Agency-listedBLM · dispersedUnpriced · confirm
Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 37.42564, -113.08897
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,881 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Beartrap Canyon WildernessNIFC · 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 Beartrap Canyon Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery3 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- WWater12 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- DDump17 mi
- AAir-up18 mi
- PPropane54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
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 — Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
6,881 ft
Ground slope
181.8% · steep
Nearest highway
~7.9 mi · Interstate 15
State
UT
Coordinates
37.42564, -113.08897
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Beartrap Canyon Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBear Trap Canyon (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townKanarraville · ~9.3 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~7.9 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~17.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~16.6 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~15.8 mi
- PharmacyWalmart Pharmacy · ~15.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicCedar City Hospital · ~19.0 mi
- HardwareIFA Country Stores · ~16.3 mi
EV charging — from Beartrap Canyon Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.1 mi straight-line N — Cedar City, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a rest stop) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 16 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach6 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 30 within 100 · 106 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS15.8 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO15.8 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.7 mi — Kolob Canyons Visitor Center, New Harmony, UT (at a national park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-12-12 · hours: Visitor center hours; pay lot
- 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 195701 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Beartrap Canyon Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomLava Point Campground · ~4.2 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomWCTH Wildcat Canyon Vault Toilet (Outback) · ~6.0 mi S · NPS
- RestroomHOVA Hop Valley Vault Toilet · ~6.1 mi S · NPS
- RestroomKOCA B155 Kolob Evaporative Vault Toilet (Timber Creek) · ~6.2 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — Beartrap Canyon Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Bear Trap Canyon (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 181.8% — steep. 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~7.9 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Beartrap Canyon Wilderness elsewhere
Other camps near Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lambs Knoll Climbing Site~8.0 mi
- Spring Creek Canyon~8.4 mi
- Washington County~9.4 mi
- Deer Haven Campground~14.2 mi · fee
The unit that manages Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
Beartrap Canyon Wilderness is in the St. George Field Office, Color Country District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Kolob at 9,250 ft, about 7 miles away. It sits about 2,369 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
Source
Bureau of Land Management recreation data
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.
How it was placed
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Beartrap Canyon Wilderness
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Stay limits →How to read this page →All field notes →