This Forest Service campground is at the end of 30 miles of two lane blacktop running north from Duchesne, Utah. It's right at the edge of the High Uintas Wilderness.
Facilities are good for a remote Forest Service campground: the roads and sites are paved, the sites are well maintained, and there are nice restrooms with flush toilets. Drinking water is available but there are no showers or hookups. Some of the sites are reservable through the federal system (despite what the attached link says) but more than half of the sites are available first come first served. There is a store/cabin operation nearby...sometimes...the ranger told us it was closed "this year". $10 a night is the fee.
It's in a beautiful mountainous setting, cool at night even in August. The only jarring note if you're looking for a natural setting is the immense concrete wall of Upper Stillwater dam just up the creek from the campground. But, it impounds a beautiful lake and if you get on the downward side of the campground you don't see the dam.
Even on a summer Friday night the campground was only about a third full. I liked it and I'll go back if I'm in the area.
http://www.publiclands.org/explore/s...ate=UT&id=1087
Upper Stillwater, Duchesne, Utah
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