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Clallam County
Drive-up · public land · Clallam County, WA · 47.97471, -124.09695
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Nice! A mountaintop clearing with views on both sides. Can see for miles. The forest road to the top is short, but very overgrown, so be prepared to push away branches. Very private and secretive. There is a fire ring here, but long neglected. You won't be bothered, and there's enough room for one or two vehicles. No cell service. Recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 25 July 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Clallam County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,305 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Clallam CountyNIFC · 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 Clallam County · Olympic National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- WWater11 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- AAir-up30 mi
- PPropane52 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 — Clallam County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
3,305 ft
Ground slope
16.2% · steep
County
Clallam County, WA
Coordinates
47.97471, -124.09695
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Clallam County · Olympic National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePistol Creek · ~0.3 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Peter Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townSappho · ~10.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelPacific Pride · ~14.1 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~28.5 mi
- Dump station~10.5 mi
- GroceriesSol Duc Hot Springs Resort Gift Shop & Grocery Store · ~10.8 mi
- PharmacyChinook Pharmacy & Variety · ~13.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicForks Community Hospital · ~13.8 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~13.6 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Clallam County · Olympic National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.4 mi straight-line W — Forks, WA (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 314 within 100 · 369 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)13.5 mi — Forks, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Forks
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO33.3 mi — Ruddell Auto, Port Angeles
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.8 mi — Olympic National Park - Sol Duc Hot Springs Resort, Port Angeles, WA (at a national park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-01-13 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Hoh Valley Cabins, Forks, 11.1 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 391346 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Clallam County · Olympic National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCamp Creek Olympic Discovery · ~6.0 mi N · USFS
- Flush restroomKlahowya · ~6.2 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletKloshe Nanitch Lookout Observation Site · ~7.4 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLittleton · ~8.0 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Clallam County · Olympic National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pistol Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.3 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 16.2% — 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.
- 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 Clallam County elsewhere
Other camps near Clallam County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Klahowya~6.2 mi · fee
- Dispersed Camping Area~6.5 mi
- Littleton~8.0 mi · fee
- Clallam County~8.2 mi
The unit that manages Clallam County
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Clallam County are set by Olympic National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Clallam County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Clallam County, WA). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 25 July 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Clallam County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — Clallam County
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Stay limits →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →