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Ridgecrest Field Office

15 camps mapped · 3 free · 12 unpriced · tap a dot for its page
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camp (tap to open) townno boundary drawn — a field office is an administrative area, not the land you can camp on

Camp here — Ridgecrest Field Office

15 camps mapped in this field office, 3 of them free. Tap one for its topo and aerial, the weather, the water, and how far you will be from fuel and a shower.

  1. FreeTeagle Wash OHV Staging AreaTeagle Wash (stream) · 5 mi from Searles
  2. FreeWagon Wheel Off Highway Vehicle Staging Area6 mi from Spangler
  3. FreeJawbone Canyon Ohv Area15 mi from California
  4. UnpricedBright Star WildernessKelso Creek (stream) · 2 mi from Sageland
  5. UnpricedCoso Range Wilderness9 mi from Olancha
  6. UnpricedDarwin Falls Wilderness4 mi from Darwin
  7. UnpricedKiavah Wilderness12 mi from Inyokern
  8. UnpricedGolden Valley Wilderness8 mi from Red Mountain
See all 15 on the live map →

Where the camps cluster

Where these came from

Every camp here sits inside this field office's boundary on the Bureau of Land Management's own administrative unit layer, tested point by point against that polygon. The camps themselves come from public agency records.

BLM’s own page for the Ridgecrest Field Office →

There is no field guide to this field office yet — we write those from sources we can cite, and we have not done this one. The map, the camps and the costs are ready now.

These camps come from federal agency records, not from a visit — except where a camp page says otherwise. No boundary is drawn on the map on purpose: a BLM field office is an administrative area that also covers a great deal of private, state and tribal land, so an outline would suggest you can camp anywhere inside it. The dots are the camps. Permits, seasons and fire rules change: confirm with the managing office before you go. Found a fee where we show free? Tell us on the contact page.