Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Intake
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.49801, -112.57108
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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 — Intake · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 80549 (Intake Cg), 0 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 80549 (Intake Cg), 0 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Apr 1 – Dec 1. That season ends after Dec 1.
MVUM record for FR 80549 (Intake Cg): “04/01-12/01” 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 Intake
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,293 ft.
Fire & smoke — around IntakeNIFC · 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 Intake · 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
- MMechanic9 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- EVEV fast charger15 mi
- AAir-up20 mi
- WWater25 mi
- LLaundry29 mi
- PPropane30 mi
- DDump33 mi
- ShShower36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 25-mi drive, 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 — Intake
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,293 ft
Ground slope
24.6% · steep
Nearest rail line
~6.4 mi · other track
State
UT
Coordinates
40.49801, -112.57108
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Intake · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouth Willow Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townGrantsville · ~9.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.4 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~9.0 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~29.9 mi
- GroceriesChevron · ~9.0 mi
- PharmacyBirch Family Pharmacy · ~9.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicOquirrih Family Practice · ~14.4 mi
- HardwareCAL Ranch Store · ~14.8 mi
EV charging — from Intake · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.8 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 · 83 within 50 · 138 within 100 · 161 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO32.2 mi — WinCo Foods - West Valley #75, West Valley City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.5 mi — AIRPORT HOTELS TOOELE-H2S 4 · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 Intake · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletIntake · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBoy Scout · ~0.5 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCottonwood · ~0.7 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Narrows · ~1.2 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Intake · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps South Willow Creek as a perennial stream, under 0.1 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 24.6% — steep. 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 ~6.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. 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.
- 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 Intake elsewhere
Other camps near Intake
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Boy Scout~0.5 mi · fee
- Cottonwood~0.7 mi · fee
- Lower Narrows~1.2 mi · fee
- Upper Narrows~1.3 mi · fee
The unit that manages Intake
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Intake 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 Mining Fork at 8,290 ft, about 2 miles away. It sits about 1,997 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 — Intake
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: $19.61 per night for a standard non-electric single site, for the current 2026-05-15 to 2026-09-14 peak season. The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache page publishes no amount and defers to recreation.gov, whose advertised $19.61 matches its own rate table. Sources: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10048198 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/uinta-wasatch-cache/recreation/intake-campground (last updated April 24, 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 Intake
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 — Intake
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Picking a spot →All field notes →