Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Lodgepole Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.81219, -109.46540
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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 — Lodgepole Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 10286 (Lodgepole C G), 110 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 10286 (Lodgepole C G), 110 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 10286 (Lodgepole C G): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; 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 Lodgepole Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,085 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lodgepole CampgroundNIFC · 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 Lodgepole Campground · 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
- DDump0 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- ShShower5 mi
- WWater7 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- LLaundry9 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- PPropane25 mi
- OOutfitter25 mi
- MMechanic25 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- AAir-up46 mi
- +Urgent care53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Lodgepole Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,085 ft
Ground slope
3.4% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
40.81219, -109.46540
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Lodgepole Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCart Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townDeer Lodge Summer Home Area · ~3.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.6 mi
- FuelCedar Springs Marina Floating Pump · ~7.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~0.1 mi
- GroceriesFlaming Gorge Market · ~18.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicAshley Valley Medical Center · ~24.7 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~18.1 mi
EV charging — from Lodgepole Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.9 mi straight-line S — RMP Vernal (Vernal, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 14 within 100 · 199 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)26.4 mi — Vernal, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Vernal
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO24.9 mi — TriCounty Health Dep, Vernal
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)24.8 mi — RAINBOW MAN DINOSAUR INN, Vernal, 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 347509 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lodgepole Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomLodgepole · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRed Springs · ~0.3 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHighline Trailhead · ~1.4 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGreendale Junction Pullout · ~3.7 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Lodgepole Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cart Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 3.4% — 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.
- 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 Lodgepole Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Lodgepole Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Red Springs Campground~0.3 mi
- Grizzly Ridge Meadow Camping Area~4.3 mi
- Greendale Group~4.8 mi · fee
- Skull Creek~4.8 mi · fee
The unit that manages Lodgepole Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Lodgepole Campground 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 Kings Cabin at 8,740 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 655 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 — Lodgepole Campground
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232139
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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | Fee 2026-09-29: no current rate published on recreation.gov -- its 2026 table (2026-05-15 to 2026-09-18) carries $0.00 for a standard site, a blank rather than a free campground. The only amount any agency channel prints is in the Forest Service recreation-site record: $28 per night Tuesday-Wednesday, $29 per night Thursday-Monday, single site. The Ashley NF page publishes no amount and points to recreation.gov. Treat $28/$29 as the agency's figure of unknown vintage: at nearby Firefighters Memorial the same record's day-of-week split has been replaced on recreation.gov by a flat rate $1-$2 higher, so this may also run slightly low. Extra vehicle $10 per day; dump station for a fee. This is the Lodgepole near Flaming Gorge, not the one near Heber. Sources: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=site_name%3D%27LODGEPOLE%27%20AND%20latitude%20%3E%2040.80%20AND%20latitude%20%3C%2040.82&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=json , https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232139 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/ashley/recreation/lodgepole-campground (last updated March 27, 2025).
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 Lodgepole Campground
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 — Lodgepole Campground
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Picking a spot →All field notes →