Hewinta Guard Station

About

Hewinta Guard Station is an administrative facility of the USFS Evanston-Mountain View Ranger District, situated at approximately 9,505 feet elevation in Summit County, Utah, within the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. The station is located near the Bear River-Smiths Fork Trail corridor in the remote High Uintas backcountry. Historically, the main telephone line from Whitney Guard Station to Hewinta Guard Station followed the Bear River-Smiths Fork Trail route. Today the facility is used periodically by Forest Service field crews as a base camp for projects in the surrounding wilderness area, including fish population management work in the West Fork Smiths Fork drainage. This is an administrative guard station, not a public rental cabin. The property is not listed on Recreation.gov and is not available for overnight camping or cabin rental by the public. Visitors seeking cabin accommodations in the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest should consider the Mirror Lake Guard Station, Payson Lakes Guard Station, or the district's yurt rentals at Bear Claw, East Fork, Lily Lake, Ridge, or Boundary Creek.

Directions

From Robertson, Wyoming, head south on State Highway 150 for approximately 20 miles. Turn left onto Forest Service Road 058 and continue for about 5 miles to reach the Hewinta Guard Station.