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Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 33.55948, -115.58433
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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 Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,525 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Bradshaw Trail National Back Country BywayNIFC · 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 Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway · 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
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- WWater16 mi
- DDump18 mi
- ShShower19 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
- LLaundry29 mi
- MMechanic29 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
- HHardware38 mi
- PPropane54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
1,525 ft
Ground slope
3.8% · gentle
Nearest highway
~7.8 mi · Interstate 10
State
CA
Coordinates
33.55948, -115.58433
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSalt Creek · ~0.4 mi · USGS: ephemeral wash
- Nearest townSummit · ~4.0 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~7.8 mi · Interstate 10
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~10.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~18.5 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~10.5 mi
- PharmacyMecca Community Pharmacy · ~28.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicMecca Medical Clinic · ~28.2 mi
EV charging — from Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger10.5 mi straight-line NW — CHIRIACO CHIRIACO S DC1, Indio, CA · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 27 within 50 · 213 within 100 · 899 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)38.4 mi — Indio, CA - Tesla Supercharger, Indio
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.5 mi — CHIRIACO CHIRIACO S -2ND, Indio, CA · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 165779 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomDos Palmas -Pond Toilet · ~14.8 mi W · BLM
- RestroomCorn Springs Cg -Toilet 20 · ~15.6 mi E · BLM
- RestroomCorn Springs Cg -Toilet 10 · ~15.6 mi E · BLM
- RestroomDos Palmas -San Andreas Toilet · ~15.8 mi W · BLM
Coming out here — Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Salt Creek as an ephemeral wash, ~0.4 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as ephemeral — it carries water only during and right after storms or snowmelt. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.8% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 10 is mapped ~7.8 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway elsewhere
Other camps near Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground~10.7 mi
- Orocopia Mountains Wilderness~17.8 mi
- Mecca Hills Wilderness~23.1 mi
The unit that manages Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway is in the Palm Springs/S. Coast 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 — Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
Source
Bureau of Land Management recreation data
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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
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 — Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →