Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Greens Lake
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.87365, -109.54050
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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 — Greens Lake · Ashley National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 10386 (Greens Lake), 140 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 10386 (Greens Lake), 140 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 10386 (Greens Lake): “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 Greens Lake
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,468 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Greens LakeNIFC · 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 Greens Lake · Ashley National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower4 mi
- DDump4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- WWater5 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- PPropane29 mi
- OOutfitter29 mi
- EVEV fast charger29 mi
- MMechanic29 mi
- RxPharmacy29 mi
- +Urgent care50 mi
- AAir-up52 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 — Greens Lake
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,468 ft
Ground slope
6% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
40.87365, -109.54050
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Greens Lake · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townFlaming Gorge · ~3.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~5.2 mi
- FuelFuel · ~4.5 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~28.8 mi
- Dump station~4.5 mi
- GroceriesFlaming Gorge Recreation Services · ~8.2 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~29.4 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~12.3 mi
EV charging — from Greens Lake · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger28.9 mi straight-line S — RMP Vernal (Vernal, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 6 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 · 3 within 50 · 15 within 100 · 203 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)30.2 mi — Vernal, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Vernal
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO29.0 mi — TriCounty Health Dep, Vernal
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)28.9 mi — RAINBOW MAN DINOSAUR INN, Vernal, 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 347509 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Greens Lake · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGreens Lake · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCanyon Rim · ~0.8 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCanyon Rim Overlook · ~0.8 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSkull Creek · ~1.0 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Greens Lake · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Creek as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 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 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.
- 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.
- 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 Greens Lake elsewhere
Other camps near Greens Lake
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Canyon Rim~0.8 mi · fee
- Skull Creek~1.0 mi · fee
- Red Canyon~1.5 mi · fee
- Greendale Campground~4.2 mi
The unit that manages Greens Lake
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Greens Lake are set by Ashley National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Kings Cabin at 8,740 ft, about 11 miles away. It sits about 1,272 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 — Greens Lake
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 2026-08-22: the agency's three channels give three different single-site numbers, so budget the highest. The Forest Service's own recreation-site record states "Single Site: $31 per night (Tuesday-Wednesday); $32 per night (Thursday-Monday); Group Site: $114 per night (up to 40 people)" (https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=objectid%3D2550911&outFields=site_name,fee_description&f=json) . recreation.gov agrees exactly on the $114 group rate for the current 2026-05-15 to 2026-09-17 season, but its rate table prices a standard non-electric site at $0.00 while the top of the same listing advertises $25.00 -- a listing cannot both charge nothing and advertise a price, so neither of those is usable. The Ashley page only says "See www.recreation.gov for current rates." So: group $114, confirmed twice; single $31-$32, on the agency recreation-site record alone. The camp sits on Red Canyon Road, and the forest names Red Canyon as part of the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area. This camp is inside the Flaming Gorge National Recreation Area, which charges its own Recreational Use Pass on top of the campsite fee -- $5 day / $15 week / $35 annual, and the forest states these are NOT sold online, only at its offices and local vendors (https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/ashley/recreation/flaming-gorge-national-recreation-area-0, last updated March 27, 2025). Sources: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233822 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/ashley/recreation/greens-lake-campground (printed coordinates 0.001 mi from our pin; last updated March 31, 2025).
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 Greens Lake
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 — Greens Lake
Camping near a reservoir →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Power off-grid →All field notes →