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Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 33.66355, -115.72296
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,718 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Chiriaco Summit BLM CampgroundNIFC · 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 Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground · 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
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- EVEV fast charger0 mi
- WWater8 mi
- DDump8 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- RxPharmacy21 mi
- +Urgent care21 mi
- OOutfitter25 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- HHardware29 mi
- PPropane49 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
1,718 ft
Ground slope
3.4% · gentle
Nearest highway
~0.2 mi · Interstate 10
State
CA
Coordinates
33.66355, -115.72296
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureStream · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townChiriaco Summit · ~0.1 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~0.2 mi · Interstate 10
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~7.6 mi
- FuelChevron · ~0.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~7.8 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~0.2 mi
- PharmacyMecca Community Pharmacy · ~21.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicMecca Medical Clinic · ~21.3 mi
EV charging — from Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger0.2 mi straight-line SE — CHIRIACO CHIRIACO S DC2, 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 · 42 within 50 · 292 within 100 · 1028 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)28.8 mi — Indio, CA - Tesla Supercharger, Indio
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.2 mi — CHIRIACO CHIRIACO S L2, 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 212701 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBuilding, Amphitheater Projection, Cottownood CG Bldg 223 · ~7.6 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomCW CG Loop A Comfort Stn 220 · ~7.6 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomCW Group Site/Picnic Comfort Stn 222 · ~7.6 mi NW · NPS
- RestroomCW CG Loop B Comfort Stn 221 · ~7.7 mi NW · NPS
Coming out here — Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: Stream. That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 3.4% — 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 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 ~0.2 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.
- 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 Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Orocopia Mountains Wilderness~10.6 mi
- Bradshaw Trail National Back Country Byway~10.7 mi
- Mecca Hills Wilderness~15.1 mi
The unit that manages Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground 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 — Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
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
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 Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
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 — Chiriaco Summit BLM Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Leave no trace →All field notes →