Agency-listedBLM · dispersedUnpriced · confirm
Horseshoe Knolls
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 40.61244, -112.69878
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Horseshoe Knolls
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,448 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Horseshoe KnollsNIFC · 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 Horseshoe Knolls · 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
- FFuel11 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- WWater19 mi
- HHardware21 mi
- OOutfitter21 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- AAir-up23 mi
- LLaundry32 mi
- PPropane34 mi
- ShShower37 mi
- DDump38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Horseshoe Knolls
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
4,448 ft
Ground slope
12% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~8.7 mi · industrial lead
Nearest highway
~9.4 mi · Interstate 80
State
UT
Coordinates
40.61244, -112.69878
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Horseshoe Knolls · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureStream · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townGrantsville · ~12.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.7 mi · industrial lead
- Nearest highway~9.4 mi · Interstate 80
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~11.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSoelberg's Market · ~12.7 mi
- PharmacyBirch Family Pharmacy · ~12.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicMountain West Medical Center · ~21.3 mi
- HardwareDiamond Rental · ~21.3 mi
EV charging — from Horseshoe Knolls · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.4 mi straight-line E — Tooele Motor Company (Level 3) · Blink Network · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 69 within 50 · 136 within 100 · 166 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.0 mi — WinCo Foods - West Valley #75, West Valley City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.3 mi — STATE OF UTAH GRASSY MNT WB 1, Grantsville, 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 448342 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Horseshoe Knolls · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLoop · ~10.0 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletUpper Narrows · ~10.0 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Narrows · ~10.0 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBoy Scout · ~10.3 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Horseshoe Knolls · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: 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 12% — 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 ~8.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as an industrial lead. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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.
- Interstate 80 is mapped ~9.4 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Horseshoe Knolls elsewhere
Other camps near Horseshoe Knolls
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- North Stansbury Mountains~5.0 mi
- Tooele County~8.0 mi
- Loop~10.0 mi · fee
- Upper Narrows~10.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Horseshoe Knolls
Horseshoe Knolls is in the Salt Lake Field Office, West Desert 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 Mining Fork at 8,290 ft, about 9 miles away. It sits about 3,842 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 — Horseshoe Knolls
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Horseshoe Knolls
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 — Horseshoe Knolls
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Leave no trace →All field notes →