Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Mill Hollow Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.48964, -111.10353
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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 — Mill Hollow Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 70281A (Mill Hollow Cg Loop A), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 70281A (Mill Hollow Cg Loop A), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 70281A (Mill Hollow Cg Loop A): “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 Mill Hollow Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,873 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mill Hollow 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 Mill Hollow Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump7 mi
- ShShower9 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- WWater14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- AAir-up32 mi
- PPropane37 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Mill Hollow Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,873 ft
Ground slope
15.4% · steep
State
UT
Coordinates
40.48964, -111.10353
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Mill Hollow Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMill Hollow Reservoir · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townTimber Lakes · ~7.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.4 mi
- FuelExxon · ~13.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~6.8 mi
- GroceriesJoe's Country Store · ~12.5 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~16.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicWasatch County Family Clinic · ~15.8 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~14.1 mi
EV charging — from Mill Hollow Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.3 mi straight-line NW — Park City, UT (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 93 within 50 · 141 within 100 · 168 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO33.4 mi — SUMMIT COUNTY COALVILLE QC, Coalville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.2 mi — SUMMIT COUNTY KAMAS 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 452387 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mill Hollow Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMill Hollow · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWolf Creek · ~3.8 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Provo River · ~7.2 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSoapstone · ~7.3 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Mill Hollow Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Mill Hollow 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 15.4% — steep. 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 Mill Hollow Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Mill Hollow Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Wolf Creek~3.8 mi · fee
- Soapstone Comfort Camps~6.8 mi · fee
- Lower Provo River~7.2 mi · fee
- Soapstone~7.3 mi · fee
The unit that manages Mill Hollow Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Mill Hollow Campground are set by Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Wolf Creek Peak at 9,770 ft, about 3 miles away. It sits about 897 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 — Mill Hollow Campground
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) | Fee 2026-09-29: the two numbers recreation.gov publishes disagree, and both are here. Its rate table (a first-come, first-served block, 2026-05-29 to 2026-09-12) reads $26.83 for a standard or tent-only site. The concessionaire's fee text on the same listing (last edited 2026-08-10) reads "27 single sites - $30.00", plus $10 per extra vehicle and $15 day use. Carry $30. The Uinta-Wasatch-Cache page publishes no amount, shows "Site Closed" and gives the 2026 season as May 29 - September 13, now over. Sources: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233847 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/uinta-wasatch-cache/recreation/mill-hollow-campground (last updated September 15, 2026).
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 Mill Hollow 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 — Mill Hollow Campground
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →