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BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · Okanogan County, WA · 48.84491, -119.59497
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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.
What the record says about the site — BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA · Bureau of Land Management · WA
- Listed as a backcountry site
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 BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,142 ft.
Fire & smoke — around BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WANIFC · 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 BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA · Bureau of Land Management · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- DDump10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- PPropane12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- EVEV fast charger33 mi
- WWater37 mi
- OOutfitter37 mi
- ShShower53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 37-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
3,142 ft
Ground slope
9.4% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~8.2 mi · main line
County
Okanogan County, WA
Coordinates
48.84491, -119.59497
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA · Bureau of Land Management · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWashburn Lake · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townLoomis · ~2.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.2 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~2.4 mi
- Propane / LPGLPG · ~15.1 mi
- Dump station~10.1 mi
- GroceriesLoomis Kwik Stop · ~2.4 mi
- PharmacyWhitestone Pharmacy · ~12.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicConfluence Health Clinic · ~11.9 mi
- HardwareLee Frank Mercantile · ~12.0 mi
EV charging — from BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA · Bureau of Land Management · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger33.3 mi straight-line S — Okanogan IGA Market, South Okanogan, WA (at a public site) · RED_E · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 18 within 100 · 246 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)85.0 mi — Entiat, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Entiat
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)9.7 mi — Camaray Motel, Oroville, WA (at a hotel) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-01-09 · 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 456461 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA · Bureau of Land Management · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSplit Rock - Double Vault Toilet · ~2.3 mi NW · BLM
- RestroomSpectacle Lake Wildlife Management Area -Precast Restroom Building · ~3.2 mi SE · BoR
- Vault / pit toiletChopaka Lake - Vault Toilet · ~7.0 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletFourteen Mile · ~11.6 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA · Bureau of Land Management · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Washburn Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 9.4% — noticeable. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~8.2 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA elsewhere
Other camps near BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Chopaka Lake And Chopaka Mountain Wilderness Study Area~6.9 mi
- Daisy Camp~12.2 mi
- Daisy~13.0 mi
- Salmon Meadows~17.1 mi · fee
The unit that manages BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA is in the Wenatchee Field Office, Spokane 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 — BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
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
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 BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
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 — BLM dispersed camp — Okanogan County, WA
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →