Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Diamond Group Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.07674, -111.38075
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Diamond Group Area · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 70029-B-PARKING (Diamond Fork Group Site 3), 60 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 70029-B-PARKING (Diamond Fork Group Site 3), 60 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 70029-B-PARKING (Diamond Fork Group Site 3): “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 →
What the record says about the site — Diamond Group Area · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Group reservations only
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 Diamond Group Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,411 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Diamond Group AreaNIFC · 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 Diamond Group Area · 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
- FFuel11 mi
- WWater12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- DDump12 mi
- PPropane12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- OOutfitter18 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Diamond Group Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,411 ft
Ground slope
18.6% · steep
Nearest rail line
~5.7 mi · main line
State
UT
Coordinates
40.07674, -111.38075
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Diamond Group Area · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureDiamond Fork · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~11.3 mi
- Propane / LPGHoliday Oil · ~12.3 mi
- Dump station~12.3 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~12.3 mi
- PharmacyMaple Mountain Pharmacy · ~12.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicMedical Center · ~13.8 mi
- HardwareSunroc · ~13.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Diamond Group Area · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.1 mi straight-line W — Walmart 4068 (Spanish Fork, 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 reach23 within 25 mi · 77 within 50 · 144 within 100 · 177 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.4 mi — Provo, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Provo
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.7 mi — VOLVO CAR USA PROVO DC2, Provo
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.1 mi — Provo - 20 L2, Mapleton, UT · EVGATEWAY · J1772 · 26 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 121757 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Diamond Group Area · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDiamond Fork Group Sites · ~0.6 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDry Canyon (Diamond Fork) · ~0.9 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRed Ledges · ~1.2 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletThree Forks · ~1.5 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Diamond Group Area · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Diamond Fork 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 18.6% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~5.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. 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 Diamond Group Area elsewhere
Other camps near Diamond Group Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Diamond Fork Group Sites~0.6 mi · fee
- Dry Canyon (Diamond Fork)~0.9 mi · fee
- Diamond~2.7 mi · fee
- Sawmill Hollow~4.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Diamond Group Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Diamond Group Area 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 Hobble Creek at 7,360 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 1,949 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 — Diamond Group Area
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.
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 Diamond Group Area
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 — Diamond Group Area
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Leave no trace →All field notes →