Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
Drive-up · public land · WA · 46.99451, -121.92129
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. 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 Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,736 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Carbon River Dispersed Roadside CampingNIFC · 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 Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail8 mi
- WWater9 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- DDump17 mi
- EVEV fast charger17 mi
- PPropane20 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 — Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
1,736 ft
Ground slope
3.5% · gentle
State
WA
Coordinates
46.99451, -121.92129
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCarbon River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)June Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCarbonado · ~8.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.0 mi
- FuelAPP · ~14.6 mi
- Propane / LPGBlack Bear Outpost Propane · ~22.7 mi
- Dump station~16.8 mi
- GroceriesWilkeson Grocery · ~9.6 mi
- PharmacyChuck's Drug · ~12.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicRainier Natural Health Clinic · ~12.7 mi
- HardwareReynolds Trading · ~14.5 mi
EV charging — from Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger16.8 mi straight-line NW — Walmart EV Charging, Bonney Lake, WA (at a shopping center) · WALMART · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-14 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach14 within 25 mi · 183 within 50 · 415 within 100 · 623 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.1 mi — Rainier Basecamp LLC, Ashford
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.5 mi — Outpost EV, Enumclaw, WA (at a public site) · RED_E · J1772 · 3 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.52 Peak / $0.31 Off-Peak per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 466565 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBLDG C120 Carbon River (Vault Toilet @ Entrance) · ~0.3 mi E · NPS
- RestroomCarbon River Ranger Station · ~2.0 mi W · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletEvans Creek · ~3.8 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletEvans Creek Picnic · ~3.8 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Carbon 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 3.5% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 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 Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping~2.5 mi
- Evans Creek~3.9 mi · fee
- Pierce County~12.2 mi
- Pierce County~13.2 mi
The unit that manages Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping are set by Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
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)
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
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 — Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Stay limits →Reading your camp page →All field notes →