Agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirmRoad season: open (MVUM)
Spirit Lake Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.83802, -110.00242
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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 — Spirit Lake Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 10001 (Spirit Lake), 230 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 10001 (Spirit Lake), 230 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 10001 (Spirit Lake): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 Spirit Lake Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 10,201 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Spirit Lake 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 Spirit Lake 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
- WWater14 mi
- FFuel18 mi
- GGrocery18 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- DDump22 mi
- @Mail28 mi
- ShShower28 mi
- LLaundry32 mi
- +Urgent care35 mi
- RxPharmacy35 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- MMechanic36 mi
- EVEV fast charger36 mi
- OOutfitter36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 18 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 36-mi run (and back).
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 — Spirit Lake Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
10,201 ft
Ground slope
5.6% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
40.83802, -110.00242
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Spirit Lake Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMiddle Fork Sheep Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Spirit Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townBurntfork · ~13.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~17.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~22.2 mi
- GroceriesFlaming Gorge Market · ~18.0 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~18.0 mi
EV charging — from Spirit Lake Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger35.9 mi straight-line SE — Vernal, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 78 within 100 · 188 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS36.2 mi — RMP Vernal (Vernal, UT), Vernal
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.7 mi — TriCounty Health Dep, Vernal
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)36.5 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, 35.7 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 334568 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Spirit Lake Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSpirit Lake · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletChepeta Day Use · ~3.5 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletChepeta Lake Trailhead · ~4.1 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHoop Lake · ~8.0 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Spirit Lake Campground · Ashley National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Middle Fork Sheep Creek as a perennial stream, under 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 5.6% — 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 Spirit Lake Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Spirit Lake Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Long Park Boat Launch Area~8.2 mi
- Hoop Lake~8.6 mi · fee
- Browne Lake Campground~9.9 mi
- Pole Creek Lake~11.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Spirit Lake Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Spirit Lake 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 Spirit Lk at 10,240 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 — Spirit Lake 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)
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 Spirit Lake 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 — Spirit Lake Campground
Camping at altitude →When the high country opens →Camping near a reservoir →Reading your camp page →All field notes →