Agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirmRoad season: open (MVUM)
Chicken Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 39.53020, -111.77348
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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 — Chicken Creek Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 50117 (Chicken Creek Campground), 40 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 50117 (Chicken Creek Campground), 40 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 50117 (Chicken Creek Campground): “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 Chicken Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,103 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Chicken Creek 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 Chicken Creek Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- EVEV fast charger11 mi
- DDump11 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- WWater13 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
- PPropane40 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, 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 — Chicken Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,103 ft
Ground slope
6.5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~8.0 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~8.8 mi · Interstate 15
State
UT
Coordinates
39.53020, -111.77348
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Chicken Creek Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureChicken Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townLevan · ~5.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.0 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~8.8 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~10.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~11.3 mi
- GroceriesJuanita's · ~10.0 mi
- PharmacySkyline Pharmacy · ~17.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicCVMC Fountain Green Medical Clinic · ~9.7 mi
- HardwareChoice Hardware & Home Center · ~13.8 mi
EV charging — from Chicken Creek Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger10.8 mi straight-line N — Nephi, UT - 2120 S Main St - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 reach2 within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 127 within 100 · 168 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS26.4 mi — Flying J Scipio (Scipio, UT), Scipio
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO41.6 mi — Love's 581 (Salina, UT), Salina
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.7 mi — SCO SANPETE VAL H 1, Mount Pleasant, 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 262360 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Chicken Creek Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletChicken Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletEast Camping Loop - Vault Toilet 6 · ~15.1 mi SW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletEast Camping Loop - Vault Toilet 4 · ~15.2 mi SW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWest Camping Loop - Vault Toilet 1 · ~15.2 mi SW · BLM
Coming out here — Chicken Creek Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Chicken Creek as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 6.5% — 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 ~8.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. 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 ~8.8 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 Chicken Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Chicken Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Maple Canyon Campground~5.0 mi · fee
- Ponderosa~16.8 mi · fee
- Yuba Lake Recreation Area~17.0 mi
- Cottonwood~17.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Chicken Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Chicken Creek Campground are set by Manti-La Sal National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Rees Flat at 7,190 ft, about 3 miles away. It sits about 1,087 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 — Chicken Creek Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Chicken Creek 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 — Chicken Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Picking a spot →All field notes →