Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Friendship Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 41.66130, -111.66536
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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 — Friendship Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 20245 (Left Hand Fork), 0 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as improved native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 20245 (Left Hand Fork), 0 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Apr 15 – Dec 1. That season ends after Dec 1.
MVUM record for FR 20245 (Left Hand Fork): “04/15-12/01” 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 Friendship Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,417 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Friendship 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 Friendship Campground · 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
- WWater7 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- AAir-up9 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- +Urgent care9 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- PPropane10 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- OOutfitter11 mi
- DDump21 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 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 — Friendship Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,417 ft
Ground slope
11.9% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~9.5 mi · main line
State
UT
Coordinates
41.66130, -111.66536
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Friendship Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townProvidence · ~8.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.5 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~6.8 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~8.7 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~10.3 mi
- Dump station~20.7 mi
- GroceriesMaverik · ~8.7 mi
- PharmacyReed's Pharmacy · ~8.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicLiving Tree Urgent Care · ~9.2 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~8.9 mi
EV charging — from Friendship Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.9 mi straight-line NW — ASPIRE Research Center, Logan, UT (at a research facility) · Non-Networked · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-11-13 · hours: 8am-5pm daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach13 within 25 mi · 35 within 50 · 142 within 100 · 181 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)11.2 mi — LW Miller Charger, Logan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.8 mi — PROVIDENCE CITY ZOLLINGER PARK · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Utah State University - Life Sciences, Logan, 9.4 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; USU permit required
- Pricing at the fast chargerFree (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 428740 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Friendship Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletFriendship Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSpring Campground · ~0.6 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPioneer Campground · ~2.7 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletShenoah · ~2.7 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Friendship Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- 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 11.9% — noticeable. 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 ~9.5 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 Friendship Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Friendship Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Spring Campground~0.6 mi · fee
- Pioneer Campground~2.7 mi · fee
- Wapiti Campground~5.5 mi
- Spring Hollow Campground~6.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Friendship Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Friendship Campground 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 Temple Fork at 7,420 ft, about 11 miles away. It sits about 2,003 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 — Friendship Campground
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-21: recreation.gov listing 234151 -- the listing the forest page itself links -- prices only a GROUP standard non-electric area, at $57.74 per night for the current 2026-05-08 to 2026-10-03 season; it publishes no single-site rate, though the top of the listing advertises a starting price of $17.77. The Logan Ranger District page publishes no amount at all. So: a group booking is $57.74; a single-site rate is not published by either channel. Sources: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/234151 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/uinta-wasatch-cache/recreation/friendship-campground (last updated May 13, 2026).
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 Friendship 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 — Friendship Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Fire rules & restrictions →How to read this page →All field notes →