Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Antelope Flat Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.96563, -109.55087
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Antelope Flat Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 10343 (Antelope Flat C G & P A), 150 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 10343 (Antelope Flat C G & P A), 150 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 10343 (Antelope Flat C G & P A): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Antelope Flat Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,068 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Antelope Flat CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Antelope Flat Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater0 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- DDump7 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- PPropane35 mi
- OOutfitter35 mi
- EVEV fast charger35 mi
- MMechanic35 mi
- RxPharmacy36 mi
- +Urgent care46 mi
- AAir-up57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 6 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 35-mi run (and back).
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Antelope Flat Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,068 ft
Ground slope
7% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
40.96563, -109.55087
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around Antelope Flat Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFlaming Gorge Reservoir · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townFlaming Gorge Summer Home Area · ~6.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.1 mi
- FuelCedar Springs Marina Floating Pump · ~6.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.0 mi
- GroceriesFlaming Gorge Market · ~9.0 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~9.0 mi
EV charging — from Antelope Flat Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger35.3 mi straight-line S — RMP Vernal (Vernal, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 15 within 100 · 197 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)36.5 mi — Vernal, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Vernal
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO35.4 mi — TriCounty Health Dep, Vernal
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)35.3 mi — RAINBOW MAN DINOSAUR INN, Vernal, UT · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 347509 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Antelope Flat Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomAntelope Flat · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAntelope Flat · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAntelope Flat · ~0.4 mi W · USFS
- RestroomLucerne Group Campground · ~2.3 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Antelope Flat Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Flaming Gorge Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Antelope Flat Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Antelope Flat Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lucerne Group Campground~2.3 mi · fee
- Lucerne Complex~2.4 mi
- Stateline Campground~2.8 mi
- Stateline Campground~3.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Antelope Flat Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Antelope Flat Campground are set by Ashley National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Antelope Flat Campground
Fee note
$30 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231897
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231897
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
Agency page
recreation.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | Fee 2026-09-18: $30 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/231897/rates (fee_backfill, figure verified on that page).
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Antelope Flat Campground
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Antelope Flat Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Fire rules & restrictions →Picking a spot →All field notes →