Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Washington Lake Group
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 40.67352, -110.95999
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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 — Washington Lake Group · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 80047 (Washington Lake Group Area), 0 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 80047 (Washington Lake Group Area), 0 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 80047 (Washington Lake Group Area): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 Washington Lake Group
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 9,933 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Washington Lake GroupNIFC · 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 Washington Lake Group · 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
- WWater1 mi
- ShShower5 mi
- DDump8 mi
- FFuel17 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- @Mail17 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- RxPharmacy27 mi
- EVEV fast charger28 mi
- PPropane44 mi
- AAir-up45 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 17 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 — Washington Lake Group
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
9,933 ft
Ground slope
3.5% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
40.67352, -110.95999
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Washington Lake Group · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWashington Lake · ~0.3 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townSamak · ~14.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~1.4 mi
- FuelKamas Valley Co-Op · ~16.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~8.0 mi
- GroceriesChevron · ~16.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~26.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicWasatch County Family Clinic · ~26.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~17.2 mi
EV charging — from Washington Lake Group · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger28.4 mi straight-line NW — RMP Coalville (Coalville, UT) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 68 within 50 · 145 within 100 · 170 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)28.7 mi — Park City, UT, Park City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO28.5 mi — SUMMIT COUNTY COALVILLE QC, Coalville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.9 mi — Kamas City Office · VIALYNK · 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 417007 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Washington Lake Group · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletWashington Lake Group · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTrial Lake · ~0.4 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWashington Lake · ~0.5 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLilly Lake · ~1.2 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Washington Lake Group · Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Washington Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.3 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 3.5% — 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 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 Washington Lake Group elsewhere
Other camps near Washington Lake Group
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Trial Lake~0.4 mi · fee
- Washington Lake~0.5 mi · fee
- Lilly Lake~1.2 mi · fee
- Lost Creek~1.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Washington Lake Group
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Washington Lake Group 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 Trial Lake at 9,970 ft, less than a mile away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Washington Lake Group
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
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 Washington Lake Group
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 — Washington Lake Group
Camping at altitude →When the high country opens →Camping near a reservoir →Picking a spot →All field notes →