesake reservoir in the Rock Creek Drainage on the southern slope of the beautiful Uinta Mountains. Visitors enjoy fishing and exploring the popular Rock Creek Trail. Keep reading
Recreation
The Rock Creek Trail begins just outside the campground and provides access to the High Uintas Wilderness, where hiking, backpacking, horseback riding and backcountry fishing are very popular activities in this scenic region. Rock Creek offers rainbow and brook trout fishing. To access the reservoir, visitors must hike in; The road to the reservoir is not currently open to vehicle traffic.
Facilities
The campground contains one group site that can accommodate up to 32 people. It is equipped with picnic tables, grills, a campfire ring, three tent pads and RV parking. Single and double-family sites are available as well, each with a picnic table and campfire ring. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. A campground host is on-site. A dump station is located 3 miles away at Yellowpine Campground.
Natural Features
The campground is situated just below the Upper Stillwater Dam at an elevation of 8,000 feet. The concrete dam is visible from the campground. A forest of Ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine and aspen trees provides only sparse shade. Summer wildflowers are abundant.
What the agency tells you
Single sites are allowed 8 people, 1 vehicle, 1 RV/trailer and 1 tent; Double sites are allowed 16 people, 2 vehicles, 2 RV/trailers and 2 tents; Group sites are allowed 32 people, 4 vehicles, 4 RV/trailers and 3 tents
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Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 11 · 1 group
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 30 ft
- Paved pads
- All
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Flush Toilets
- “…with a picnic table and campfire ring. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided.…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…table and campfire ring. Flush toilets, drinking water and trash collection are provided. A campground…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Horseback riding
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 286th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 13 days ago, 30 km away
- Peak color
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.
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 · 14
What you actually pay
Derived by CAMPANAC: the agency’s published rates for this season, $10–$16 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
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
11 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 11 mapped sitesAll 11 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 11 of the 11 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. 11 of the 11 sites listed carry one, and a site whose type has no published rate sits out of the price rather than being called free.
| UPPER STILLWATER | 01 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 127 ft | 446 ftRock Creek | 198 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 02 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 127 ft | 355 ftRock Creek | 111 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 03 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 125 ft | 568 ftRock Creek | 153 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 04 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 108 ft | 585 ftRock Creek | 177 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 05 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 108 ft | 680 ftRock Creek | 261 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 06 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 99 ft | 817 ftRock Creek | 411 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 07 | group rv area nonelectric | 30 ft | 99 ft | 839 ftRock Creek | 420 ft | $30 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 08 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 148 ft | 964 ftRock Creek | 559 ft | $10–$16 |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 12 | standard nonelectric | 168 ft | 1,076 ftRock Creek | 94 ft | $10–$16 | |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 13 | standard nonelectric | 91 ft | 1,017 ftRock Creek | 142 ft | $10–$16 | |
| UPPER STILLWATER | 14 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 91 ft | 1,069 ftRock Creek | 179 ft | $10–$16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
YellowpineAshley National Forest · 3.7 mi
Miners GulchAshley National Forest · 4.5 mi
Rock Creek Group (UT)Ashley National Forest · 5.1 miAspen CampgroundAshley National Forest · 8.8 mi
Aspen (UT)Ashley National Forest · 8.8 miFrom Duchesne, Utah: Take Highway 87 approximately 20 miles north to Mountain Home. Turn left at the Rock Creek Store and travel 18 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tabiona, UT
Typical weather
Typical May night 33°F, day 53°F.
Coldest night of the open season: typical May night 33°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
Upper Stillwater is in Utah’s 3rd congressional district. Its representative, Mike Kennedy (R), votes on the laws that decide what happens to this land. Public-lands grade so far: F. See every public-lands vote →