White Bridge Campground

This is an older National Forest campground. Positives. (1) The best part of this campground is the ability to stay right on the banks of Panguitch creek. This is a fast flowing creek and you can easily hear rushing water. (2) Close to Panguitch Lake. Excellent fishing. (3) Excellent hosts. Friendly and professional. (4) High enough to stay cool in the summer. (5) Potential base camp for Bryce Canyon NP, Red Canyon, Butch Cassidies boyhood home and more. (6) Burger Barn is a pretty good restaurant for a remote location. Saturday Prime Rib is pricey but good. (7) Free dump station. Negatives. (1) Sites are tighter than most NF campgrounds and in addition they have very little vegetation between sites. Makes for a crowded feel. Not KOA crowded but crowded still. (2) When I was there 1/3 of the flush toilets were inop and replaced by large port-a-potties. (3) No cell service ( Verizon) (4) Pretty remote. @ 9 miles to Panguitch city that has all amenities. Camp store @ 6 miles at Panguitch Lake but it has limited supplies. (5) A well traveled road is next to the campground and you can hear trucks passing.

I think White Bridge May have fallen on a little hard times, since the first review. While it was a welcome place to spend some “cool” summer days, many of the camp site parking pads were crumbling and cracked asphalt, the restrooms were kind of dirty, and there was tall grass very near our fire ring. The dumpsters were full to nearly overflowing. The dumpster nearest our campground disappeared with a garbage truck one day. (???)

On the bright side, though, our campsite was reserved and open upon arrival. There is a creek that runs the length of the campground. If you take a look at the campground map, you can see the creek that runs behind many camp sites. There kids can play in the water, and we even saw someone fishing and catching one.

If you are trailer camping, don’t go to sites 25 through 28. Trailers are not recommended in that area, as you will have trouble turning around at the end of the road.

There is a dump site with water available. The price paid reflects the access pass discount. We had no Verizon cell service. I would not recommend real big rigs. Most sites would be a little too short for them, and many of the sites have low-hanging tree branches.

White Bridge is pretty much right between the town of Panguitch (nice little place) and Panguitch Lake, where there is a General Store, fun fishing and boating activities.

We stayed here Sunday evening, Sept. 15. There were only a handful of campers here and we parked at the far end and felt like we had the place to ourselves. Such a beautiful site set among aspen trees and others with Panguitch Creek flowing right in the "back yard." We saw deer evening and morning beside the creek and bathroom. Flush toilets, amazing! It looked like the small bridge at the entrance was freshly painted a shiny white. So beautiful next to the aspen.