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Bradfield Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 37.65905, -108.73713
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Bradfield Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CO
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 504 (Lone Dome), 0.4 mi away. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Bradfield Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,459 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Bradfield CampgroundNIFC · 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 Bradfield Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail4 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- WWater15 mi
- MMechanic23 mi
- EVEV fast charger23 mi
- ShShower30 mi
- AAir-up32 mi
- RxPharmacy36 mi
- OOutfitter54 mi
- PPropane57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Bradfield Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,459 ft
Ground slope
0.6% · flat
State
CO
Coordinates
37.65905, -108.73713
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Bradfield Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureDolores River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Canyon Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCahone · ~3.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSkyline Gas & Food Store · ~17.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~9.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicSouthwest Memorial Hospital · ~22.4 mi
EV charging — from Bradfield Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger23.3 mi straight-line SE — Cortez, CO - Tesla Supercharger (at a bank) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 52 within 100 · 98 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.2 mi — STATE OF UTAH WELCOME EAST 1, Monticello
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)22.9 mi — MC Annex 1, Cortez, CO · EVGATEWAY · 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 398001 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Bradfield Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBradfield Restroom #2 - Loop C · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomBradfield Restroom #1 - Loop B · at this camp · BLM
- Flush restroomGlade Guard Station · ~10.0 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomDolores R Overlook Restroom · ~10.6 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Bradfield Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Dolores River as a perennial river, ~0.1 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 0.6% — 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.
- 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 Bradfield Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Bradfield Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Ferris Canyon Campground~6.3 mi
- House Creek Campground~14.7 mi · fee
- McPhee Campground~15.1 mi
- Canyons Of The Ancient National Monument~15.1 mi
Who holds the land at Bradfield Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Tres Rios Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). Our own record names USFS as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Bradfield Campground
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)
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Bradfield Campground
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 — Bradfield Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →