Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Potters Pond Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 39.45009, -111.27115
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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 — Potters Pond Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 52217 (Un-Named), 110 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 52217 (Un-Named), 110 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 52217 (Un-Named): “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 Potters Pond Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,982 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Potters Pond 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 Potters Pond Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower7 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- OOutfitter18 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- WWater24 mi
- DDump34 mi
- LLaundry34 mi
- AAir-up47 mi
- PPropane48 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Potters Pond Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,982 ft
Ground slope
5.8% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
39.45009, -111.27115
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Potters Pond Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLowry Water · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townMount Pleasant · ~11.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~11.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~11.6 mi
- PharmacySkyline Pharmacy · ~11.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicSanpete Valley Hospital · ~11.6 mi
EV charging — from Potters Pond Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.3 mi straight-line SE — STATE OF UTAH CASTLE DALE 2 · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 14 within 50 · 120 within 100 · 179 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)25.6 mi — Price, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Price
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)11.6 mi — SCO SANPETE VAL H 1, Mount Pleasant, UT · 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 164837 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Potters Pond Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletIndian Creek Group Campground · ~1.8 mi E · USFS
- RestroomHorse Canyon Trailhead · ~6.7 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLittle Bear Campground · ~7.1 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMillers Flat Nrt-Left Fork Of Huntington Trailhead · ~7.4 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Potters Pond Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lowry Water as a perennial stream, ~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 5.8% — 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.
- 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 Potters Pond Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Potters Pond Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Indian Creek Group Campground~1.8 mi · fee
- Miller Flat Reservoir Cg~5.1 mi · fee
- Horse Canyon Camping Area~6.7 mi
- Forks Of Huntington Campground~6.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Potters Pond Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Potters Pond Campground are set by Manti-La Sal National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Red Pine Ridge at 8,990 ft, less than a mile away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Potters Pond 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: $10 per night, single site, when reserved; equestrian sites $15 (larger equestrian unit $25), group site $40. But both agency channels also say something unusual: sites that are not reserved can be taken first-come, first-served for $3 per vehicle. recreation.gov's notice reads "Campsites that are not reserved are available on a first-come, first-served basis, for $3 per vehicle", and the Manti-La Sal page names double sites #8 and #10 and single site #3 as the FCFS sites at $3.00 per vehicle. Rates are from recreation.gov's current 2026-06-05 to 2026-10-04 peak season; the forest page gives the same $10 single, $30-$40 group, $15-$25 equestrian. Horse campers must use sites 16-19. Sources: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233892 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/manti-lasal/recreation/potters-pond-campground (last updated December 31, 2025).
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 Potters Pond 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 — Potters Pond Campground
When the high country opens →Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →Picking a spot →All field notes →