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BLM public land
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · Washington County, UT · 37.19741, -113.22901
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A primitive clearing at the bottom of a canyon near the Virgin River in BLM land. This does not resemble a campsite however it offers some rare shade and superb protection from the desert elements. This is four-wheel drive access only, featuring a steep and rocky descent into the canyon. Suitable for a couple of vehicles, and worthy of exploration. Take a swim in the Virgin River to cool off. A lot of ants were present here. Recommended. No cell service.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 22 June 2017. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at BLM public land
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,422 ft.
Fire & smoke — around BLM public landNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 BLM public land · 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
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- RxPharmacy3 mi
- ShShower3 mi
- MMechanic4 mi
- LLaundry4 mi
- HHardware4 mi
- +Urgent care6 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- DDump10 mi
- WWater13 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- AAir-up15 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — BLM public land
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
3,422 ft
Ground slope
4.6% · gentle
Nearest highway
~7.0 mi · Interstate 15
County
Washington County, UT
Coordinates
37.19741, -113.22901
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureVirgin River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Chinatown Wash (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townVirgin · ~2.3 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~7.0 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~3.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~10.2 mi
- GroceriesExtraMile · ~1.1 mi
- PharmacyDavis Drug Pharmacy · ~2.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicHurricane Valley Clinic · ~5.8 mi
- HardwareSol Foods Hardware · ~12.6 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
High clearance / 4×4
Fire ring
No
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.1 mi straight-line NW — 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 reach10 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 30 within 100 · 122 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS16.7 mi — Walmart 1439 (Washington, UT), Washington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO21.9 mi — EV EXPERIENCE FAST CHARGER1, St. George
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.7 mi — Utah Wyndham, Hurricane, UT · NOODOE · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Best Western Plus Zion West Hotel - Tesla Destination, La Verkin, 2.5 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
Level 2, restricted access — Zion's Camp and Cottages, La Verkin, 2.5 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; 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 BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletVirgin Dam Vault Toilet- Sst · ~0.3 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletThe Falls Vault Toilet #1 (Sst) · ~1.2 mi E · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletSheep Bridge Romtec Vault Toilet · ~1.5 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletJem Trailhead Romtec Vault Toilet · ~4.1 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Virgin River as a perennial river, ~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 4.6% — 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 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 ~7.0 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 BLM public land elsewhere
Other camps near BLM public land
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
The unit that manages BLM public land
BLM public land 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.
How we know this — BLM public land
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Washington County, UT). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 22 June 2017. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about BLM public land
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — BLM public land
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →How to read this page →All field notes →