White Bridge
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- Right now
- Taking bookingsSites offered on 15 of the next 15 nights; a database flag says not open read 15:51 UTC
- A night
- $30–$60Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 2928 on recreation.gov
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 10 notices
In the agency’s own words
White Bridge Campground is located just 12 miles southwest of Panguitch, Utah and 55 miles northeast of Cedar City. Visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing on nearby Panguitch Lake and exploring local trails. Keep reading
Recreation
Campers enjoy fishing for rainbow trout in Panguitch Creek. Hiking and biking are popular activities around the campground. The Panguitch Lake ATV Trail System offers 100+ miles of trails and can be accessed nearby.
Facilities
White Bridge offers several family campsites. The sites along the creek have natural shade, while the sites across the loop road are more open and equipped with picnic shelters for shade. Flush and vault toilets are provided, as is drinking water and a dump station. OHV/ATV's including street legal are allowed in the campground for ingress and egress only (to and from your campsite to the road). Joy riding in the campground is not allowed.
Natural Features
The campground is situated high on the Colorado Plateau at an elevation of 7,900 feet. Panguitch Creek runs alongside the campground. Cottonwoods line the creek and aspens, pinion and juniper dot the sagebrush-covered landscape.
Nearby Attractions
White Bridge is just 6 miles from Panguitch Lake. Some of the state's largest rainbow trout are fished from the lake each year, and aptly so; "Panguitch" comes from the Paiute word meaning "big fish." Anglers will also find brook, cutthroat and brown trout. Canoeing is a popular activity on this small body of water. Boat ramps are located on the south shore and at Wildlife Point. Cedar Breaks National Monument, with hiking trails and guided tours, is 16 miles from White Bridge. Just outside Cedar Breaks is the Ashdown Gorge Wilderness Area, where hikers will find 10 miles of trails and the Twisted Forest, a stand of ancient bristlecone pine. Bryce Canyon National Park is just over an hour away, with breathtaking scenery and excellent hiking opportunities.
What the agency tells you
CHECK IN: Begins at 2 PM. CHECK OUT: By 11 AM.
A daily fee will be charged and collected at the campground for extra vehicles. Come prepared to pay onsite.
OHV/ATV's including street legal are allowed in the campground for ingress and egress only ( to and from your site to the road). Joy riding in the campground is not allowed.
Everything else this campground posts · 7
For information about ATV policies, call the Cedar City Ranger District at 435-865-3200
Check with Utah Dept. of Natural Resources for fishing, lake conditions, and vessel size allowed.
Food services, lodging, and boat rentals available at commercial facilities around Panguitch Lake
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.
Any accepted senior passes must be entered for the discount at the time of booking for single sites only.
Customer Service Please Contact 801-226-3564 or Help.Dixie.CedarCity@AmericanLL.com
Click here to learn more about the Dixie National Forest
Tents and rigs
- Sites
- 29
- Hookups
- None
- Longest rig
- 60 ft
- Paved pads
- 11 of 29
- Accessible sites
- None listed
- Campfires
- Allowed, barring fire bans
- Shade
- Every site
Facilities
- Toilets
- Vault Toilets
- “…picnic shelters for shade. Flush and vault toilets are provided, as is drinking water and a dump…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and vault toilets are provided, as is drinking water and a dump station. OHV/ATV's including street…”
- Dump station
- Yes
- recreation.gov lists “Dump Station”
- Boat ramp
- Yes
- Stay limit
- 14 nights
- recreation.gov facility rule maxStay
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Hunting
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 152nd darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 2
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 24 km away
- Peak color
Full this Saturdayread 15:51 UTC
How full the weekend is nationally.
2 campgrounds have sites open within 30 miles, read 16:31 UTC. See them
OpenBooked
Every one of the 5 sites on offer is taken this Friday and Saturday. 15 are free on Tue, Oct 20. read 15:51 UTC Why the weekend fills and the week doesn’t
Watch for a cancellation
Watch this campground
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 rates for this season, $30–$60 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
Open within 30 miles this weekend · 2
Sites the agency is offering this Friday and Saturday that nobody has taken, nearest first. read 16:31 UTC
- Sunset Campground (UT)Bryce Canyon National Park · 24 mi · 1 of 92 site-nights open
- Pyramid Ridge CampgroundCedar City Field Office · 30 mi · 19 of 52 site-nights open
recreation.gov availability, read 15:51 UTC · rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
29 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 28 mapped sitesAll 29 sites
The price is derived by CAMPANAC, not published per site: the per-night rate this campground publishes for each site’s own site type. 28 of the 29 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.
| WHIT | 001 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 145 ft | 35 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 002 | standard nonelectric | 29 ft | 114 ft | 23 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 003 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 60 ft | 32 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 004 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 44 ft | 11 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 005 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 44 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 006 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 52 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 007 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 52 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 008 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 62 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 009 | standard nonelectric | 42 ft | 71 ft | 109 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 010 | standard nonelectric | 45 ft | 66 ft | under 10 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 011 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 71 ft | 141 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 012 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 59 ft | 94 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 013 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 66 ft | 18 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 014 | standard nonelectric | 35 ft | 59 ft | 94 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 015 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 55 ft | 27 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 016 | standard nonelectric | 55 ft | 55 ft | 11 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 017 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 81 ft | 156 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 018 | standard nonelectric | 37 ft | 91 ft | 83 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 019 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 50 ft | 19 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 020 | standard nonelectric | 47 ft | 49 ft | 33 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 021 | standard nonelectric | 34 ft | 49 ft | 38 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 022 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 97 ft | 149 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 023 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 78 ft | 141 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 024 | standard nonelectric | 39 ft | 78 ft | 64 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 025 | standard nonelectric | 50 ft | 84 ft | 42 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 026 | standard nonelectric | 52 ft | 82 ft | 70 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 027 | standard nonelectric | 40 ft | 84 ft | 41 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 028 | standard nonelectric | 60 ft | 157 ft | 55 ft | $30–$60 |
| WHIT | 029 | type not stated | 30 ft | under 10 ft |
OpenStreetMap has no toilet mapped within 1 km of this campground, so no site here carries a toilet distance. That’s a gap in the map, not a finding about the campground.
25 of 29 listed
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions · the phone number
Where it is
Panguitch LakeDixie National Forest · 4.9 miYankee Meadow CampgroundDixie National Forest · 9.6 miRed Canyon CampgroundDixie National Forest · 16 mi
Point Supreme CampgroundCedar Breaks National Monument · 16 mi
Duck CreekDixie National Forest · 17 miDuck Creek CampgroundDixie National Forest · 17 miFrom Panguitch, Utah, take Highway 143 southwest for 12 miles. Campground is on the north side of the highway.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Panguitch, UT
Typical weather
Typical October night 34°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical December night 18°F, below freezing. Bring a bag rated colder than that, and expect ice in the water bottle.
Daily high and lowDays with 0.10 in or more
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
White Bridge 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
Two offices, two different asks. The draft to the agency asks it to set aside a published share of the sites here for whoever drives up. The draft to Congress asks why that share is zero and presses for a published minimum at the campgrounds it funds.
- 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
For the camper who turned up, or tried to book, and couldn’t get in. Every draft is written from this campground’s own record (its agency, its unit, its site count and its own weekend) and the buttons above copy whichever wording is selected here.
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at White Bridge, Dixie National Forest, Utah
Dear Celeste Maloy, I’m a constituent in Utah’s 2nd district. I tried to camp at White Bridge, Dixie National Forest, Utah, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 28 of the 29 campsites the agency files at White Bridge, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 5 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. White Bridge keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run White Bridge. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about White Bridge (Dixie National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at White Bridge, Dixie National Forest, Utah
Dear John R. Curtis, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at White Bridge, Dixie National Forest, Utah, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 28 of the 29 campsites the agency files at White Bridge, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 5 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. White Bridge keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run White Bridge. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about White Bridge (Dixie National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the question to the agency in writing, and to press for a published minimum share of walk-up sites across the campgrounds they fund.
Subject Walk-up camping at White Bridge, Dixie National Forest, Utah
Dear Mike Lee, I’m a constituent in Utah. I tried to camp at White Bridge, Dixie National Forest, Utah, and couldn’t. recreation.gov lists 28 of the 29 campsites the agency files at White Bridge, and every one of them is booked ahead, and the agency's own record lists none held back for somebody who drives up. On Saturday, October 17, all 5 sites recreation.gov was offering there were already booked. 1,623 of the 7,639 federal campgrounds in this country still keep at least some sites for whoever arrives first. White Bridge keeps none, and that’s a choice somebody made rather than a rule. I’m not asking you to run White Bridge. I’m asking you to put it to the U.S. Forest Service in writing: why is the share of first-come sites there zero, and what would a published minimum share cost? Please press for that minimum at the federal campgrounds you fund. The people who open these campgrounds, collect the fees and keep the water running are seasonal positions. At GS-5, base pay plus the government's own 36.25% benefit factor, one costs about $47,414 a year. One percent of the $13.3 billion the USS Gerald R. Ford cost to procure would pay for about 2,800 of them for a year. Both figures are the government's own (a Congressional Research Service report and an OPM pay table), and I’m glad to send them. Sent about White Bridge (Dixie National Forest, Utah) via campanac.com