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Upper Box Creek Trailhead

Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 38.47805, -112.00299
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
USGS topographic map of Upper Box Creek Trailhead
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Aerial image of Upper Box Creek Trailhead
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Weather outlook — at Upper Box Creek Trailhead
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at the elevation shown above.
Fire & smoke — around Upper Box Creek TrailheadNIFC · 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 Upper Box Creek Trailhead · Fishlake National Forest · UT

15 MI30 MI60 MIYOUR CAMPN ↑Water · 20 miWDump · 15 miDSinclair · Propane · 56 miPGrass Valley Mercantile · Fuel · 7 miFGrocery · 7 miGPharmacy · 13 miRxThe Home Depot · Hardware · 19 miHMike's Auto Clinic · Mechanic · 20 miMLaundry · 17 miLShower · 22 miShAir-up · 27 miAIntermountain Healthcare · Urgent care · 13 mi+Utah Canyon Outdoors · Outfitter · 53 miOMarysvale Post Office · Mail · 12 mi@Walmart 5168 (Richfield, UT) · EV fast charger · 19 miEV
Straight-line miles · bearings approx · roads run longer
Nearest of each
  • FFuel7 mi
  • GGrocery7 mi
  • @Mail12 mi
  • +Urgent care13 mi
  • RxPharmacy13 mi
  • DDump15 mi
  • LLaundry17 mi
  • EVEV fast charger19 mi
  • HHardware19 mi
  • MMechanic20 mi
  • WWater20 mi
  • ShShower22 mi
  • AAir-up27 mi
  • OOutfitter53 mi
  • PPropane56 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 — Upper Box Creek Trailhead

Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
State
UT
Coordinates
38.47805, -112.00299
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source

Nearby & resupply — around Upper Box Creek Trailhead · Fishlake National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)

  • Water featureUpper Box Creek Reservoir (water) · nearby
  • Nearest townGreenwich · ~5.4 mi
  • Drinking waternone within 10 mi
  • FuelGrass Valley Mercantile · ~6.9 mi
  • Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
  • Dump station~14.6 mi
  • GroceriesStore · ~6.9 mi
  • PharmacyPharmacy · ~13.0 mi
  • Hospital / clinicIntermountain Healthcare · ~12.7 mi
  • HardwareAce Hardware · ~19.4 mi

EV charging — from Upper Box Creek Trailhead · Fishlake National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)

Nearby restrooms — around Upper Box Creek Trailhead · Fishlake National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

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Other camps near Upper Box Creek Trailhead

If this one is full, gated or washed out.

The unit that manages Upper Box Creek Trailhead

Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Upper Box Creek Trailhead are set by Fishlake National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.

Snow, and when this opens

The nearest automatic snow station is Box Springs at 9,230 ft, about a mile away. 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 — Upper Box Creek Trailhead

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)
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 Upper Box Creek Trailhead

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 — Upper Box Creek Trailhead

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