Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFee
Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 36.95112, -113.79346
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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
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,262 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)NIFC · 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 Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- WWater14 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
- +Urgent care15 mi
- AAir-up16 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- DDump18 mi
- ShShower38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,262 ft
Ground slope
5% · gentle
Nearest highway
~0.3 mi · Interstate 15
State
AZ
Coordinates
36.95112, -113.79346
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureVirgin River · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Cedar Pockets Wash (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townBeaver Dam · ~8.2 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~0.3 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~14.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~17.7 mi
- GroceriesBloomington Market · ~13.7 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~15.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicIntermountain Sunset Clinic Instacare · ~15.2 mi
- HardwarePeterson Industries · ~14.9 mi
EV charging — from Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.7 mi straight-line NE — Smith's - Tesla Supercharger, St. George, UT (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach13 within 25 mi · 15 within 50 · 85 within 100 · 123 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS13.6 mi — EV EXPERIENCE FAST CHARGE 2, St. George
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO13.6 mi — EV EXPERIENCE FAST CHARGE 2, St. George
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.0 mi — La Quinta Inn & Suites by Wyndham St. George - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.56 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 462300 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBuilding, Restroom 2, East Loop South - Virgin River · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomBuilding, Restroom 3, East Loop North - Virgin River · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomBuilding, Restroom 1, West Loop - Virgin River · ~0.2 mi W · BLM
- Highway rest areaSt. George (SB) · ~10.7 mi NE
Coming out here — Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Virgin 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 5% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~0.3 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) elsewhere
Other camps near Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Joshua Tree National Landmark~10.0 mi
- Sand Mountain Pipeline Designated Dispersed Camping Area~22.0 mi
The unit that manages Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P) is in the Arizona Strip Field Office, Arizona Strip District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
Fee note
$8 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 19 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10086109
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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field states a fee ("$8 per night fee ; $2 day use fee") (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | Fee 2026-09-19: $8 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/10086109/rates (worker_W via fee_backfill --rates, figure verified on that page).
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 Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
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.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Virgin River Canyon Recreation Area (P)
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →