Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Moon Lake Group
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.56729, -110.50368
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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 — Moon Lake Group · Ashley National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 10313 (Moon Lake Group), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 10313 (Moon Lake Group), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 10313 (Moon Lake Group): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 Moon Lake Group
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,168 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Moon Lake GroupNIFC · 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 Moon Lake Group · 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
- GGrocery0 mi
- DDump8 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- WWater22 mi
- ShShower23 mi
- MMechanic25 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- OOutfitter41 mi
- RxPharmacy48 mi
- LLaundry48 mi
- EVEV fast charger50 mi
- PPropane51 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 22-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 50-mi run (and back).
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 — Moon Lake Group
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,168 ft
Ground slope
8.9% · noticeable
State
UT
Coordinates
40.56729, -110.50368
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Moon Lake Group · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMoon Lake · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townTabiona · ~18.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~13.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.6 mi
- GroceriesMoon Lake Lodge · ~0.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicThe Clinic · ~18.4 mi
- HardwareKohl's Hardware · ~28.5 mi
EV charging — from Moon Lake Group · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger50.1 mi straight-line E — Vernal, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 136 within 100 · 185 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS51.7 mi — RMP Vernal (Vernal, UT), Vernal
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO52.3 mi — TriCounty Health Dep, Vernal
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)32.6 mi — L&L Motor Company, Roosevelt, UT · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 334568 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Moon Lake Group · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMoon Lake Group · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLake Fork Trailhead · ~0.2 mi S · USFS
- RestroomMoon Lake · ~0.4 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCenter Park Trailhead · ~4.1 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Moon Lake Group · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Moon Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.2 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 8.9% — noticeable. 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 Moon Lake Group elsewhere
Other camps near Moon Lake Group
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Moon Lake~0.4 mi · fee
- Rock Creek Group Campground~6.3 mi · fee
- Miners Gulch Group Campground~6.7 mi · fee
- Yellowpine Campground~7.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Moon Lake Group
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Moon Lake Group 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 Lakefork #1 at 10,120 ft, about 4 miles away. It sits about 1,952 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 — Moon Lake Group
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-24: this pin is the GROUP unit, so there is no single-camper rate to quote: $100.00 per night for the group site. Both channels agree -- the Ashley NF's Moon Lake page says "$20/night for single site, and $32/night for double site and $100/night for the group site", and recreation.gov's MOON LAKE GROUP listing carries $100.00 group standard non-electric for the current 2026-05-22 to 2026-09-08 peak season. If you want an ordinary site rather than the group unit, that is the adjacent Moon Lake Campground at $20 single / $32 double. Caveat: the forest page was last updated March 20, 2025, and it covers the parent campground 0.42 mi from this pin; the Forest Service records this site's own type as GROUP CAMPGROUND. Sources: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/ashley/recreation/moon-lake-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231909 .
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 Moon Lake Group
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 — Moon Lake Group
When the high country opens →Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →