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83 reviews
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.
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October 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.
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July 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.
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July 13, 2024 Stayed at: 224, Loop: 2
Great people and place very reasonable prices thank you for a great time
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August 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.
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October 21, 2024 Stayed at: 209, Loop: 1
Very beautiful well maintained campground.
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November 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
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May 28, 2025 Stayed at: 210, Loop: 1
Excellent campground, nice and quiet, well maintained.
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July 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.
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August 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 ❤️
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August 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.
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Tionesta Lake Po Box 539, Tionesta, PA 16353 United States
Elevation: 324 ft
From Pittsburgh take I-79 North. Merge onto I-80 East exit 116a toward Clarion for 9.8 mi. Take the PA-8 exits 29 toward Barkeyville. Turn Left onto Pa-8/State Route 8 for 16.4 mi. Turn right on US-62 and follow US-62 for 34 mi. Turn right onto 36...
From Pittsburgh take I-79 North. Merge onto I-80 East exit 116a toward Clarion for 9.8 mi. Take the PA-8 exits 29 toward Barkeyville. Turn Left onto Pa-8/State Route 8 for 16.4 mi. Turn right on US-62 and follow US-62 for 34 mi. Turn right onto 36 South in to Tionesta. Turn right at the stop sign and continue 36 south for 2 mi and South Elm Street 1.5 mi into the Outflow Recreation Area.
From Warren travel US-62 South for 30 mi take left onto South Elm Street 1.5 mi 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.
Check in time
2PM
Check out time
12PM
Last updated: October 24, 2026
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Population: 323
Nearby city: Youngstown, OH
Approx. 68 mi away (straight-line distance)
Elevation: 1,083 ft
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