Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFee
Little Sahara Recreation Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 39.72649, -112.30742
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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 Little Sahara Recreation Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,233 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Little Sahara Recreation 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 Little Sahara Recreation Area · 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
- DDump4 mi
- GGrocery19 mi
- FFuel19 mi
- MMechanic19 mi
- @Mail19 mi
- WWater24 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- ShShower25 mi
- PPropane30 mi
- +Urgent care32 mi
- RxPharmacy33 mi
- AAir-up40 mi
- OOutfitter46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 19 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 — Little Sahara Recreation Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
5,233 ft
Ground slope
0.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~3.9 mi · main line
State
UT
Coordinates
39.72649, -112.30742
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Little Sahara Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureJericho Wash · ~0.2 mi · USGS: ephemeral stream
- Nearest townLeamington · ~13.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~3.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelGas Hole · ~18.7 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~29.5 mi
- Dump station~3.8 mi
- GroceriesTaylor's General Store · ~18.6 mi
- HardwareChoice Hardware & Home Center · ~25.0 mi
EV charging — from Little Sahara Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger25.0 mi straight-line E — Nephi, UT - 2120 S Main St - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 126 within 100 · 170 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS30.8 mi — Murdock Ford, Santaquin
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO46.1 mi — PROVOAIRPORT DCFAST CHARGE 1, Provo
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)29.3 mi — SCO DELTA HOSP-1 · 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 262360 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Little Sahara Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomVc Flush Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomLittle Sahara Visitor Center · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWhite Sands South Loop Vault Toilet 1 · ~0.9 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWhite Sands South Loop Vault Toilet 2 · ~0.9 mi NW · BLM
Coming out here — Little Sahara Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Jericho Wash as an ephemeral stream, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as ephemeral — it carries water only during and right after storms or snowmelt. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 0.6% — flat. 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 ~3.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- 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.
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Other camps near Little Sahara Recreation Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Rockwell~7.3 mi
- Vernon Reservoir~18.3 mi · fee
- Vernon Reservoir Campground~18.8 mi
The unit that manages Little Sahara Recreation Area
Little Sahara Recreation Area is in the Fillmore 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.
How we know this — Little Sahara Recreation Area
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 states a fee ("$18/vehicle/night $120 Annual Pass $60 for Seniors and Persons with Disabilities Passes can be purchased onsite or ahead") (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 Little Sahara Recreation 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.
- 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