Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.60007, -111.11618
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Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 80166 (Pine Valley Dispersed 1), 0 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 80166 (Pine Valley Dispersed 1), 0 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 80166 (Pine Valley Dispersed 1): “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 Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,503 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)NIFC · 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 Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) · 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
- DDump4 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- WWater9 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- OOutfitter9 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
- PPropane37 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 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 — Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
7,503 ft
Ground slope
7.2% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
40.60007, -111.11618
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureShingle Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townWoodland · ~6.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.0 mi
- FuelExxon · ~9.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~3.9 mi
- GroceriesJoe's Country Store · ~8.7 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~17.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicWasatch County Family Clinic · ~16.4 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~9.3 mi
EV charging — from Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.0 mi straight-line W — 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 reach2 within 25 mi · 100 within 50 · 147 within 100 · 170 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO26.5 mi — SUMMIT COUNTY COALVILLE QC, Coalville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)9.2 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 Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPine Valley · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Provo River · ~0.5 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletShingle Creek Atv · ~1.2 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletYellow Pine · ~3.7 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Shingle Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 7.2% — 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.
- 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 Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) elsewhere
Other camps near Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lower Provo River~0.5 mi · fee
- Horseman Camp~0.6 mi · fee
- Shingle Creek Atv~1.2 mi · fee
- Yellow Pine Camp~3.8 mi
The unit that manages Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed) 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 Beaver Divide at 8,230 ft, about a mile away. It sits about 727 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 — Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). [2026-07-21 usfs-prose-fee audit, tier 1B] Same Mirror Lake corridor vehicle fee: $10/3-day, $20/7-day, $60/season. Evidence re-pulled from USFS EDW RecInfraRecreationSites layer 0 (fields fee_description/fee_type/passes/permit_information, which the original ingest never requested). Row was published as fee=0 on the strength of fee_charged='N' alone. | 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: no per-night site rate is published for this camping area. The only amount the Forest Service publishes here is the Mirror Lake Scenic Corridor Recreation Area standard amenity fee, and it is charged per vehicle rather than per site: $10 for 3 days, $20 for 7 days, $60 annual. America the Beautiful interagency passes are honored in the corridor. Two agency channels give the same three amounts. Sources: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/uinta-wasatch-cache/recreation/mirror-lake-scenic-byway (last updated May 22, 2026) and the Forest Service recreation-site record https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=objectid%3D2548825&outFields=site_name,fee_description&f=json , which words them as $10/$20/$60 per vehicle.
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 Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
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 — Pine Valley Camp (Dispersed)
When the high country opens →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading the aerial →All field notes →