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Designated Campsite
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 38.70218, -109.81165
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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.
What the record says about the site — Designated Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Listed as a backcountry site
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Designated Campsite
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,897 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Designated CampsiteNIFC · 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 Designated Campsite · 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
- DDump6 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- WWater12 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- AAir-up17 mi
- @Mail17 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- MMechanic19 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Designated Campsite
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
4,897 ft
Ground slope
4.6% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~4.7 mi · main line
State
UT
Coordinates
38.70218, -109.81165
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Designated Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBartlett Wash · ~0.8 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townMoab · ~16.9 mi
- Nearest rail line~4.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~19.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~6.5 mi
- GroceriesMoonflower Community Cooperative · ~16.6 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~16.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicMoab Regional Hospital · ~16.2 mi
- HardwareTurner Lumber · ~16.4 mi
EV charging — from Designated Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.5 mi straight-line SE — RMP Moab (Moab, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 8 within 50 · 40 within 100 · 119 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)15.9 mi — Moab, UT - North Main Street - Tesla Supercharger, Moab
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO62.9 mi — STATE OF UTAH WELCOME WEST 2, Monticello
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.0 mi — Element Moab · Blink Network · J1772 · 6 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 348135 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Designated Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMill Canyon Dinosaur Track Site Vault Toilet · ~4.4 mi E · BLM
- RestroomLone Mesa Double Toilet(Double) · ~4.6 mi S · BLM
- RestroomNavajo Rocks West Trailhead Toilet · ~4.7 mi S · BLM
- RestroomPlateau Viewpoint Toilet · ~5.1 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — Designated Campsite · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Bartlett Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.8 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 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.
- Rail line mapped ~4.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in it.
- 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 Designated Campsite elsewhere
Other camps near Designated Campsite
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Designated Campsite~1.8 mi
- Lone Mesa Campground~4.0 mi
- Designated Campsite~5.3 mi
- Grand County~7.5 mi
The unit that manages Designated Campsite
Designated Campsite is in the Moab Field Office, Canyon 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 — Designated Campsite
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)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Designated Campsite
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 — Designated Campsite
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