Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Mount Carmel Free Campsite
Drive-up · public land · UT · 37.20715, -112.67550
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
What the record says about the site — Mount Carmel Free Campsite · public land · UT
- No toilet
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Mount Carmel Free Campsite
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,494 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mount Carmel Free CampsiteNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Mount Carmel Free Campsite · public land · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- ShShower2 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- WWater12 mi
- DDump12 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- PPropane43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Mount Carmel Free Campsite
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,494 ft
Ground slope
8.7% · noticeable
State
UT
Coordinates
37.20715, -112.67550
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Mount Carmel Free Campsite · public land · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureEast Fork Virgin River · ~0.6 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~1.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~12.3 mi
- GroceriesShell · ~1.2 mi
- PharmacyKanab Drug · ~13.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicFredonia Community Health Center · ~18.9 mi
- HardwareHardware · ~14.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Mount Carmel Free Campsite · public land · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.1 mi straight-line SE — Honey's Marketplace - Tesla Supercharger, Kanab, UT (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 10 within 50 · 31 within 100 · 52 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS38.3 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO38.3 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.7 mi — KANAB CENTER KANAB ST3 · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Days Inn & Suites - Kanab, UT - Tesla Destination, Kanab, 13.3 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.57 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 462303 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mount Carmel Free Campsite · public land · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPeekaboo Single Vault Toilet · ~6.6 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletPeekaboo Staging Area Double Vault Toilet · ~6.6 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletPonderosa Grove Campground Vault Toilet. · ~8.1 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletPonderosa Grove Campground Group Site Vault Toilet · ~8.2 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — Mount Carmel Free Campsite · public land · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps East Fork Virgin River as a perennial river, ~0.6 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 8.7% — 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.
- 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.
Open Mount Carmel Free Campsite elsewhere
Other camps near Mount Carmel Free Campsite
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — Kane County, UT (37.2058, -112.6901)~0.8 mi
- Zion Scenic Byway Dispersed Camping~6.2 mi
- Peek-A-Boo Slot Canyon~6.7 mi
- Peek-A-Boo Staging Area~6.7 mi
Who holds the land at Mount Carmel Free Campsite
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Kanab Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Mount Carmel Free Campsite
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)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Mount Carmel Free Campsite
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 — Mount Carmel Free Campsite
Water on public land →Stay limits →Your first dispersed night →Reading the aerial →All field notes →