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BLM public land
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · Moffat County, CO · 40.37614, -108.51972
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Ask about this camp →Dave's been here. A spot from Dave's own travels on Bureau of Land Management land — free to camp. Conditions still change, so confirm access, stay limits and fire rules before you go.
A spacious, primitive clear area with a fire ring in BLM land south of Dinosaur National Monument. Enough room for a few vehicles. Some cell service. Large network of dirt roads to explore in and around Dinosaur. High desert. Some red stone. Dramatic scenery. While surrounding scenery is impressive, campsite is comfortable, but not spectacular. Recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 21 June 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at BLM public land
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,726 ft.
Fire & smoke — around BLM public landNIFC · 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 BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump24 mi
- ShShower24 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- FFuel25 mi
- GGrocery25 mi
- MMechanic25 mi
- AAir-up27 mi
- @Mail27 mi
- WWater38 mi
- OOutfitter39 mi
- RxPharmacy51 mi
- HHardware51 mi
- +Urgent care52 mi
- PPropane53 mi
- LLaundry53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 38-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 25 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 public land
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
6,726 ft
Ground slope
0.8% · flat
County
Moffat County, CO
Coordinates
40.37614, -108.51972
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelKum & Go · ~24.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~24.4 mi
- GroceriesKum & Go · ~24.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
Had a signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.7 mi straight-line NE — Maybell, CO (at a standalone station) · JULE · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-08-12 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 50 within 100 · 124 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.3 mi — MOFFAT COUNTY DINOSAUR PL1, Dinosaur
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)39.7 mi — WREA MAIN ST LVL 2, Meeker, CO · 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 417308 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaElk Springs Rest Area · ~4.1 mi E
- RestroomDeerlodge Campground SST · ~4.9 mi N · NPS
- RestroomEast Cross Mountain Restroom · ~12.8 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomSand Wash Basin Restroom - (Old Irish) · ~20.5 mi NW · BLM
Coming out here — BLM public land · Bureau of Land Management · CO
- 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 0.8% — 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.
Open BLM public land elsewhere
Other camps near BLM public land
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Willow Creek Wsa~19.3 mi
Who holds the land at BLM public land
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Little Snake Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — BLM public land
Source
Dave's own travels
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
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Moffat County, CO). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 21 June 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about BLM public land
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 public land
Winter vs summer roads →Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →