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About Outflow Recreation Area (PA)
Number of accommodations: 25
Seasonal information
2026 Season availability
Campground Amenities
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Parking
Pet friendly
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- Parking
Pets and Policies
- Pet friendly
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Reviews (80)
What Guests Are Saying
The Outflow Recreation Area offers a peaceful and quiet camping experience, with friendly hosts and well-maintained campsites. Visitors appreciate the beautiful scenery and spacious tent sites, especially during week-long stays. However, some facilities, particularly the restrooms and showers, need significant improvements, and the access road has potholes that could be better maintained.
What Guests Are Saying
The Outflow Recreation Area offers a peaceful and quiet camping experience, with friendly hosts and well-maintained campsites. Visitors appreciate the beautiful scenery and spacious tent sites, especially during week-long stays. However, some facilities, particularly the restrooms and showers, need significant improvements, and the access road has potholes that could be better maintained.
Review Summary
Denise M
VerifiedOctober 10, 2023 • Stayed at: 204, Loop: 1
No ranger or official on site. Cars in and out of campground in the night. You were searching for 2 boys from Detention center, but I just heard ans saw cars all night. Creepy. I don't know if I want to return there.... summer or fall due to poor staffing.
Also, people put large, even huge trash bags in the campground dumpsters... they are using them without camping. I make puny trash.
Melissa S
VerifiedJuly 12, 2024 • Stayed at: 210, Loop: 1
What a wonderful spot. Full hookup pull-through next to the Allegheny River. Hubby went fishing a few times, we drove to Pittsburgh for 4th of July and then another day to Canton, OH for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Up to Tidioute and Warren for genealogy search. Cute market in town, Walmart about 30 minutes away. Just a good spot for what we were doing.
MICHAEL B
VerifiedJuly 13, 2024 • Stayed at: 224, Loop: 2
Great people and place very reasonable prices thank you for a great time
Robert A
VerifiedAugust 25, 2024 • Stayed at: 216, Loop: 2
Campsites very clean. The camp hosts did a nice job with that, and greeting me on arrival. Quiet hours were respected by campers. The restrooms/showers could use an upgrade.
Caitlin R
VerifiedOctober 21, 2024 • Stayed at: 209, Loop: 1
Very beautiful well maintained campground.
Lou Ann M
VerifiedNovember 8, 2024 • Stayed at: 212, Loop: 1
We really enjoyed the overflow at Tionesta, – especially the site number 12 which was the best. It has the most room and a large pine tree. Great weekend
JOSEPH H
VerifiedMay 28, 2025 • Stayed at: 210, Loop: 1
Excellent campground, nice and quiet, well maintained.
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.
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 ❤️
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.
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.
Elevation: 324 feet
1.5 mi drive to downtown Tionesta (about 5 min)
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: September 10, 2026
