Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · WA · 47.00763, -121.87082
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What the record says about the site — Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA
- Basic site, no services
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- No toilet
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,103 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Cayada Creek Road Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Cayada Creek Road Dispersed 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
- WWater10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- AAir-up14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- DDump17 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- PPropane21 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
3,103 ft
Ground slope
53.8% · steep
State
WA
Coordinates
47.00763, -121.87082
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCayada Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Kennedy Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCarbonado · ~9.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.6 mi
- FuelAPP · ~14.4 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~14.4 mi
- Dump station~17.0 mi
- GroceriesWilkeson Grocery · ~10.6 mi
- PharmacyChuck's Drug · ~13.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicRainier Natural Health Clinic · ~13.1 mi
- HardwareCutters Supply · ~14.3 mi
EV charging — from Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.0 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 · 176 within 50 · 400 within 100 · 621 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO18.8 mi — Rainier Basecamp LLC, Ashford
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.2 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 Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBLDG C120 Carbon River (Vault Toilet @ Entrance) · ~2.3 mi SW · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletSummit Lake · ~2.7 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomCarbon River Ranger Station · ~4.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomBLDG C130 Carbon River (Mowich Lake Vault Toilet) · ~5.2 mi S · NPS
Coming out here — Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping · Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cayada Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 53.8% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Carbon River Dispersed Roadside Camping~2.5 mi
- Evans Creek~5.6 mi · fee
- Pierce County~9.8 mi
- Pierce County~10.7 mi
The unit that manages Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Cayada Creek Road Dispersed Camping are set by Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Cayada Creek Road Dispersed 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)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Cayada Creek Road Dispersed 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