Fremont River Cua Dispersed
Inside a national park unit
Fremont River Cua Dispersed sits inside Capitol Reef National Park — a national park run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/care ↗
This page calls it a dispersed camp because that is what the source record says. Inside a park unit that word does not mean camp anywhere.
Our record names USFS as the land manager; the Park Service’s own boundary map puts this point inside the unit. Two agencies disagree about one spot — ask the park first.
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2022-04-22). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
Everything you need — measured from Fremont River Cua Dispersed · Fishlake National Forest · UT
- FFuel4 mi
- WWater4 mi
- LLaundry4 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- ShShower5 mi
- DDump5 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- AAir-up12 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- EVEV fast charger30 mi
- OOutfitter41 mi
- RxPharmacy48 mi
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 30-mi run (and back).
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 — Fremont River Cua Dispersed
Nearby & resupply — around Fremont River Cua Dispersed · Fishlake National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSulphur Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townFruita · ~4.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.0 mi
- FuelPetroUS · ~3.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~5.0 mi
- GroceriesTaft Travel Plaza · ~4.6 mi
- HardwareBrian Farm Service · ~18.0 mi
EV charging — from Fremont River Cua Dispersed · Fishlake National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger30.3 mi straight-line N — RMP Ivie Creek (Salina, 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 36 within 100 · 86 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)51.5 mi — Richfield, UT - West 1250 South - Tesla Supercharger, Richfield
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO50.6 mi — Walmart 5168 (Richfield, UT), Richfield
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.5 mi — BROKEN SPUR STATION 2, Torrey, 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 387120 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Fremont River Cua Dispersed · Fishlake National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletFremont River Cua Dispersed · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomFD Vault Toilet Chimney Rock B71 · ~1.2 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomFD Visitor Center Restrooms · ~4.0 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomFD Visitor Center B06 · ~4.0 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Fremont River Cua Dispersed · Fishlake National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Sulphur Creek (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 62.1% — 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Fremont River Cua Dispersed elsewhere
Other camps near Fremont River Cua Dispersed
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- BLM public land~4.0 mi
- Zedds Meadow Cua Dispered~4.0 mi
- Sevier River~4.5 mi
- Sunglow Campground~10.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Fremont River Cua Dispersed
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Fremont River Cua Dispersed are set by Fishlake National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Donkey Reservoir at 9,800 ft, about 11 miles away. 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 — Fremont River Cua Dispersed
What we don’t know about Fremont River Cua Dispersed
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