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Hideout Canyon Camping Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 38.69047, -109.19077
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
What the record says about the site — Hideout Canyon Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Listed as a backcountry site
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 Hideout Canyon Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,572 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Hideout Canyon Camping AreaNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Hideout Canyon Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- WWater21 mi
- HHardware21 mi
- LLaundry21 mi
- AAir-up21 mi
- OOutfitter21 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- DDump21 mi
- RxPharmacy21 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- +Urgent care40 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 21-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 mi out.
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 — Hideout Canyon Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
5,572 ft
Ground slope
2.7% · flat
State
UT
Coordinates
38.69047, -109.19077
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Hideout Canyon Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFisher Creek · ~0.7 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Hideout Canyon (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townGateway · ~11.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~11.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~21.1 mi
- GroceriesGateway Canyons General Store · ~11.7 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~21.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicMoab Regional Hospital · ~21.4 mi
- HardwareStandard Plumbing Supply Company · ~20.9 mi
EV charging — from Hideout Canyon Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.0 mi straight-line W — Moab, UT - North Main Street - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 54 within 100 · 108 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO40.8 mi — FRCIVICCENTER CPE 250 #1, Fruita
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)21.2 mi — Field Station Moab - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 6 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Homewood Suites by Hilton Moab - Tesla Destination, Moab, 21.0 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 250740 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Hideout Canyon Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomHideout Toilet Structure · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletFisher Mesa Trailhead · ~5.1 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBull Canyon Overlook · ~5.4 mi S · USFS
- RestroomFisher Towers Toilet · ~6.8 mi W · BLM
Coming out here — Hideout Canyon Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Fisher Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.7 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 2.7% — flat. 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 Hideout Canyon Camping Area elsewhere
Other camps near Hideout Canyon Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Fisher Towers Campground~6.8 mi
- Cowskin Campground~7.6 mi
- Upper Onion Creek Camping Area~8.5 mi
- Hittle Bottom Campground~8.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Hideout Canyon Camping Area
Hideout Canyon Camping Area is in the Moab Field Office, Canyon Country District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Lasal Mountain at 9,580 ft, about 15 miles away. It sits about 4,008 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 — Hideout Canyon Camping 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.
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 Hideout Canyon Camping 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.
- 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
Before you go — Hideout Canyon Camping Area
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →All field notes →