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About Outflow Recreation Area (PA)
Number of accommodations: 25
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2026 Season availability
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Pet friendly
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Reviews (61)
What Guests Are Saying
Outflow Recreation Area offers a peaceful and well-maintained camping experience, with clean campsites and friendly staff. Many visitors appreciate the scenic beauty and availability for same-day bookings, making it a convenient choice. However, some concerns were raised about noise from generators and the condition of the restrooms, along with mixed experiences regarding campground hosts.
What Guests Are Saying
Outflow Recreation Area offers a peaceful and well-maintained camping experience, with clean campsites and friendly staff. Many visitors appreciate the scenic beauty and availability for same-day bookings, making it a convenient choice. However, some concerns were raised about noise from generators and the condition of the restrooms, along with mixed experiences regarding campground hosts.
Review Summary
Randy Oling
September 17, 2025
We love COE campgrounds because they are always all maintained. Wellllllll, this one is not. Not easily marked to find. Best way to get there is almost into town. If you take first exit after the COE HQ, you go on a tiny bridge and make a very very hard right turn. There are 5 RV sites. Easy pull through, slightly unlevel. Bathrooms are 3 out of 10. 2 bathrooms with showers. One shower did not work, dirty, old and rundown. This is by far the worse COE campgrounds we have been to and will avoid in the future.
Laurel Baker
September 8, 2025
Camp ground is very nice, bathrooms are decently kept. Camp hosts are very rude, and did negatively impact our stay. We extended our stay a night on Recreation.gov , and the female camp host was very confrontational about it, as if we were lying.
Colten S
VerifiedSeptember 4, 2025 • Stayed at: 211, Loop: 1
Lovely little no frills camp. This camp is for peace and quiet
JOSEPH H
VerifiedAugust 27, 2025 • Stayed at: 210, Loop: 1
Always nice here, only issue is the short section of the entrance road that is full of potholes. We’ll be back, great place to stay.
Mike B
VerifiedAugust 25, 2025 • Stayed at: 215, Loop: 2
Love the camp ground because we tent camp. Please, please fix the fans in the family style bathrooms. It's way too humid and hot in the bathrooms because exhaust fans don't work. Hopefully the showers will be fixed soon as only half the showers worked (2 out of 4 worked). Thanks.
Mike B
VerifiedAugust 25, 2025 • Stayed at: 217, Loop: 2
Good experience
Mellainie L
VerifiedAugust 24, 2025 • Stayed at: 211, Loop: 1
I was camped in site 11 Outflow, it was my first time there. I feel the campground host was rude, not a pleasant person at all. Adults were camped up on the hill with their children, if the kids were playing and making some noise he went up and complained. To me they were kids about 5 to 9 years old. They were camping and kids will make noise. They were not extremely loud at all. The campground host to me is not a person that should be a campground. He was not a people person.
Randle P
VerifiedAugust 3, 2025 • Stayed at: 222, Loop: 2
It was great we love it here so much we come every year and it's so beautiful and peaceful our whole family enjoys every minute there. Thank you for having and maintaining this beautiful park ❤️
Brenda W
VerifiedJuly 19, 2025 • Stayed at: 208, Loop: 1
The campground was one of the best. The ranger station was not attended too and we never got to check in. Campers camping there showed us where our camp site was. We were very happy with that site. Would return but need better management/hosts.
JOSEPH H
VerifiedMay 28, 2025 • Stayed at: 210, Loop: 1
Excellent campground, nice and quiet, well maintained.
Location Outflow Recreation Area (PA)
Address:
Tionesta Lake Po Box 539
Tionesta, PA, 16353
United States
From Pittsburgh take I-79 North. Merge onto I-80 East exit 116a toward Clarion for 9.8 miles. Take the PA-8 exits 29 toward Barkeyville. Turn Left onto Pa-8/State Route 8 for 16.4 miles. Turn right on US-62 and follow US-62 for 34 miles. Turn right onto 36 South in to Tionesta. Turn right at the stop sign and continue 36 south for 2.0 miles and South Elm Street 1.5 miles into the Outflow Recreation Area.
From Warren travel US-62 South for 30 miles take left onto South Elm Street 1.5 miles into the Outflow Recreation Area.
Outflow Recreation Area is accessible via I-79 and I-80, with connections to PA-8 and US-62 providing routes into Tionesta.
Latitude & Longitude: 41.4801 / -79.4431
Elevation: 324 feet
Policies & Rules
Arrival & departure
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
12PM
General
- If you are arriving without a campground reservation, you must pay for camping before you park.
- Visit the Tionesta Recreation Area booth, Recreation.gov or call 1-877-444-6777 to determine if campsites are open and to pay for open sites. Preferred method of payments at the Tionesta Recreation Area booth will be credit/debit card or check.
- If you have reserved a campsite and wish to change campsites upon arrival, you must call Recreation.gov at 1-877-444-6777.
- For the Tionesta Lake office call: (814) 755-3512
- For the Tionesta Recreation Area: (814) 755-3592
- Parking on the grass is prohibited.
- Two vehicles maximum per campsite.
- No alcoholic beverages.
- There is a limit of 1 wheeled camper and 1 tent per campsite, or 2 tents per campsite.
- Don't Move Firewood: Don't Move Firewood: Protect your forests from tree-killing pests by buying your firewood locally and burning it on-site. Visit Dontmovefirewood.org for further information.
- Pennsylvania state law requires children under 13 to wear a personal flotation device; all people on boats less than 16 feet in length and all canoes and kayaks must also wear a PFD Alcoholic beverages are prohibited If you have any questions about the rules and regulations for the Tionesta Recreation Area please call the Ranger Station, 814-755-3512
- Camping at one or more campsites at any one water resource project for a period longer than 14 days during any 30-consecutive-day period is prohibited without the written permission of the District Commander.
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Last updated: July 11, 2026
