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BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 34.16412, -116.21835
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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 BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,362 ft.
Fire & smoke — around BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNPNIFC · 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 Camping Area for JNP · Bureau of Land Management · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- DDump12 mi
- PPropane14 mi
- ShShower30 mi
- AAir-up56 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 — BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,362 ft
Ground slope
1.7% · flat
State
CA
Coordinates
34.16412, -116.21835
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCoyote Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: playa, no flow class
- Nearest townSunfair · ~1.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.7 mi
- Fuel76 · ~5.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~11.7 mi
- GroceriesCircle K · ~5.7 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~7.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicHi-Desert Medical Center · ~3.9 mi
- HardwareStarr's Toolbox · ~13.1 mi
EV charging — from BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.7 mi straight-line W — Joshua Tree, CA (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 58 within 50 · 545 within 100 · 1301 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO9.5 mi — COMMUNITYCENTER FASTCHARGE2, Twentynine Palms
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.6 mi — Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, CA (at a college campus) · SWTCH · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-05-03 · 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 391228 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomVault Toilet, Double, Indian Cove Ranger Station · ~4.7 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomVault Toilet, Single, Indian Cove Group Campsite 7 · ~5.5 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomVault Toilet, Single, Indian Cove Group Campsite 6 · ~5.6 mi SE · NPS
- RestroomVault Toilet, Single, Indian Cove Nature Trail · ~5.6 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Coyote Lake as a playa (no flow class in the record), ~0.1 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 1.7% — flat. 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 BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Big Pine Flat Cg~16.0 mi · fee
- BLM public land~19.5 mi
- San Gorgonio Wilderness~24.3 mi
- Sand To Snow National Monument~24.4 mi
The unit that manages BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP
BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP is in the Barstow Field Office, California Desert 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 Camping Area for JNP
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
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 BLM Dispersed Camping Area for JNP
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 Camping Area for JNP
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Reading your camp page →All field notes →