Joes Valley Reservoir

Location is 5 star. Well maintained campground, Some sites close to each other but most are fairly well spaced out. We tent-camped at #27 - great edge of the campground location with open views of the reservoir and surrounding mountains. For activities - there's amazing bouldering all over Joe's Valley, Cottonwood Creek running from the dam east to Orangeville is very scenic. We had rainy weather during our stay and so we did not play on the water on this trip. Some kayaks and boats were spotted - they looked like a fun activity. No cell phone service until we got to the outskirts of Orangeville - which was fine for our trip.
Campground is popular with ATV'ers - not noisy in the campground though, which was great. Overall, a good gem of a campground - will definitely plan to go back soon.

Busca mi review completo en @utahmania en Instagram. Me encanto acampar aquí. Teníamos todo lo necesario para acampar y el lugar es precioso. Sin embargo, sería muy bueno que el Estado limpiara un poco las orillas del lago para tener mejor acceso al agua.

Busca mi review completo en @utahmania en Instagram. Me encanto acampar aquí. Teníamos todo lo necesario para acampar y el lugar es precioso. Sin embargo, sería muy bueno que el Estado limpiara un poco las orillas del lago para tener mejor acceso al agua.

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First time here and it was great! Very clean. I liked how much space we had. It was a little ways from the reservoir so it’s necessary to have a vehicle to drive down to the water. No cell service whatsoever, but it was nice to disconnect for a few days.

First time here and it was great! Very clean. I liked how much space we had. It was a little ways from the reservoir so it’s necessary to have a vehicle to drive down to the water. No cell service whatsoever, but it was nice to disconnect for a few days.

Campsite was clean and level. Launching kayaks was a little difficult from the closed boat launching facility near the campsite due to the gate being closed and narrow passageway around it as well as the other guests who had taken over the ramp making it difficult to reach the water's edge. The new boat launching ramp is on the other side of the lake and not terribley convenient to campers. The lake is great for kayaking and wakes were few and far between from one or two ski boats. We did bail out a day early as the flying insects were biting and we are both highly allergic to whatever it is they leave behind that makes itchy sores. At the suggestiion of the campground host, we drove up to Grassy Lake, but instead of "nobody up there" we found a thousand sheep/sheep dung and a large group of young boys (Scouts?) camped there. The road was fairly good most of the way, but narrowed to paint scratching limbs as we reached the little artificial lake (dammed for ag use I assume). This was not worth the drive "good fishing" or not. Overall, it's a very pretty area, but not as nice as Fishlake which is closer to home for us.

Campsite was clean and level. Launching kayaks was a little difficult from the closed boat launching facility near the campsite due to the gate being closed and narrow passageway around it as well as the other guests who had taken over the ramp making it difficult to reach the water's edge. The new boat launching ramp is on the other side of the lake and not terribley convenient to campers. The lake is great for kayaking and wakes were few and far between from one or two ski boats. We did bail out a day early as the flying insects were biting and we are both highly allergic to whatever it is they leave behind that makes itchy sores. At the suggestiion of the campground host, we drove up to Grassy Lake, but instead of "nobody up there" we found a thousand sheep/sheep dung and a large group of young boys (Scouts?) camped there. The road was fairly good most of the way, but narrowed to paint scratching limbs as we reached the little artificial lake (dammed for ag use I assume). This was not worth the drive "good fishing" or not. Overall, it's a very pretty area, but not as nice as Fishlake which is closer to home for us.

very clean bathrooms although they were a little far from our site. Enjoyed the built-in canopy on our table which did kind of make up for the long-ish walk to the bathrooms.