Free Camp Guide
Aerial view of Uinta Flat Designated Dispersed Camping Area

Utah Dixie National Forest

Uinta Flat Designated Dispersed Camping Area

Free to campSet campsite16-day limitSome roads are rough
Free to camp The Forest Service record for this site says there is no charge to camp, as of August 2026. Records get old, so look for a sign when you pull in.

About this place

Uinta Flat sits along forest road 064, just off UT-14 near Duck Creek, among aspen and ponderosa pine. Dirt roads wind through it, and the side roads get rutted, so take them slowly.

Be ready for ATVs. They're the one thing reviewers keep mentioning, at weekends especially, and sometimes after dark.

The limit here is 16 days in one spot.

The facts

Cost
Free to camp
Roads around it
Some need high clearance
Stay limit
16 days
Type
Open area. Nothing is marked out
Managed by
Dixie National Forest

The roads around this place are not maintained for a regular car. That comes from the US Forest Service, who grade every road by the kind of vehicle it is looked after for. Those records cover the roads nearby. They do not cover the last stretch in to the campsite, and nobody has checked that part. Treat this as a warning. We are not promising what you will find when you get there. If you have driven it, tell us what it was like and we will say so here.

Getting there

Coordinates 37.510000, -112.618000

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What is near here

There is another spot of ours within reach, and some better-known places further out.

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

Panguitch 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.

Why the drive to town is usually twice what the map says — what we found measuring every campsite in this guide.

When it’s time to move on

You can camp here for 16 days. After that you have to move on. This is Forest Service land, and each forest sets its own rule for how far you have to go, so check before you travel.

The nearest other free campsite in this guide is Coral Pink Sand Dunes, Utah — 31 miles in a straight line, but a 44 mile drive. Five more sit closer than 25 miles, if the rule here allows them.

This guide covers five states and does not list every free campsite, so there may be something closer that we do not hold. Check this site’s own rule before you rely on it.

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 Forest Service’s own records, read in August 2026.