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Red Springs Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.80333, -109.70667
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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 — Red Springs Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 10059 (Big Park - High Line), 0.7 mi away. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 Red Springs Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 10,477 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Red Springs 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 Red Springs Campground · 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
- DDump13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- WWater14 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- PPropane26 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
- +Urgent care43 mi
- AAir-up53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — Red Springs Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
10,477 ft
Ground slope
15.4% · steep
State
UT
Coordinates
40.80333, -109.70667
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Red Springs Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCenter Creek · ~0.7 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Elk Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townBullionville · ~10.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~12.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~12.6 mi
- GroceriesFlaming Gorge Market · ~12.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicAshley Regional Medical Center · ~25.6 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~12.8 mi
EV charging — from Red Springs Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger25.8 mi straight-line S — RMP Vernal (Vernal, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 17 within 100 · 193 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)26.3 mi — Vernal, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Vernal
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO26.1 mi — TriCounty Health Dep, Vernal
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)25.9 mi — RAINBOW MAN DINOSAUR INN, Vernal, UT · 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 — Spark by Hilton Vernal - Tesla Destination, Vernal, 25.6 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 347509 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Red Springs Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCarter Military Trail Yurt · ~2.9 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTrout Creek Guard Station · ~3.7 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDeep Creek · ~3.9 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMoose Pond Scenic Byway · ~4.2 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Red Springs Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Center Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.7 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 15.4% — steep. 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 Red Springs Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Red Springs Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Deep Creek~3.9 mi · fee
- North Fork Camping Area~4.3 mi
- Windy Park Camping Area~4.6 mi
- Oaks Park~6.1 mi
The unit that manages Red Springs Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Red Springs Campground 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 Trout Creek at 9,440 ft, about 5 miles away. It sits about 1,037 ft lower 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 Springs 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
no road or trail found nearby — check manually
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 Red Springs 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.
- 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 Springs Campground
Camping at altitude →When the high country opens →Finding water out here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →