Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 33.61524, -113.13984
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,608 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Big Horn Mountains WildernessNIFC · 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 Horn Mountains Wilderness · 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
- WWater8 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- GGrocery14 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- MMechanic23 mi
- LLaundry27 mi
- HHardware32 mi
- EVEV fast charger33 mi
- +Urgent care34 mi
- RxPharmacy35 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- ShShower37 mi
- DDump37 mi
- OOutfitter42 mi
- AAir-up46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 14 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 33-mi run (and back).
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 Horn Mountains Wilderness
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,608 ft
Ground slope
62.1% · steep
Nearest highway
~5.4 mi · Interstate 10
State
AZ
Coordinates
33.61524, -113.13984
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Big Horn Mountains Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townCentennial · ~12.6 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~5.4 mi · Interstate 10
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~7.7 mi
- FuelExxon · ~14.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesB & B Express · ~14.3 mi
EV charging — from Big Horn Mountains Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger32.9 mi straight-line NE — Wickenburg, AZ - W Wickenburg Way - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 16 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 11 within 50 · 126 within 100 · 174 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS34.0 mi — Wickenburg, AZ, Wickenburg
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO35.7 mi — Walmart 3407 (Buckeye, AZ), Buckeye
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)30.3 mi — RDLC RDLC, Wickenburg, AZ · ChargePoint Network · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 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 428673 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Big Horn Mountains Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaBurnt Well (EB) · ~7.7 mi SE
- Highway rest areaBurnt Well (WB) · ~7.7 mi SE
- Vault / pit toiletEagle Eye Staging Area · ~12.0 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHarquahala Basecamp Trailhead 2 · ~21.1 mi NW · BLM
Coming out here — Big Horn Mountains Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 62.1% — 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 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 10 is mapped ~5.4 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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.
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Other camps near Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- BLM public land~24.2 mi
The unit that manages Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
Big Horn Mountains Wilderness 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 — Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "The Big Horn Mountains Wilderness is free (no fee required) for general visits by the public. However, commercial, competitive, and large organized group events require a special recreation permit . Contact the Hassayamp…" https://www.blm.gov/visit/big-horn-mountains-wilderness
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "The Big Horn Mountains Wilderness is free (no fee required) for general visits by the public. However, commercial, competitive, and large organized group events require a special recreation permit . Contact the Hassayamp…" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/big-horn-mountains-wilderness (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Horn Mountains Wilderness
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 — Big Horn Mountains Wilderness
What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Hot-weather camping →Getting unstuck →All field notes →