Yellowpine
- Right now
- OpenInside the published season, our reading
- A night
- $10–$16Across the site types the agency prices
- Sites
- 17All of them booked ahead
- Season
- May 1Opens May 1. No closing date published.
The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 4 notices
In the agency’s own words
Yellowpine Campground is located next to Rock Creek 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
Rock Creek offers fishing for brown, brook and rainbow trout. Whitewater rafting and kayaking opportunities are available seasonally. Rock Creek Trail, begins nearby and connects with an accessible, paved interpretive nature trail within Yellowpine. Outside the campground, the trail provides access to the High Uintas Wilderness, where hiking, backpacking, horseback riding and backcountry fishing are very popular activities.
Facilities
The campground offers single, double and group sites, all with picnic tables, campfire rings and grills. Accessible flush toilets and drinking water are provided. A dump station is located on-site.
Natural Features
This shaded campground is situated among towering Ponderosa pines at an elevation of 7,200 feet. Aspens and summer wildflowers dot the landscape. Rock Creek flows alongside the campground. Evenings in this area are cool.
Nearby Attractions
Upper Stillwater Reservoir and Lower Stillwater Ponds are nearby, offering swimming, picnicking and fishing for brown and rainbow trout. Upper Stillwater is currently accessible only by hiking in. Numerous hiking trails lead into the High Uinta Wilderness Area from here.
What the agency tells you
This is Yellowpine Campground in Rock Creek Canyon; it is not on the Mirror Lake Highway near Kamas
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
Click here for more information on the Ashley National Forest
Everything else this campground posts · 1
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
- 17 · 2 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
- “…campfire rings and grills. Accessible flush toilets and drinking water are provided. A dump station is…”
- Drinking water
- Yes
- “…and grills. Accessible flush toilets and drinking water are provided. A dump station is located on-site.…”
- Dump station
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Reservoir, Creek
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Wildlife viewing
- Night sky · 295th darkest of 458 in UT
- Bortle 3
- Fall color · reported 12 days ago, 26 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
17 sites · which ones have room · the site map
The sites, ranked
from 17 mapped sitesAll 17 sites
Toilet distances are OpenStreetMap’s, measured for 17 of the 17 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. 17 of the 17 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.
| SING | 001 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 183 ft | 396 ft | under 10 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 002 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 183 ft | 234 ft | 182 ft | $30 |
| SING | 003 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 150 ft | 310 ft | 356 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 004 | group standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 150 ft | 252 ft | 497 ft | $30 |
| SING | 005 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 115 ft | 346 ft | 520 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 006 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 100 ft | 438 ft | 465 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 008 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 409 ft | 368 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 010 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 138 ft | 302 ft | 299 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 011 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 199 ft | 354 ft | 104 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 012 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 103 ft | 470 ft | 210 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 013 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 103 ft | 555 ft | 266 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 014 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 211 ft | 634 ft | 425 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 015 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 147 ft | 698 ft | 414 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 016 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 147 ft | 814 ft | 549 ft | $10–$16 |
| SING | 017 | standard nonelectric | 25 ft | 161 ft | 737 ft | 552 ft | $10–$16 |
| YELL | 007 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 484 ft | 377 ft | $10–$16 |
| YELL | 009 | standard nonelectric | 30 ft | 75 ft | 446 ft | 305 ft | $10–$16 |
Getting there
the map and the coordinate · the agency’s directions
Where it is
Miners GulchAshley National Forest · 0.8 mi
Rock Creek Group (UT)Ashley National Forest · 1.4 miRock Spring Camping AreaAshley National Forest · 3.2 mi
Upper StillwaterAshley National Forest · 3.7 mi
Moon Lake CampgroundAshley National Forest · 6.7 mi
Moon Lake Guard StationAshley National Forest · 7.0 miFrom Highway 40 in Duchesne, Utah, turn north onto Highway 87. Go 15 miles to the Mountain Home turnoff. Continue 2.5 miles toward Mountain Home. Turn left at the Rock Creek Store and proceed about 15 miles to the campground.
The weather
the next four days
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Tabiona, 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
Yellowpine 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 →