Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Big Flat Cg-F
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.73931, -123.20341
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Big Flat Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 33N46 (Manzanita Ridge), 140 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 33N46 (Manzanita Ridge), 140 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 1 – Oct 30. That season ends after Oct 30.
MVUM record for FR 33N46 (Manzanita Ridge): “05/01-10/30” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Big Flat Cg-F
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,392 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Big Flat Cg-FNIFC · 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 Big Flat Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail3 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- WWater14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- AAir-up26 mi
- DDump33 mi
- PPropane43 mi
- RxPharmacy43 mi
- ShShower45 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — Big Flat Cg-F
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,392 ft
Ground slope
60.9% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
40.73931, -123.20341
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Big Flat Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTrinity River · ~0.2 mi · USGS: river, no flow class
- Nearest townJunction · ~6.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFrontier Fuel & Propane Minimart · ~12.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~12.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~12.8 mi
- HardwarePlotzke Ace Hardware · ~14.3 mi
EV charging — from Big Flat Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.5 mi straight-line E — Weaverville, CA - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 37 within 50 · 99 within 100 · 172 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS26.8 mi — Willow Creek Maintenance Station, Willow Creek
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO26.8 mi — Willow Creek Maintenance Station, Willow Creek
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)26.3 mi — RCEA EV NETWORK WILLOW CREEK · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · 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 206611 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Big Flat Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBig Flat Cg-F · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBig Flat River Access Parking · ~0.8 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSkunk Point Group Camp · ~1.6 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPigeon Point Boating · ~4.2 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Big Flat Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Trinity River as a river (no flow class in the record), ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 60.9% — steep. 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 and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on it.
- 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 Big Flat Cg-F elsewhere
Other camps near Big Flat Cg-F
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Skunk Point Group Camp~1.6 mi · fee
- Group Campsite~4.2 mi · fee
- Public camping area~4.2 mi
- North Fork Trinity~4.5 mi
The unit that manages Big Flat Cg-F
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Big Flat Cg-F are set by Shasta-Trinity National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Big Flat Cg-F
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-27: $12 per night, single site. The Forest Service records this as a STANDARD AMENITY FEE site. Not reservable on recreation.gov. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/shasta-trinity/recreation/big-flat-campground.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Big Flat Cg-F
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Big Flat Cg-F
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →