Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Sand Cove Primitive Camp
Drive-up · public land · UT · 37.20580, -113.33152
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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 — Sand Cove Primitive Camp · public land · UT
- Basic site, no services
- Informal, undeveloped site
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 Sand Cove Primitive Camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,192 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Sand Cove Primitive CampNIFC · 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 Sand Cove Primitive Camp · public land · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- MMechanic2 mi
- +Urgent care2 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- HHardware3 mi
- LLaundry3 mi
- RxPharmacy3 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- DDump7 mi
- ShShower8 mi
- WWater9 mi
- AAir-up10 mi
- OOutfitter12 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Sand Cove Primitive Camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
3,192 ft
Ground slope
3.8% · gentle
Nearest highway
~2.8 mi · Interstate 15
State
UT
Coordinates
37.20580, -113.33152
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Sand Cove Primitive Camp · public land · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureVirgin River · ~0.5 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townLeeds · ~2.6 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~2.8 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.4 mi
- FuelExxon · ~2.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~6.7 mi
- GroceriesLin's Fresh Market · ~2.3 mi
- PharmacyDavis Drug Pharmacy · ~3.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicHurricane Valley Clinic · ~1.9 mi
- HardwarePeterbilt · ~11.5 mi
EV charging — from Sand Cove Primitive Camp · public land · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger5.3 mi straight-line N — 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 · 17 within 50 · 28 within 100 · 122 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS11.7 mi — Walmart 1439 (Washington, UT), Washington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.3 mi — EV EXPERIENCE FAST CHARGER1, St. George
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)2.0 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, 2.1 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 Sand Cove Primitive Camp · public land · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet Romtec Aspen · ~3.5 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletRed Cliffs Romtec Vault Toilet- East · ~4.3 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletRed Cliffs Romtec Vault Toilet - West · ~4.3 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCottonwood Romtec Vault Toilet · ~4.8 mi W · BLM
Coming out here — Sand Cove Primitive Camp · public land · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Virgin River as a perennial river, ~0.5 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 3.8% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 ~2.8 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 Sand Cove Primitive Camp elsewhere
Other camps near Sand Cove Primitive Camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Red Cliffs Recreation Area~4.2 mi · fee
- Quail Creek Reservoir Designated Dispersed Camping Area~4.4 mi
- Site 23~4.7 mi
- Site 25~4.7 mi
Who holds the land at Sand Cove Primitive Camp
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as St. George 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.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Gardner Peak at 8,320 ft, about 15 miles away. It sits about 5,128 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 — Sand Cove Primitive Camp
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 Sand Cove Primitive Camp
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