Youghiogheny Recreation Area
This place has sites and nobody may sleep in them.Ask for camping here →
- Right now
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The place
the agency’s own description · what’s there · 3 notices
In the agency’s own words
The Klondike Pavilion Shelter is located on the Youghiogheny River Lake in the heart of the Laurel Highlands. The lake spans the Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. Clean waters, forested mountains and steep-sided valleys provide an unsurpassed setting for recreational opportunities. Keep reading
Recreation
Camping, fishing, boating, water skiing, hiking, biking, picnicking and sightseeing are the area's most popular activities. Boaters consider Youghiogheny River Lake, with its 16-mile length and channels up to one-half mile wide, the best powerboating and water-skiing lake in southwestern Pennsylvania. Youghiogheny Lake's outflow area is renowned for its excellent trout fishing and is stocked from April to September each year. A fishing pier is located in the campground.
Facilities
The Klondike Pavilion provides parking, grills, tables, electric, waste receptacles, and a buffet-style counter top. Another bonus to this pavilion is that it has a short walk to the two available restrooms. Along with the ammenties, it offers a handicap accessible path from the parking lot. The pavilion offers a short path to the beach area and boat launch while also providing a beautfiul view of the lake where you can see recreators and wildlife.
Natural Features
The country surrounding the lake is made up of narrow valleys and high rounded hills with steep slopes. Much of the land is covered with northern hardwoods including Beech, Sugar Maple, White Ash, Yellow Poplar and Basswood. A variety of wildlife makes its home around Youghiogheny River Lake, including deer, bear, turkey, grouse, rabbit and squirrel.
Nearby Attractions
Some of Pennsylvania and Maryland's finest state parks surround Youghiogheny Lake. Ohiopyle State Park is known for some of the best whitewater in the East and is often the location of national kayaking competitions. Cyclists enjoy the many miles of bike trails in the area. For the history buff, the area boasts many historical sites and parks. For sheer natural beauty, Youghiogheny Lake can't be beat. Contact Info For facility specific information, please call (814) 395-3242.
What the agency tells you
All resevations are made through recreation.gov or by calling 1-877-444-6777.
Alcohol is prohibitted.
The phone number for the Resource Managers Office is 814-395-3242.
Facilities
- Toilets
- Pit Toilets
- PIT TOILETS on 1 of 1 campsite records
- Boat ramp
- Yes
Around the campground
- On the water
- Lake, River, Beach
- Accessible Swimming
- Biking
- Birding
- Canoeing
- Fishing
- Hiking
- Kayaking
- Motor Boat
- Paddle Boating
- Paddling
- Picnicking
- Ranger Station
- Swimming
- Water access
- Fall color · reported yesterday, in Somerset County
- Peak 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.
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 · 12
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 →
How we know this receipt · 5
rules read Sep 9, 2026 · rates Sep 10, 2026 · How we know all this
The sites
1 records · the site map
All 1 records
| Spillway | Klondike Pavilion | day use | 164 ftCasselman River | $65 |
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 · the phone number
Where it is
Outflow Camping0.6 mi
Somerfield North Recreation Area3.1 mi
Mill Run Recreation Area5.7 mi
Robert W Craig29 mi
Evitts Creek Hiker-Biker CampsiteChesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park · 36 mi
Irons Mountain Hiker-Biker CampsiteChesapeake and Ohio Canal National Historical Park · 37 miWhen arriving at 497 Flanigan Rd Conflunce Pa, make a left. This will take you across the dam and you will have full view of the lake. Continue straight into the boaters parking lot. Take the third right and the pavilion can be seen from the lot.
The weather
the next four days · the thirty-year normal
Next four days, and the thirty-year normal
Forecast
NWS forecast for Confluence, PA
Typical weather
Typical October night 40°F, day 64°F.
Coldest month of the year: typical January night 19°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
who answers for it · a letter you can send
Who answers for this land
Youghiogheny Recreation Area is in Pennsylvania’s 14th congressional district. Its representative, Guy Reschenthaler (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 moneyGuy ReschenthalerU.S. Representative · Pennsylvania’s 14th district
- Your senator, on the same appropriationDavid McCormickU.S. Senator · Pennsylvania
- Your senator, on the same appropriationJohn FettermanU.S. Senator · Pennsylvania
Read the draft, or change the wording
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Youghiogheny Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear Guy Reschenthaler, I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania’s 14th district. Youghiogheny Recreation Area, Pennsylvania carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’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. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Youghiogheny Recreation Area (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Youghiogheny Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear David McCormick, I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania. Youghiogheny Recreation Area, Pennsylvania carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’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. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Youghiogheny Recreation Area (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com
Asks them to put the same question to the agency in writing.
Subject Youghiogheny Recreation Area has sites, and nobody may sleep in them
Dear John Fetterman, I’m a constituent in Pennsylvania. Youghiogheny Recreation Area, Pennsylvania carries 1 record on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’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. Army Corps of Engineers 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 Youghiogheny Recreation Area (Pennsylvania) via campanac.com