American Adventurer
Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree

Sand Flats Recreation Area

Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 38.57563, -109.52401
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
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
USGS topographic map of Sand Flats Recreation Area
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Aerial image of Sand Flats Recreation Area
XFacebookReddit
Weather outlook — at Sand Flats Recreation Area
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,632 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Sand Flats Recreation AreaNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Flats Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT

15 MI30 MI60 MIYOUR CAMPN ↑Water · 1 miWDump · 2 miDExxon · Fuel · 1 miFDave's Corner Market · Grocery · 1 miGPharmacy · 2 miRxStandard Plumbing Supply Company · Hardware · 2 miHSouthtown Auto repair and sales · Mechanic · 2 miMWet Spot Laundry · Laundry · 2 miLShower · 3 miShAir-up · 1 miAGreen River Medical Center · Urgent care · 45 mi+Amasazi Desert Gear & Clothing · Outfitter · 2 miOMoab Post Office · Mail · 1 mi@Moab, UT - Tesla Supercharger · EV fast charger · 2 miEV
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
  • WWater1 mi
  • GGrocery1 mi
  • FFuel1 mi
  • AAir-up1 mi
  • @Mail1 mi
  • RxPharmacy2 mi
  • HHardware2 mi
  • LLaundry2 mi
  • OOutfitter2 mi
  • EVEV fast charger2 mi
  • DDump2 mi
  • MMechanic2 mi
  • ShShower3 mi
  • +Urgent care45 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water

The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 1 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 Flats Recreation Area

Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
4,632 ft
State
UT
Coordinates
38.57563, -109.52401
Cost
Free

Nearby & resupply — around Sand Flats Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)

  • Water featureAbyss Canyon (stream) · nearby
  • Nearest townMoab · ~1.2 mi
  • Drinking waterDrinking water · ~1.0 mi
  • FuelE's Market Fuel · ~23.5 mi
  • Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
  • Dump station~1.6 mi
  • GroceriesDave's Corner Market · ~1.1 mi
  • PharmacyPharmacy · ~1.5 mi
  • Hospital / clinicMoab Regional Hospital · ~1.9 mi
  • HardwareStandard Plumbing Supply Company · ~1.5 mi

EV charging — from Sand Flats Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)

Nearby restrooms — around Sand Flats Recreation Area · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

Open Sand Flats Recreation Area elsewhere

Google satellite →Gaia GPS →CalTopo →Back to the map →

Other camps near Sand Flats Recreation Area

If this one is full, gated or washed out.

Snow, and when this opens

The nearest automatic snow station is Lasal Mountain-Lower at 8,780 ft, about 14 miles away. It sits about 4,148 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.

Lasal Mountain-Lower snowpack, from NRCS →

How we know this — Sand Flats 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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Sand Flats 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.

Before you go — Sand Flats Recreation Area

Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →
Been here? Tell us what changed. This page is built from public records, so the fastest way it gets better is somebody who has actually pulled in. Road washed out, site gone, gate locked, or it is exactly as described — all of it useful. Send a report →