Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Dry Canyon
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 42.05781, -112.14283
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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 — Dry Canyon · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 71224 (Left Fork Dry Canyon), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 71224 (Left Fork Dry Canyon), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 71224 (Left Fork Dry Canyon): “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 Dry Canyon
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,314 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Dry CanyonNIFC · 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 Dry Canyon · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- WWater5 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- ShShower23 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
- PPropane27 mi
- DDump43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Dry Canyon
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,314 ft
Ground slope
6.8% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~4.8 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~3.8 mi · Interstate 15
State
ID
Coordinates
42.05781, -112.14283
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Dry Canyon · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townPortage · ~7.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~4.8 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~3.8 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.7 mi
- FuelCJ's Travel Stop · ~3.7 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven Propane Exchange · ~26.1 mi
- GroceriesTop Stop · ~10.1 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~19.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicNell J. Redfield Memorial Hospital · ~10.6 mi
- HardwareWard's ACE & Country Store · ~10.1 mi
EV charging — from Dry Canyon · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.1 mi straight-line S — Tremonton, UT (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS · 12 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 · 18 within 50 · 105 within 100 · 179 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)24.2 mi — Tremonton, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Tremonton
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO24.4 mi — MURDOCK CACHE V LOT WEST, Hyde Park
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)23.1 mi — SCO BEAR RIVER H 1, Tremonton, 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 467823 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dry Canyon · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDry Canyon · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletThird Creek Group Area · ~9.3 mi N · USFS
- RestroomNewton Recreation Management Area Restroom- Restroom Building · ~14.0 mi SE · BoR
- RestroomNewton Recreation Management Area Restroom- Restroom Building · ~14.0 mi SE · BoR
Coming out here — Dry Canyon · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 6.8% — 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 ~4.8 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.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~3.8 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 Dry Canyon elsewhere
Other camps near Dry Canyon
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Third Creek Group Area~9.3 mi · fee
- Heart Mountain Springs Recreation Site~21.2 mi
- Malad Summit~21.3 mi · fee
- High Creek Campground~21.7 mi
The unit that manages Dry Canyon
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Dry Canyon are set by Caribou-Targhee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Clarkston Mountain at 6,690 ft, about 4 miles away. It sits about 376 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 — Dry Canyon
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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
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 Dry Canyon
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 — Dry Canyon
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →Leave no trace →All field notes →