Free Camp Guide
Aerial view of Fossil Mountain

Utah Bureau of Land Management

Fossil Mountain

Camping fee unknownSet campsite
Camping fee not confirmed Nobody has written down what it costs to camp here, so we can’t tell you. It might be free. It might not. We read through the Bureau of Land Management’s records in August 2026 and found nothing either way. Watch for a sign when you pull in, or ask them before you set off.

About this place

The Fish Creek Range is a tilted fault block of sedimentary rock. It is rock country. Bedding plane faults show across more than 28,000 acres in the middle of the study area.

Bald eagles, peregrine falcons and golden eagles all hunt here.

The ferruginous hawk, the long-billed curlew and the kit fox may be here too. All three are sensitive species.

The facts

Cost
Camping fee not confirmed
Type
Specific campsite
Managed by
Bureau of Land Management

Getting there

From Delta, drive southwest on US Highway 6/50 for about 51 miles, to the road heading south through Blind Valley. Follow that road southwest and then south for 12.5 miles, to a spur running southwest to the north side of Fossil Mountain. You can see the mountain clearly from the turnoff. The spur leads into a wash that marks the northern edge of it. Drive to the end of the spur, then look for fossils in the wash and on the mountainside.

Coordinates 38.876058, -113.469248

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What is near here

This is a good base for somewhere people travel a long way to see.

Every distance on this page is the driving distance. A short distance can still take a long time. The road may be closed for the season, covered in snow, or washed out. Many of these roads are dirt. Plan your route before you leave home. Out here there is often no phone signal to look it up on the way.

Nearest town and supplies

Milford is big enough that you’d normally expect fuel and somewhere to buy food. Nobody from here has been to check, so don’t count on it if you’re running low.

Have you been here?

Fees and access change, and the records do not always keep up. If you have been, tell us what you found.

Add road notes for this site

The thing we cannot get from any government record is what the drive in is actually like. If you have done it, this is the most useful thing you can leave behind. We read everything before it appears, and we print a first name with it if you give one.

Where this information comes from

The description on this page is ours. The facts in it, and the fee and facility details below it, come from the Bureau of Land Management’s own records, read in August 2026.