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Westwater Canyon River
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · UT · 39.08638, -109.10142
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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 Westwater Canyon River
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,322 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Westwater Canyon RiverNIFC · 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 Westwater Canyon River · Bureau of Land Management · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel17 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- @Mail17 mi
- WWater20 mi
- HHardware20 mi
- EVEV fast charger20 mi
- DDump20 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- OOutfitter27 mi
- ShShower42 mi
- AAir-up43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 17 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 — Westwater Canyon River
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
4,322 ft
Ground slope
1.3% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.3 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~4.4 mi · US Hwy 6
State
UT
Coordinates
39.08638, -109.10142
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Westwater Canyon River · Bureau of Land Management · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureColorado River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townWestwater · ~0.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.3 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~4.4 mi · US Hwy 6
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.0 mi
- FuelLove's · ~24.5 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas · ~24.9 mi
- Dump station~20.1 mi
- GroceriesAlta Convenience · ~20.0 mi
- PharmacyCity Market · ~26.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicFamily Health West Hospital · ~20.2 mi
EV charging — from Westwater Canyon River · Bureau of Land Management · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger20.0 mi straight-line E — Fruita, CO Rechargery Relay - Kokopelli Blvd · IONNA · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 10 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach6 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 63 within 100 · 112 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO20.5 mi — FRCIVICCENTER CPE 250 #1, Fruita
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.1 mi — Highline Lake State Park, Loma, CO (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · 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 420787 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Westwater Canyon River · Bureau of Land Management · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBitter Creek Toilet Structure · ~4.9 mi N · BLM
- RestroomBitter Creek Toilet (Single) · ~5.0 mi N · BLM
- RestroomKnowles Canyon Overlook Restroom West · ~5.1 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomKnowles Canyon Overlook Restroom East · ~5.3 mi NE · BLM
Coming out here — Westwater Canyon River · Bureau of Land Management · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Colorado 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 1.3% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~0.3 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.
- US Hwy 6 is mapped ~4.4 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 Westwater Canyon River elsewhere
Other camps near Westwater Canyon River
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Westwater Canyon~0.2 mi
- May Flats~3.7 mi
- Knowles~5.4 mi
- Black Rocks 9~6.6 mi
The unit that manages Westwater Canyon River
Westwater Canyon River is in the Moab Field Office, Canyon Country 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 — Westwater Canyon River
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 is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Westwater Canyon River
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 — Westwater Canyon River
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →How to read this page →All field notes →