Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Twin Lake Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 39.11846, -111.60292
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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 — Twin Lake Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 51295 (Twin Lakes), 420 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 51295 (Twin Lakes), 420 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 51295 (Twin Lakes): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; 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 Twin Lake Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,189 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Twin 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 Twin Lake Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail6 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- WWater10 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- RxPharmacy18 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- DDump24 mi
- ShShower29 mi
- AAir-up42 mi
- PPropane54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Twin Lake Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,189 ft
Ground slope
5.6% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
39.11846, -111.60292
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Twin Lake Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTwin Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townMayfield · ~5.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSilver Eagle · ~7.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~24.3 mi
- GroceriesFood Shop · ~7.2 mi
- PharmacySalina Pharmacy · ~17.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicMain Street Family Clinic · ~10.4 mi
- HardwareJJWD Hardware · ~18.0 mi
EV charging — from Twin Lake Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.7 mi straight-line SW — Love's 581 (Salina, UT) · Electrify America · CHAdeMO, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 14 within 50 · 66 within 100 · 160 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)29.1 mi — Scipio, UT - Tesla Supercharger, Scipio
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)23.3 mi — 5 Main St, Emery, UT · CHARGELAB · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 163553 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Twin Lake Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletTwin Lake Th · ~0.3 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPinchot Lower Trailhead · ~0.6 mi SE · USFS
- RestroomBirch Creek Th · ~1.0 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTown Reservoir Fishing/Camping · ~1.2 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Twin Lake Campground · Manti-La Sal National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Twin Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 Twin Lake Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Twin Lake Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Spring Hill~3.0 mi
- Upper Six Mile Ponds Campground~5.9 mi
- Twelve Mile Flat Campground~6.2 mi · fee
- Ferron Reservoir Campground~8.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Twin Lake Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Twin Lake Campground are set by Manti-La Sal National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Beaver Dams at 7,980 ft, about 3 miles away. It sits about 791 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 — Twin 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) | Fee 2026-09-29: $10 per night, single site; $30 per night for the group site. Three agency channels agree -- the Manti-La Sal page, the Forest Service recreation-site record and recreation.gov's 2026 season (2026-05-08 to 2026-09-20; the forest page says the season runs to September 30). No water at this campground. Sources: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233385 , https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/manti-lasal/recreation/twin-lake-campground (last updated June 26, 2025) and https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=site_name%3D%27TWIN%20LAKE%20CAMPGROUND%27%20AND%20latitude%20%3E%2039.11%20AND%20latitude%20%3C%2039.13&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=json.
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 Twin 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 — Twin Lake Campground
Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →How to read this page →All field notes →