Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Box Elder Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 41.49591, -111.95241
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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 — Box Elder Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 20085 (Park Drive), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 20085 (Park Drive), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 20085 (Park Drive): “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 Box Elder Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,094 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Box Elder 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 Box Elder Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- PPropane3 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- MMechanic3 mi
- WWater3 mi
- HHardware3 mi
- @Mail3 mi
- +Urgent care4 mi
- RxPharmacy4 mi
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- DDump7 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- OOutfitter18 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, 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 — Box Elder Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,094 ft
Ground slope
5.3% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~4.0 mi · yard track
Nearest highway
~5.2 mi · Interstate 15
State
UT
Coordinates
41.49591, -111.95241
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Box Elder Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBox Elder Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townMantua · ~0.9 mi
- Nearest rail line~4.0 mi · yard track
- Nearest highway~5.2 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waterWater · ~3.4 mi
- FuelExxon · ~3.3 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~3.3 mi
- Dump station~7.2 mi
- Groceries7-Eleven · ~3.3 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~3.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~3.5 mi
- HardwareSouthfork Hardware · ~3.4 mi
EV charging — from Box Elder Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.9 mi straight-line W — GM - Hansen Cadillac of Brigham City · EV Connect · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach24 within 25 mi · 35 within 50 · 140 within 100 · 180 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)3.9 mi — Hansen Motor Company, Brigham City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO4.0 mi — Walmart 3454 (Perry, UT), Perry
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.4 mi — STATEOFUTDAS DWSBRIGHAMCITY1, Brigham City, 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 230884 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Box Elder Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomBox Elder Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Highway rest areaPerry (NB) · ~5.6 mi W
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~6.1 mi W · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~6.2 mi W · FWS
Coming out here — Box Elder Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Box Elder Creek as a perennial stream, under 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 5.3% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~4.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a yard track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~4.1 mi from the pin. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~5.2 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.
- 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 Box Elder Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Box Elder Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Willard Basin~7.3 mi
- Pioneer Campground~16.3 mi · fee
- Middle Fork Dispersed Camping~17.2 mi
- Friendship Campground~18.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Box Elder Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Box Elder Campground are set by Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Ben Lomond Trail at 5,970 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 876 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 — Box Elder Campground
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified.
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 Box Elder 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 — Box Elder Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Fire rules & restrictions →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →