Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · UT · 38.43711, -109.42632
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. 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 Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,295 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Yellow Circle Road Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping · public land · UT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- MMechanic7 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- DDump10 mi
- WWater11 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- OOutfitter11 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- AAir-up12 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- +Urgent care54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,295 ft
Ground slope
3.1% · gentle
State
UT
Coordinates
38.43711, -109.42632
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping · public land · UT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePack Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townMoab · ~11.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelE's Market Fuel · ~12.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~10.5 mi
- GroceriesStu Mart · ~10.8 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~11.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicMoab Regional Hospital · ~11.9 mi
- HardwareStandard Plumbing Supply Company · ~10.2 mi
EV charging — from Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping · public land · UT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.6 mi straight-line NW — Moab, UT - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 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 reach3 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 46 within 100 · 108 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS12.5 mi — Moab, UT - North Main Street - Tesla Supercharger, Moab
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO39.5 mi — STATE OF UTAH WELCOME WEST 2, Monticello
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.7 mi — Field Station Moab - Tesla Destination · 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 — Homewood Suites by Hilton Moab - Tesla Destination, Moab, 11.7 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
Level 2, restricted access — Gonzo Inn, Moab, 11.5 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only; see front desk for access · 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 102459 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping · public land · UT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomKens Lake Toilet (C Loop Camping Area Site 43) · ~2.7 mi N · BLM
- RestroomKens Lake Toilet (Camping Area Site 23) · ~2.8 mi N · BLM
- RestroomKens Lake Toilet (C Loop Group Site B) · ~2.8 mi N · BLM
- RestroomKens Lake Toilet (Camping Area Site 15) · ~2.8 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping · public land · UT
- Surface water mapped nearby: Pack Creek (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- 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.
- 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 Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — San Juan County, UT (38.4220, -109.4486)~1.6 mi
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — San Juan County, UT (38.4165, -109.4665)~2.6 mi
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — San Juan County, UT (38.3287, -109.4191)~7.5 mi
- Oowah Campground~9.5 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Moab 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.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Lasal Mountain-Lower at 8,780 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 3,485 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 — Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Yellow Circle Road Dispersed Camping
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