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High Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 41.97644, -111.73534
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at High Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,505 ft.
Fire & smoke — around High Creek 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 High Creek Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- RxPharmacy5 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- +Urgent care6 mi
- WWater10 mi
- OOutfitter10 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- AAir-up13 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- PPropane17 mi
- ShShower19 mi
- DDump22 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, 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 — High Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,505 ft
State
UT
Coordinates
41.97644, -111.73534
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around High Creek Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHigh Creek (stream) · nearby
- Nearest townCove · ~3.7 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelConoco · ~11.2 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven Propane Exchange · ~16.0 mi
- Dump station~21.8 mi
- GroceriesLee's Marketplace · ~5.4 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~5.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicBeaver Mountain Ski Patrol · ~10.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~12.0 mi
EV charging — from High Creek Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.9 mi straight-line S — MURDOCK CACHE V LOT EAST, Hyde Park, UT · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach9 within 25 mi · 17 within 50 · 112 within 100 · 178 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.3 mi — Mike's Market - Tesla Supercharger (Car Charging Pros), Garden City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.4 mi — ASPIRE Research Center, Logan, UT (at a research facility) · Non-Networked · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 3 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-11-13 · hours: 8am-5pm 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 387657 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around High Creek Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletHigh Creek Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSmithfield · ~6.6 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTony Grove Lake Day Use Area · ~7.4 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSmithfield Campground · ~7.4 mi S · USFS
Open High Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near High Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Smithfield Campground~7.4 mi · fee
- Tony Grove Lake Campground~7.5 mi · fee
- Red Banks Campground~10.3 mi · fee
- Lewis M. Turner Campground~10.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages High Creek Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at High Creek 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 Klondike Narrows at 7,280 ft, about 7 miles away. It sits about 1,775 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 — High Creek Campground
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)
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 High Creek 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.
- 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 — High Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading the aerial →All field notes →
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