Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedUnpriced · confirm
Long Park Boat Launch Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.90752, -109.87489
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Long Park Boat Launch Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,657 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Long Park Boat Launch 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 Long Park Boat Launch 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
- WWater9 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- DDump22 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- @Mail25 mi
- +Urgent care35 mi
- RxPharmacy35 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- MMechanic36 mi
- OOutfitter36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Long Park Boat Launch Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
8,657 ft
State
UT
Coordinates
40.90752, -109.87489
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Long Park Boat Launch Area · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLong Park Reservoir (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townMcKinnon · ~8.9 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.9 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~9.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~21.8 mi
- GroceriesFlaming Gorge Market · ~9.8 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~9.8 mi
Nearby restrooms — around Long Park Boat Launch Area · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPalisades Park · ~3.9 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBrowne Lake · ~4.5 mi SE · USFS
- RestroomSummit Springs Guard Station · ~7.0 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCarmel · ~7.7 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Long Park Boat Launch Area · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Long Park Reservoir (water). 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.
- 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 Long Park Boat Launch Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Browne Lake Campground~4.5 mi
- Carmel~7.7 mi · fee
- Spirit Lake Campground~8.2 mi
- Deep Creek~8.3 mi · fee
The unit that manages Long Park Boat Launch Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Long Park Boat Launch 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 Hickerson Park at 9,120 ft, about 5 miles away. It sits about 463 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 — Long Park Boat Launch Area
Source
public land records
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
USFS Recreation Area Activities, activity 'Dispersed Camping', pulled 2026-09-19: https://www.fs.usda.gov/recarea/ashley/recarea/?recid=72379 | state resolved by nearest camp; other sources disagreed | agency openstatus: none || REVIEW 2026-09-24 (nightshift-verified): The recid URL above now 301s to the forest's recreation landing page (a made-up recid does the same). Live page https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/ashley/recreation/long-park-boat-launch-area (read 2026-09-24): 'There are spectacular views of the mountains with great trails and dispersed camping in the area.' No restrooms, no potable water, year-round. Page lat/lon 40.907524,-109.874894; directions: FS 221 to FS 014, north .6 mi to the boat launch area. APPROVED: COORDINATE CORRECTED: the lead's 40.881502,-109.854413 is 3.3 km SE, next to MVUM roads 10221/10009/10010 (Hickerson Park-Birch Cr, Sheep Cr Lake, Canal) -- the wrong place. The page point is 26 m from MVUM road 10014 'LONG PARK RESERVOIR' (the page's 'FS 014') and ~0.48 km from MVUM spurs 10813/10814 'LONG PK RESERVOIR DISPERSED C' / 'LONG PARK RES DISPERSED B'. No published pin within 4 km. No fee stated -> unpriced. The only Ashley alert is Flaming Gorge water levels (a different reservoir). No EDW record for this recid. The pin marks the launch; the dispersed spurs are nearby. (lead coordinate before this review: 40.881502,-109.854413)
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 Long Park Boat Launch 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
Before you go — Long Park Boat Launch Area
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →