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Agua Fria National Monument
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 34.23350, -112.09890
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Agua Fria National Monument
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at the elevation shown above.
Fire & smoke — around Agua Fria National MonumentNIFC · AirNow
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Active wildfires from NIFC (within ~50 mi); air quality from AirNow. Always confirm current fire restrictions with the managing office before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Agua Fria National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater4 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- +Urgent care14 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- LLaundry27 mi
- ShShower28 mi
- DDump28 mi
- OOutfitter29 mi
- AAir-up32 mi
- PPropane37 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 6 mi out.
One dot per need — the nearest of each kind, straight-line from camp. Places from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors); the EV fast charger from the US DOE station locator. Open in Google Maps ↗
The site — Agua Fria National Monument
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Ground slope
4% · gentle
Nearest highway
~0.7 mi · Interstate 17
State
AZ
Coordinates
34.23350, -112.09890
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Agua Fria National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBadger Spring Wash · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townBumble Bee · ~3.8 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~0.7 mi · Interstate 17
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~3.8 mi
- FuelChevron · ~6.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~28.4 mi
- GroceriesJames P Cleator General Store · ~8.3 mi
- PharmacyDewey Pharmacy · ~23.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicQuad City Medical Associate, LLC · ~22.6 mi
- HardwareCrown King General Store · ~13.8 mi
EV charging — from Agua Fria National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.6 mi straight-line N — Cordes Lakes, AZ - Tesla Supercharger, Mayer, AZ (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 50 within 50 · 131 within 100 · 174 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS25.3 mi — Walmart 5329 (Anthem, AZ), Anthem
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO25.3 mi — Walmart 5329 (Anthem, AZ), Anthem
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)22.1 mi — LP Steel, Dewey, AZ (at an office building) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-11-06 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast chargernot listed
- Power (kW)not listed by AFDC — “DC fast” spans roughly 24 to 350 kW, so ask the network.
- Read this honestlyStraight-line miles, like every distance on this site. Roads run longer than this, and you have to get back. We know where a charger is listed. We don’t know if it works today, how fast it is, or the road miles. Check the network before you commit.
Snapshot 2026-09-16 · AFDC record 101986 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Agua Fria National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBadger Springs Recreation · ~0.3 mi SW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletSilver Creek Recreation · ~2.5 mi E · BLM
- Highway rest areaSunset Point (SB/NB Both) · ~3.9 mi SW
- Vault / pit toiletHazlett Hollow Campground · ~11.5 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Agua Fria National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Badger Spring Wash as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 4% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (1 m data here), sampled every 10 metres around the point. That is the hillside, not the ground under your wheels — a graded pullout or a bench a few metres across is too small to show up at that spacing, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No rail line is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 17 is mapped ~0.7 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- Power: Dave carries his own — batteries or solar. A generator will run your rig and it is also the thing everybody camped near you can hear.
- Getting online: Dave recommends Starlink. He has had it since SpaceX introduced it, used it for four years living on the road, and it delivers as promised — several hundred nights out, and he can count on one hand the places he could not connect. The cable on his unit runs 150 feet, which is usually all it takes to find enough sky. Starlink → Referral link — Starlink pays Dave $100 in cash if you sign up through it, and that money funds this site and the next trip. It costs you nothing and does not change the recommendation.
Open Agua Fria National Monument elsewhere
Other camps near Agua Fria National Monument
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- BLM dispersed camp #12 — Yavapai County, AZ~2.2 mi
- BLM dispersed camp #11 — Yavapai County, AZ~2.3 mi
- BLM dispersed camp #14 — Yavapai County, AZ~2.4 mi
- BLM dispersed camp #10 — Yavapai County, AZ~2.4 mi
The unit that manages Agua Fria National Monument
Agua Fria National Monument is in the Hassayampa Field Office, Phoenix District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Agua Fria National Monument
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Likely — The record is good enough to put a pin on, but thin in places. Treat the details as a starting point, not gospel.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
EV chargers
US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center station locator, snapshot 2026-09-16. Straight-line miles to the nearest public, open, unrestricted station; restricted and planned units are shown but never counted.
Field check
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Agua Fria National Monument
A land record can put you within a few meters of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- Current fire restrictions
- Whether any water here is drinkable
- Shade & wind exposure
- Noise and who else shows up
- Whether a listed EV charger works today, or the road miles to it
Before you go — Agua Fria National Monument
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →