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BLM public land
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · Wayne County, UT · 38.29836, -111.38893
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A primitive campsite in BLM area just outside of Torrey, near the entrance to Capitol Reef. Surrounded by red rocks with great views to the east. Some cell service. Enough room for multiple vehicles. This is a popular boondocking spot, so expect others, especially park visitors. Fire ring. Recommended due to convenience to both town and the park.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 25 October 2018. 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 6,756 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
- LLaundry1 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- ShShower1 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- WWater7 mi
- DDump8 mi
- AAir-up8 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- +Urgent care9 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- EVEV fast charger32 mi
- OOutfitter38 mi
- RxPharmacy46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 32-mi run (and back).
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
6,756 ft
Ground slope
17.7% · steep
County
Wayne County, UT
Coordinates
38.29836, -111.38893
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSand Creek · ~1.0 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townTorrey · ~2.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~6.9 mi
- FuelPhillips 66 · ~0.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.8 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~0.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicWayne Community Health Center & Pharmacy · ~9.2 mi
- HardwareBrian Farm Service · ~15.3 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
Had a signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
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 charger31.6 mi straight-line N — RMP Ivie Creek (Salina, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 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 · 5 within 50 · 32 within 100 · 91 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)49.7 mi — Richfield, UT - West 1250 South - Tesla Supercharger, Richfield
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO48.8 mi — Walmart 5168 (Richfield, UT), Richfield
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.6 mi — BROKEN SPUR STATION 2, Torrey, 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 387120 · 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 toiletSand Creek Gwt Trailhead · ~2.5 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFremont River Cua Dispersed · ~4.0 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomFD Vault Toilet Chimney Rock B71 · ~4.8 mi E · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletZedds Meadow Cua Dispered · ~4.8 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Sand Creek as a perennial stream, ~1.0 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 17.7% — 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 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 BLM public land elsewhere
Other camps near BLM public land
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Fremont River Cua Dispersed~4.0 mi
- Zedds Meadow Cua Dispered~4.8 mi
- Sevier River~5.3 mi
- Sunglow Campground~7.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages BLM public land
BLM public land is in the Richfield 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 Donkey Reservoir at 9,800 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 3,044 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 — 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 (Wayne 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 25 October 2018. 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
What “dispersed” means here →Stay limits →Your first dispersed night →Reading the aerial →All field notes →