About this place
Yankee Meadows is a valley in the mountains above Parowan, near Yankee Meadows Reservoir. The camping spots are clearly marked, each with a stone fire pit, and some have the creek running right past.
The drive up is steep. Take it slowly, and if you tow, check your brakes before the long way down.
There's no drinking water. The nearest restrooms are not on site, but they are close. The stay limit is 16 days.
The facts
- Cost
- Free to camp
- Roads around it
- Not maintained for ordinary cars
- Stay limit
- 16 days
- Drinking water
- No, bring your own
- Toilet
- Yes
- Type
- Set campsites, marked with stone fire pits
- 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
From Interstate 15, take exit 75 onto UT-143 toward Parowan. After 2.9 miles, turn right to stay on UT-143. Go 3 miles, then turn left onto 1st Left Hand Road, also called Bowery Creek Road, and drive 4.9 miles to Yankee Meadows.
Coordinates 37.773000, -112.749000
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What is near here
A few more of our own spots are within reach of this one, along with some better-known places.
- Brian Head Directions
- Cedar Breaks National Monument Directions
- Spring Creek Canyon Wilderness Study Area Directions
- Beartrap Canyon Wilderness Directions
- Bryce Canyon National Park Directions
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
- Parowan, UT Directions
Parowan 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 Spring Creek Canyon Wilderness Study Area, Utah — 28 miles in a straight line, but a 40 mile drive. Two 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.
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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.
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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.