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Wayne County
Drive-up · public land · Wayne County, UT · 38.31121, -111.08322
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Ask about this camp →Dave's been here. A spot from Dave's own travels on public land — free to camp. Conditions still change, so confirm access, stay limits and fire rules before you go.
Nice! This is a primitive flat spot atop a ridge. Not a proper campsite, but a lovely place to camp. Amazing views to the east and west. Four-wheel drive required. Very technical road, will make you work for it. Some cell service. Enough room for one, maybe two vehicles if you park close. Recommended just for the experience.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 24 October 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 Wayne County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,219 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Wayne CountyNIFC · 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 Wayne County · public land · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater9 mi
- DDump9 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- AAir-up25 mi
- MMechanic25 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- HHardware31 mi
- EVEV fast charger36 mi
- OOutfitter47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 16 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 36-mi run (and back).
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 — Wayne County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,219 ft
Ground slope
6.2% · gentle
County
Wayne County, UT
Coordinates
38.31121, -111.08322
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Wayne County · public land · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.0 mi
- FuelPetroUS · ~16.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~9.1 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~17.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicWayne Community Health Center & Pharmacy · ~25.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
Had a signal
Getting there
High clearance / 4×4
Fire ring
No
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Wayne County · public land · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger35.6 mi straight-line NW — RMP Ivie Creek (Salina, 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 · 1 within 50 · 38 within 100 · 96 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)62.9 mi — Richfield, UT - West 1250 South - Tesla Supercharger, Richfield
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO59.7 mi — Love's 581 (Salina, UT), Salina
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.2 mi — BROKEN SPUR STATION 2, Torrey, 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 387120 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Wayne County · public land · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFD Vault Toilet East Entrance · ~3.1 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomFD Vault Toilet Grand Wash B74 · ~7.9 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomFD Vault Toilet Hickman Bridge · ~8.0 mi W · NPS
- RestroomFD Vault Toilet Capitol Gorge (second) B35 · ~8.4 mi SW · NPS
Coming out here — Wayne County · public land · UT
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 6.2% — 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.
- 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 Wayne County elsewhere
Other camps near Wayne County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- BLM public land~11.5 mi
- Sevier River~12.5 mi
- Fremont River Cua Dispersed~13.0 mi
- Sheets Gulch~13.6 mi
Who holds the land at Wayne County
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Richfield Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Wayne 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 (Wayne 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 24 October 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Wayne 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 — Wayne County
Stay limits →Your first dispersed night →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →All field notes →