Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFee
Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 37.22400, -113.40500
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Red Cliffs Recreation Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,206 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Red Cliffs Recreation AreaNIFC · 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 Red Cliffs Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail3 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- +Urgent care5 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- WWater7 mi
- HHardware7 mi
- DDump7 mi
- AAir-up7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- RxPharmacy7 mi
- OOutfitter10 mi
- ShShower13 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
3,206 ft
Ground slope
14.1% · noticeable
Nearest highway
~1.0 mi · Interstate 15
State
UT
Coordinates
37.22400, -113.40500
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Red Cliffs Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureQuail Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Leeds Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLeeds · ~2.5 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~1.0 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.8 mi
- FuelPurgatory Jail · ~4.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.1 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~4.2 mi
- PharmacyDavis Drug Pharmacy · ~7.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicHurricane Valley Clinic · ~5.2 mi
- HardwarePeterbilt · ~8.9 mi
EV charging — from Red Cliffs Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.7 mi straight-line NE — Toquerville, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-21 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach10 within 25 mi · 19 within 50 · 29 within 100 · 119 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS9.2 mi — Walmart 1439 (Washington, UT), Washington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO15.1 mi — EV EXPERIENCE FAST CHARGER1, St. George
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.3 mi — Sleep Inn & Suites Hurricane Zion Park Area · NOODOE · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Comfort Inn & Suites Zion Park Area, Hurricane, 4.9 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only
- 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 450027 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Red Cliffs Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletRed Cliffs Romtec Vault Toilet - West · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletRed Cliffs Romtec Vault Toilet- East · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet Romtec Aspen · ~1.1 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCottonwood Romtec Vault Toilet · ~2.8 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — Red Cliffs Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Quail Creek as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 14.1% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~1.0 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Red Cliffs Recreation Area elsewhere
Other camps near Red Cliffs Recreation Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Leeds Designated Dispersed~3.4 mi
- Leeds Canyon Dispersed Camping #6~3.4 mi
- Leeds Canyon Dispersed Camping #7/#8~3.5 mi
- Leeds Canyon Dispersed Camping~3.6 mi
The unit that manages Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Red Cliffs Recreation Area is in the St. George Field Office, Color Country District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Gardner Peak at 8,320 ft, about 13 miles away. It sits about 5,114 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 — Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Fee note
Per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "Day Use Activity Pass : $5 per vehicle Pay via credit card with the Recreation.gov Mobile App www.recreation.gov/mobile-app . It is recommended that you download this app before arrival as cell phone reception is unrelia…" https://www.blm.gov/visit/red-cliffs-recreation-area
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field states a fee ("Day Use Activity Pass : $5 per vehicle Pay via credit card with the Recreation.gov Mobile App www.recreation.gov/mobile-") (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | Fee 2026-09-19: $5 per vehicle Pay via credit card with the Recreation.gov Mobile App www.recreation.gov/m -- page says "Day Use Activity Pass : $5 per vehicle Pay via credit card with the Recreation.gov Mobile App www.recreation.gov/mobile-app . It is recommended that you download this app before arrival as cell phone reception is unrelia…". Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/red-cliffs-recreation-area (worker_W, figure verified on that page).
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 Red Cliffs Recreation Area
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 — Red Cliffs Recreation Area
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →