Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
Drive-up · public land · OR · 44.19522, -121.61601
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
What the record says about the site — Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area · Deschutes National Forest · OR
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,342 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Black Pine Dispersed Camping AreaNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area · Deschutes National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery7 mi
- WWater7 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- RxPharmacy7 mi
- HHardware7 mi
- +Urgent care7 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- AAir-up8 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- PPropane17 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- DDump30 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
4,342 ft
Ground slope
7.6% · gentle
State
OR
Coordinates
44.19522, -121.61601
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area · Deschutes National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWhychus Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townSisters · ~7.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~7.3 mi
- FuelSpace Age / The Trails · ~7.3 mi
- Propane / LPGChevron Sisters · ~7.6 mi
- Dump station~29.9 mi
- GroceriesOliver Lemon's · ~7.4 mi
- PharmacyBi-Mart · ~7.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicSummit Healtj · ~7.4 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~7.4 mi
EV charging — from Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area · Deschutes National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.5 mi straight-line N — Sisters, OR - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · 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 reach17 within 25 mi · 32 within 50 · 134 within 100 · 336 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS7.6 mi — WCEH Sisters, Sisters
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO7.6 mi — WCEH Sisters, Sisters
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.3 mi — Oxbow Flats Apartments, Sisters, OR · NOODOE · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — FivePine Lodge and Spa, Sisters, 7.4 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only; see front desk for access · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 331831 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area · Deschutes National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLower Three Creek · ~1.2 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletUpper Three Creek Sno-Park · ~2.6 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWhychus Overlook · ~2.7 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPole Creek T.H. · ~4.2 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area · Deschutes National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: Whychus Creek (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7.6% — 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 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.
- 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 Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Sisters Cow Camp~5.5 mi
- Whispering Pine Horse Camp~5.5 mi · fee
- Three Creek Meadow~5.7 mi · fee
- Driftwood~6.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area are set by Deschutes National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
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)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
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 — Black Pine Dispersed Camping Area
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Stay limits →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →