Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Chapman Cg
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 39.31195, -106.64279
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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 — Chapman Cg · White River National Forest · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 105.1F (Chapman Loop F), 30 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 105.1F (Chapman Loop F), 30 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 21 – Oct 24. That season ends after Oct 24.
MVUM record for FR 105.1F (Chapman Loop F): “05/21-10/24” 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 Chapman Cg
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,567 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Chapman CgNIFC · 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 Chapman Cg · White River National Forest · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater0 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- HHardware19 mi
- LLaundry19 mi
- MMechanic19 mi
- DDump23 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- PPropane32 mi
- AAir-up38 mi
- ShShower41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Chapman Cg
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,567 ft
Ground slope
5.4% · gentle
State
CO
Coordinates
39.31195, -106.64279
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Chapman Cg · White River National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFryingpan River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townNorrie · ~1.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.2 mi
- FuelShell · ~12.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~23.2 mi
- GroceriesClark's Market · ~12.5 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~23.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicEagle Healthcare Center · ~25.1 mi
- HardwareBig Horn Ace Hardware · ~19.1 mi
EV charging — from Chapman Cg · White River National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.5 mi straight-line SW — CITY OF ASPEN RIO GRANDE DCFC · 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 reach15 within 25 mi · 50 within 50 · 281 within 100 · 458 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)13.7 mi — Aspen, CO - Tesla Supercharger, Aspen
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.5 mi — CITY OF ASPEN N SPRING L2 · ChargePoint Network · 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 260388 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Chapman Cg · White River National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLittle Mattie · ~9.9 mi NW · USFS
- Flush restroomMollie B · ~10.1 mi NW · USFS
- Flush restroomLittle Maud · ~10.3 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPeter Estin Hut · ~10.6 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Chapman Cg · White River National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Fryingpan 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 5.4% — 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 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 Chapman Cg elsewhere
Other camps near Chapman Cg
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Chapman Group~0.5 mi · fee
- Elk Wallow~2.7 mi · fee
- Dearhamer~6.1 mi · fee
- Little Mattie~9.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Chapman Cg
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Chapman Cg are set by White River National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Kiln at 9,610 ft, about 2 miles away. It sits about 1,043 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Chapman Cg
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-21: $30 per night for a single, RV or tent-only site for the 2026 season (May 13 to Oct 1), from the recreation.gov listing -- the White River NF Chapman page (updated May 19 2026) carries no fee section at all, though our pin sits exactly on the coordinates it prints. The group site in the same complex is $260 per night. Caveat: the forest's 2025 forest-wide campground table listed Chapman at $32 and flags that rates differ between weekdays and weekends, so the single $30 may be the low tier. Source: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232159 and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/whiteriver/recreation/chapman-campground-and-group-campground.
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 Chapman Cg
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 — Chapman Cg
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →What “dispersed” means here →How to read this page →All field notes →