Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · UT · 37.77300, -112.74900
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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 — Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · Dixie National Forest · UT
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 33023 (Local), 370 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles. The record carries no surface type for it.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 33023 (Local), 370 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 33023 (Local): “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 Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,237 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping AreaNIFC · 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 Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · Dixie National Forest · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- +Urgent care6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- MMechanic7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- WWater11 mi
- DDump17 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- RxPharmacy18 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- ShShower19 mi
- AAir-up20 mi
- PPropane33 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
8,237 ft
Ground slope
16.4% · steep
Nearest highway
~7.3 mi · Interstate 15
State
UT
Coordinates
37.77300, -112.74900
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · Dixie National Forest · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBowery Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townParowan · ~6.4 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~7.3 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMaverik #231 · ~6.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~17.1 mi
- GroceriesParowan Market · ~6.8 mi
- PharmacyPanguitch Drug Co · ~17.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicCedar Valley Medical Clinic · ~17.5 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~18.7 mi
EV charging — from Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · Dixie National Forest · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger17.9 mi straight-line W — Cedar City Motor Company - DCFC · Blink Network · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 13 within 50 · 35 within 100 · 47 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.4 mi — Cedar City, UT - South Main Street - Tesla Supercharger, Cedar City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO20.2 mi — Walmart 1438 (Cedar City, UT), Cedar City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.5 mi — Two Sunsets Hotel - Tesla Destination, Panguitch, UT · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 6 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — The Grand Lodge at Brian Head - Tesla Destination, Brian Head, 7.3 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 387332 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · Dixie National Forest · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomYankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toilet5 Mile Picnic Site · ~2.8 mi NW · USFS
- RestroomBear Flat/Marathon Trailhead · ~6.4 mi E · USFS
- Flush restroomPanguitch Lake North · ~7.1 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area · Dixie National Forest · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Bowery Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 16.4% — steep. 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~7.3 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 Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area elsewhere
Other camps near Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Yankee Meadow Campground~0.8 mi · fee
- Yankee Meadow Campground~1.1 mi
- Panguitch Lake North Campground~7.0 mi · fee
- Panguitch Lake South Campground~7.1 mi
The unit that manages Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area are set by Dixie National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Yankee Reservoir at 8,680 ft, about 2 miles away. It sits about 443 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 — Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
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 — Yankee Designated Dispersed Camping Area
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Camping with a dog →All field notes →