Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Spring Canyon Camp
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.59510, -111.00088
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Spring Canyon Camp · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 80041 (Spring Can. - Trial Lake), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as improved native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 80041 (Spring Can. - Trial Lake), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 80041 (Spring Can. - Trial 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 Spring Canyon Camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,228 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Spring Canyon 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 Spring Canyon Camp · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump3 mi
- WWater7 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- @Mail15 mi
- GGrocery15 mi
- MMechanic15 mi
- FFuel15 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- EVEV fast charger27 mi
- AAir-up40 mi
- PPropane43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 15 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 — Spring Canyon Camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
8,228 ft
Ground slope
27.7% · steep
State
UT
Coordinates
40.59510, -111.00088
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Spring Canyon Camp · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureProvo River · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townWoodland · ~12.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~6.9 mi
- FuelExxon · ~15.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.7 mi
- GroceriesJoe's Country Store · ~14.7 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~22.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicWasatch County Family Clinic · ~22.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~15.2 mi
EV charging — from Spring Canyon Camp · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger27.0 mi straight-line W — Park City, UT (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 · 85 within 50 · 147 within 100 · 170 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.5 mi — SUMMIT COUNTY COALVILLE QC, Coalville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.1 mi — SUMMIT COUNTY KAMAS 1 · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- 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 452387 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Spring Canyon Camp · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletShady Dell · ~0.9 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCobblerest Campground · ~1.3 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSoapstone · ~1.8 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWashington Lake Group · ~5.8 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Spring Canyon Camp · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Provo River as a perennial river, ~0.2 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 27.7% — 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.
- 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 Spring Canyon Camp elsewhere
Other camps near Spring Canyon Camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Duchesne Tunnel Camp~0.2 mi · fee
- Shady Dell~0.9 mi · fee
- Cobblerest Campground~1.3 mi · fee
- Soapstone~1.8 mi · fee
The unit that manages Spring Canyon Camp
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Spring Canyon Camp are set by Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Beaver Divide at 8,230 ft, about 5 miles 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 — Spring Canyon Camp
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-24: no rate published by the agency. The Forest Service's own recreation-site record for this camping area carries a fee flag with an empty fee description, the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache forest has no page for it (/recreation/spring-canyon-camp returns 404 and the name is absent from the forest's 111-entry Camping & Cabins index), and recreation.gov has no listing within 25 miles. Expect to pay at a kiosk and carry cash. Checked https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=objectid%3D2566141&outFields=site_name,fee_description&f=json , https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/uinta-wasatch-cache/recreation/camping-cabins and recreation.gov search.
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 Spring Canyon 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.
- 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 — Spring Canyon Camp
When the high country opens →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading your camp page →All field notes →