Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · UT · 38.59766, -111.84772
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. 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 Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,024 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping · public land · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- DDump7 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- +Urgent care15 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
- EVEV fast charger16 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- AAir-up25 mi
- WWater28 mi
- ShShower31 mi
- OOutfitter54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 28-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
7,024 ft
Ground slope
6.6% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
38.59766, -111.84772
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping · public land · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureKoosharem Reservoir · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelGrass Valley Mercantile · ~6.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.4 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~6.3 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~15.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicIntermountain Healthcare · ~15.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~16.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping · public land · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger16.5 mi straight-line NW — Walmart 5168 (Richfield, UT) · Electrify America · CHAdeMO, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 36 within 100 · 151 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.4 mi — Richfield, UT - West 1250 South - Tesla Supercharger, Richfield
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.3 mi — Richfield Fairfield Inc · Blink Network · J1772 · 3 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 125446 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping · public land · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomKoosharem - Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMilo'S Kitchen Trailhead · ~5.9 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletKoosharem Canyon/Paiute Atv Trailhead · ~5.9 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBig Lake Cua Dispersed · ~7.3 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping · public land · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Koosharem Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 6.6% — gentle. 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.
- 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 Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Koosharem Reservoir~0.2 mi
- Koosharem Canyon/Paiute ATV~6.0 mi
- Milo's Kitchen Trailhead~7.2 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — Sevier County, UT~7.3 mi
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Fish Lake Utah at 8,780 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 1,756 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 — Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Koosharem Reservoir Dispersed Camping
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