Tom's Best Spring

We went here because we were told people were getting turned around by several rangers who no longer were allowing camping at George’s Gift. Disappointed we headed here on a recommendation by a local. We we beyond pleased with the amount of options for amazing sites. It was hard to choose there were so many! If you are willing to drive back further there are cliff sites with plenty of room and no neighbors in site for many. You could spend days just hiking sound here. I am including photos of our hike around the area. So great!

We were originally set on George's Gift, but when we got there the deep, sandy roads, plus all the "no camping" signs put us off.

We're glad we came here. We were about a mile off the main highway, just passed the binoculars (viewpoint) sign. Lots and lots of sites. Clean, quiet and quite beautiful.

There are public restrooms on the main highway (also trash bins, but no water) we stopped off there daily to dump rubbish. We filled our water containers at the shuttle stop for the canyon. There's also a Subway just before the turnoff for the park. We brought all our food etc with us, as shopping opportunities are sparse and expensive (we had to drive to Panguitch to buy wine 😅) you've been warned. Lovely spot, would definitely come back.

We were here the middle of September and local RV parks and CG were full. We stumbled upon this area off Hyw 12 just south of Panguitch, about 41/2 mi past Red Rock CG. There are some OHV trails but it was quit and peaceful while we were there. It is a beautiful area with trails to hike. There is one vault toilet across the highway that we enter from, otherwise no facilities. The hosts at Red Rock CG said we can use there dump site for $5 fee. Good Verizon coverage.

The road was very well maintained, camping spots were easy to identify, and we had decent Verizon LTE signal.

These spot are in the national forest, but also in the middle of a cow pasture. About 7pm we had around 30 cows walk past our site and they stayed near enough for us to hear them moo all night. That didn’t bother us though.

There was a weird moment around dusk where we heard 3 sudden gunshots. Afterwards we never heard any more so we have no clue what was up, but something to think about.

Even with the random gunshots we would stay here again as it was a great spot.

These sites here are easy to get to, many sites will fit larger rigs, very convenient to Bryce Canyon and Red Canyon.

Pretty and peaceful, until... I was really enjoying a beautiful, quiet spot off a side-road, up on a hill for over a week, until I got some new neighbors a couple of days ago, who have multiple ATVs and are doing practice-driving -- not on the abundant ATV trails all around here -- but up & down the short spur road that we share, and turning around in my "driveway/yard" in front of my rig multiple times per day. I've been inside working all day, so we'll see how it goes on the weekend when I'm outside...

These new neighbors are also firing off guns from their site (which is uphill from mine) at various times of the day.

Incidentally, I was here at a different site, a bit further down the road several weeks ago, and left after just two nights -- because that neighbor (a solo man) was shooting off a variety of different-sounding guns every morning. Then he'd ride his bicycle out onto the very short spur road we were sharing, and turn around just short of my site, returning to his site. I thought that was just too strange to be sleeping right next door to, so I went elsewhere. This is the first time I've felt I had to do that, in two years on the road.

I wonder if the rangers are aware of the target practice being done here?

I'm not giving up on this spot, but just be aware of who your neighbors might be.

Great AT&T here; as usual Verizon is weak.

Would have been solid 5 star review but. We got to Bryce and it had been raining for a week and was raining day we pulled in. The road has a sign by cattle guard that says Tom springs road. Cross cattle guard and sites begin almost immediately. We drove maybe a quarter mile in and backed into a spot on the left. Sank 8 inches into the mud. It was to slick for us to get ourselves out so we had to call tow service and stay the nite in town at rv park. But after much thought and some scouting we returned the next morning and found dryer spot bout half mile down the road on the left. Plenty of room for our 35’ fifth and parking for truck. Other sites around but not close. Very secluded and private. There was traffic from forest service and some ranchers but nothing much. Great nite sky viewing and 10 minutes to Bryce Canyon entrance. Bryce Canyon city wasn’t very accommodating with high prices and limited selection for food, and gas prices were higher up there. Great place to stay and visit Zion as well and avoid the overcrowding they have. Great bike trail that starts out on main road and goes all the way to Bryce Canyon for sure worth the ride. Watch the weather and take food but other wise great stay.