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Birch Hollow
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 37.30976, -112.85634
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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 Birch Hollow
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,729 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Birch HollowNIFC · 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 Birch Hollow · 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
- WWater3 mi
- LLaundry3 mi
- ShShower3 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- DDump11 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- OOutfitter11 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- AAir-up26 mi
- +Urgent care27 mi
- PPropane46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Birch Hollow
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
6,729 ft
Ground slope
19.3% · steep
State
UT
Coordinates
37.30976, -112.85634
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Birch Hollow · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBirch Hollow (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townZion Lodge · ~6.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~2.9 mi
- FuelZion Mountain Ranch Trading Post · ~5.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~10.6 mi
- GroceriesSol Foods Cafe and Deli · ~10.6 mi
- PharmacyDavis Drug Pharmacy · ~23.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicKane County Hospital · ~25.2 mi
- HardwareSol Foods Hardware · ~11.6 mi
EV charging — from Birch Hollow · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.7 mi straight-line W — Toquerville, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-21 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 17 within 50 · 29 within 100 · 71 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS27.0 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.0 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.4 mi — Zion National Park - Zion Canyon Visitor Center, Springdale, UT (at a national park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-01-13 · hours: 8am-7:30pm daily (seasonal hours vary)
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Zion National Park Lodge, Springdale, 6.8 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for hotel guest use only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 450027 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Birch Hollow · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomWERO B165 Weeping Rock Vault Toilet · ~5.2 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomTemple of Sinawava Restroom · ~5.3 mi W · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletChamberlin Ranch Trailhead · ~5.3 mi N · BLM
- RestroomSCLO Scouts Lookout Composting Toilet · ~5.7 mi SW · NPS
Coming out here — Birch Hollow · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Birch Hollow (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 19.3% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
- 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 Birch Hollow elsewhere
Other camps near Birch Hollow
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Zion Scenic Byway Dispersed Camping~6.0 mi
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — Kane County, UT (37.2069, -112.8069)~7.6 mi
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — Kane County, UT (37.2058, -112.6901)~11.6 mi
- Mount Carmel Free Campsite~12.2 mi
The unit that manages Birch Hollow
Birch Hollow is in the Kanab Field Office, Paria River 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.
How we know this — Birch Hollow
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 Birch Hollow
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 — Birch Hollow
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Stay limits →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →