Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MS · 31.38500, -90.84751
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 · U.S. Forest Service · MS
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 152 (Cotton), 0.2 mi from the pin. The MVUM lists it as improved native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 152 (Cotton), 0.2 mi from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 152 (Cotton): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
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 Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 362 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Caston Creek WMA camp site 1NIFC · 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 Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 · U.S. Forest Service · MS
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery15 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- @Mail21 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
- AAir-up27 mi
- LLaundry27 mi
- DDump46 mi
- ShShower59 mi
- WWater60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 60-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 5 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. 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 — Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
362 ft
Ground slope
16.5% · steep
Nearest rail line
~5.1 mi · other track
State
MS
Coordinates
31.38500, -90.84751
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 · U.S. Forest Service · MS (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townDick · ~0.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.1 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~23.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesCrosby Quick Stop · ~15.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicFranklin County Memorial Hospital · ~6.5 mi
- HardwareThe Home Depot · ~25.7 mi
EV charging — from Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 · U.S. Forest Service · MS — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.1 mi straight-line SE — McComb, MS - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 77 within 100 · 127 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS55.0 mi — The Town of Franklinton, LA, Franklinton,
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO55.0 mi — The Town of Franklinton, LA, Franklinton,
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)25.0 mi — LOVE'S 393 - MS #393 L2 3, McComb, MS · 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 153420 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 · U.S. Forest Service · MS — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomLake Okhissa · ~1.9 mi N · USFS
- Flush restroomRichardson Creek Trailhead · ~8.6 mi W · USFS
- Flush restroomClear Spgs Rec Area · ~8.7 mi W · USFS
- RestroomNA Mt. Locust Info/Comfort Station Bldg. #364, MP 15.6 · ~29.0 mi NW · NPS
Coming out here — Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 · U.S. Forest Service · MS
- 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.
- About the name: this site is called Caston Creek WMA camp site 1, but no named stream, river or lake is mapped near the pin — none within 1 mi in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset and none named within 1.6 mi in our OpenStreetMap pull. Either the creek is not on those maps or it is further off than the name suggests.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 16.5% — steep. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~5.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~5.3 mi from the pin. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Caston Creek WMA camp site 1 elsewhere
Other camps near Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Caston Creek WMA camp site 2~2.7 mi
- Caston Creek WMA camp site 5~3.8 mi
- Caston Creek WMA camp site 3~6.5 mi
- Caston Creek WMA camp site 4~8.3 mi
Who holds the land at Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Homochitto National Forest, manager on record: Forest Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
Stay limit
30 nights (camp in a dispersed area for up to 30 days)
Source
public land records
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
Camp site mapped by MDWFP inside Caston Creek WMA, which lies on U.S. Forest Service land. Camping here is governed by the U.S. Forest Service, not MDWFP: 40 Miss Admin Code Pt 2 Ch 1 Rule 1.2 M ('Camping is allowed subject to U.S. Forest Service regulations') and Rule 1.5 A, which records the 10 Apr 2002 MOU giving the Forest Service authority over WMAs inside National Forest land. Forest Service dispersed-camping rules for the National Forests in Mississippi (fs.usda.gov/r08/mississippi/recreation/camping-cabins, read 2026-08-13): 'You may camp in a dispersed area for up to 30 days. After 30 days, you must move at least 5 road miles for camping in another dispersed area.' Camp 'at least 100 feet from any stream or other water source'; use existing fire rings; no wood permit needed; bury human waste in a cathole 200 ft from water or pack it out. Dispersed camping means 'no services (such as trash removal) and little or no facilities'. No fee. Coordinate is MDWFP's own GIS: public ArcGIS service https://arcgis.mdwfp.com/arcgis/rest/services/Website/WMA_New/MapServer layer 0 ('WMA POINT FEATURES'), queried 2026-08-13 for TYPE IN ('CAMPING','CAMP SITE','CAMP SITES'). It is the agency's mapped camp-site point, NOT a field visit and NOT a geocode. MDWFP does not publish per-site facilities, so table/fire-ring/toilet presence is UNKNOWN. No water source is claimed. A WMA User Permit (Rule 1.6 B, $15 resident / $30 non-resident annual) is required on USFS-owned WMAs only of people hunting, fishing or trapping -- not of campers. MDWFP Rule 1.1 bans alcoholic beverages on WMAs. Hunting seasons run here -- check mdwfp.com/wma and the Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map before you go, and wear hunter orange in season. Nearest town: Bude ~5.4 mi -- STRAIGHT-LINE distance to the nearest OpenStreetMap place=city/town/village, NOT a driving distance; in the Delta and the Pascagoula bottoms the road in can be far longer. MDWFP does not name its individual camp points, so the number in this row's name is ours, assigned in MDWFP OBJECTID order, not a sign on the ground. Ingest 2026-08-13. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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 Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Caston Creek WMA camp site 1
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Forest road numbers →Reading your camp page →All field notes →