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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 (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
Pranav Deshpande
June 20, 2022
Great Camping site nestled in woods with clean restrooms. Definitely a peaceful, safe and relaxing site.
Robert G
VerifiedApril 30, 2022 • Stayed at: 201, Loop: 1
The water was not turned on. The bathrooms were locked. Mud and water everywhere.
Mike B
VerifiedSeptember 27, 2021 • Stayed at: 213, Loop: 2
Quiet small campground.
Kristie C
September 4, 2021
The area this campground is located is gorgeous! However the sites are very small and very close together. We found the map of the campground somewhat difficult to imagine along with the pictures of the camp layout. We stayed at a site further to the back but from the picture you could not tell there were about 8 sites behind you with only a footbridge access. Had there been more ppl camping this would not have been an enjoyable camping experience. As everyone would have been parking basically in front of your tent. A little more elbow room would be nice. Also only one bathroom building so could be a hike for some. This campground would not be my first choice if I were to go again but definitely gorgeous enough surroundings to make a compelling reason to go again
Andrew V
VerifiedJuly 31, 2021 • Stayed at: 205, Loop: 1
It's a very peaceful place to visit, lots of things to do and not to do. It's quiet, well maintained, firewood service is provided in evening and morning if you suggest it by a local guy. The only downside is restrooms need to be cleaned, everyday. Locals are great and friendly.
Mike B
VerifiedJuly 6, 2021 • Stayed at: 216, Loop: 2
Nice and quiet. No generators. Showers were busy but OK. Nice facility.
Shannon U
VerifiedJune 20, 2021 • Stayed at: 207, Loop: 1
We love camping there, except people going to the outflow fly on that road and people aren’t even camping there come from who knows where to shower so this time we camped we actually had to wait before we could get a shower.
LISA K
VerifiedJune 12, 2021 • Stayed at: 205, Loop: 1
Not sure what happened but some on the spaces looked like it had a flood. Straw was later but very muddy and the grass in other areas were in need of cutting. It’s a great place to tent camping though with clean bathrooms. Will be back just hoping they cut the grass
Phyllis S
June 6, 2021
Cold weather just needed fire wood. We be nice to keep some there.
Ray H
VerifiedMay 27, 2021 • Stayed at: 219, Loop: 2
My tent site had old leaf litter from last year and un-Mowed that I wouldn't dare have a fire because the fire ring & the whole area was full of old dried leaves...
My picnic table was old and had peeling paint terrible, unusable....!
My loop had no working water spigot, the only water was a distance away...
Nevertheless I enjoyed "Peter's Run" the creek behind my site, it made the site appealable to me.... I stayed one night, and was up at dawn the next day packing to leave... I was out of there by 8:30 a.m.
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
