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Wasatch County
Drive-up · public land · Wasatch County, UT · 39.96831, -111.10761
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Really nice primitive campsite with fire ring in mountains of northern Utah, south of Strawberry Reservoir. Very secluded along a seldom-used forest road. Lush rolling hills, mountains, pine trees, and aspens. Enough room for two or three vehicles. No cell service. Nice spot! Strongly recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 23 May 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Wasatch County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,832 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Wasatch CountyNIFC · 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 Wasatch County · 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
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- WWater11 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- DDump13 mi
- @Mail24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- PPropane28 mi
- EVEV fast charger29 mi
- MMechanic30 mi
- HHardware30 mi
- LLaundry30 mi
- AAir-up30 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 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 — Wasatch County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
7,832 ft
Ground slope
3.1% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~2.5 mi · main line
County
Wasatch County, UT
Coordinates
39.96831, -111.10761
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Wasatch County · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLeft Fork White River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townScofield · ~17.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~2.5 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSoldier Summit Station · ~3.1 mi
- Propane / LPGHoliday Oil · ~28.2 mi
- Dump station~13.2 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~3.1 mi
- PharmacyMaple Mountain Pharmacy · ~28.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicHelper Clinic · ~23.8 mi
- HardwareSunroc · ~29.7 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Highly recommended
EV charging — from Wasatch County · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger29.3 mi straight-line SE — Price, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 37 within 50 · 144 within 100 · 192 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS30.0 mi — PRICE CITY LEVEL 3 NORTH, Price
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.0 mi — PRICE CITY LEVEL 3 NORTH, Price
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.9 mi — STATE OF UTAH TIE FORK REST 2, Spanish Fork, UT · 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 102461 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Wasatch County · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletUnicorn Ridge · ~10.2 mi NW · USFS
- Flush restroomRenegade · ~10.9 mi N · USFS
- RestroomScoField State Park Recreation Management Area Restroom- Restroom Building · ~11.2 mi S · BoR
- Flush restroomAspen Grove · ~11.5 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Wasatch County · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Left Fork White River as a perennial river, ~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 3.1% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~2.5 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Wasatch County elsewhere
Other camps near Wasatch County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Jackson Camping Area~8.4 mi
- Unicorn Ridge Dispersed Campground~10.1 mi
- Renegade~10.9 mi · fee
- Aspen Grove~11.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Wasatch County
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Wasatch County 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 White River #1 at 8,620 ft, about 6 miles away. It sits about 788 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 — Wasatch County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Wasatch County, UT). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 23 May 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Wasatch County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — Wasatch County
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