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Wapiti Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 41.60512, -111.58996
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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 — Wapiti Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
What the record says about the site — Wapiti Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Wapiti Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,463 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Wapiti CampgroundNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Wapiti Campground · 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
- WWater12 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- EVEV fast charger15 mi
- PPropane16 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- DDump21 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — Wapiti Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,463 ft
Ground slope
2.3% · flat
State
UT
Coordinates
41.60512, -111.58996
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Wapiti Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBlacksmith Fork · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Curtis Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townPine Bluffs Summer Home Area · ~11.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~5.6 mi
- FuelWalmart Fuel Center · ~14.7 mi
- Propane / LPGBarkers Propane · ~14.8 mi
- Dump station~20.8 mi
- GroceriesRidley's Family Market · ~12.7 mi
- PharmacyReed's Pharmacy · ~12.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicLiving Tree Urgent Care · ~14.4 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~12.8 mi
EV charging — from Wapiti Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.4 mi straight-line NW — ASPIRE Research Center, Logan, UT (at a research facility) · Non-Networked · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-11-13 · hours: 8am-5pm daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach9 within 25 mi · 37 within 50 · 138 within 100 · 179 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)16.6 mi — LW Miller Charger, Logan
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.0 mi — PROVIDENCE CITY ZOLLINGER PARK · 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 aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Utah State University - Life Sciences, Logan, 14.8 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; USU permit required
- Pricing at the fast chargerFree (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 428740 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Wapiti Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSpring Campground · ~5.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFriendship Campground · ~5.5 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPioneer Campground · ~5.6 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletShenoah · ~5.8 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Wapiti Campground · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Blacksmith Fork 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 2.3% — flat. 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 Wapiti Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Wapiti Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Spring Campground~5.1 mi · fee
- Friendship Campground~5.5 mi · fee
- Pioneer Campground~5.6 mi · fee
- Monte Cristo Campground~11.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Wapiti Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Wapiti Campground 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 Bug Lake at 7,980 ft, about 10 miles away. It sits about 2,517 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 — Wapiti 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)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Wapiti 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.
- 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 — Wapiti Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →