Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Jackson Camping Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.01106, -110.95950
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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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Jackson Camping Area · Ashley National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 10149 (Timber Canyon), 0.2 mi from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 10149 (Timber Canyon), 0.2 mi from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 10149 (Timber Canyon): “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 Jackson Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,203 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Jackson Camping AreaNIFC · 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 Jackson Camping Area · 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
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- WWater9 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- DDump11 mi
- @Mail23 mi
- +Urgent care23 mi
- EVEV fast charger29 mi
- MMechanic29 mi
- RxPharmacy30 mi
- HHardware31 mi
- PPropane35 mi
- OOutfitter35 mi
- LLaundry36 mi
- AAir-up37 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Jackson Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,203 ft
Ground slope
62.9% · steep
Nearest rail line
~8.4 mi · other track
State
UT
Coordinates
40.01106, -110.95950
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Jackson Camping Area · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCottonwood Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townThree Forks · ~2.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.4 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.6 mi
- FuelKJs Catch and Snack · ~22.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~11.2 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~22.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicHelper Clinic · ~23.2 mi
EV charging — from Jackson Camping Area · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger29.2 mi straight-line S — Price, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 34 within 50 · 138 within 100 · 189 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS29.5 mi — PRICE CITY LEVEL 3 NORTH, Price
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO29.5 mi — PRICE CITY LEVEL 3 NORTH, Price
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.3 mi — STATE OF UTAH TIE FORK REST 2, Spanish Fork, 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 102461 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Jackson Camping Area · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomAspen Grove · ~8.8 mi NW · USFS
- Flush restroomSoldier Creek · ~11.2 mi NW · USFS
- Flush restroomRenegade · ~13.0 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAvintaquin · ~13.0 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Jackson Camping Area · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Cottonwood Creek (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 62.9% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 ~8.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~8.5 mi from the pin. 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 Jackson Camping Area elsewhere
Other camps near Jackson Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Wasatch County~8.4 mi
- Aspen Grove~8.8 mi · fee
- Soldier Creek~11.2 mi · fee
- Renegade~13.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Jackson Camping Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Jackson Camping Area 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 White River #1 at 8,620 ft, about 4 miles away. It sits about 417 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 — Jackson 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
no road or trail found nearby — check manually
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 Jackson 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.
- 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 — Jackson Camping Area
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →