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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.
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.
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.
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.
From 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.
We drove up there to see the water come over the spill way. It was breathtaking. To see and hear the roar of the water was incredible. The drive is easy and a little bit rough in places but it was all paved.
Awesome. If you get the chance to see the spillage of the reservoir being over 100% I highly recommend. It doesn’t happen much as it’s a rare event when Utah gets a high amount of snow fall.
