Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 34.15102, -116.76692
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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 — Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1N02L (Yp#7), 50 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1N02L (Yp#7), 50 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 1N02L (Yp#7): “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 Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,075 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Coon Creek Yellow Post #7NIFC · 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 Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower6 mi
- DDump6 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- LLaundry8 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- WWater10 mi
- PPropane10 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,075 ft
Ground slope
9.9% · noticeable
State
CA
Coordinates
34.15102, -116.76692
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 · San Bernardino National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCoon Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Heart Bar Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townWoodlands · ~6.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.7 mi
- FuelBest Gas · ~8.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~6.3 mi
- GroceriesElkhorn General Store · ~9.3 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~17.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicBear Valley Community Hospital · ~9.6 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~17.6 mi
EV charging — from Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 · San Bernardino National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.6 mi straight-line NW — Homestreet Bank Big Bear, Big Bear Lake, CA · LOOP · CHAdeMO, CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach28 within 25 mi · 222 within 50 · 1064 within 100 · 1289 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)9.7 mi — Big Bear Lake, CA - Big Bear Boulevard - Tesla Supercharger, Big Bear Lake
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.8 mi — Sunnybrook Estate, Big Bear Lake, CA · LOOP · J1772 · 9 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Big Bear Lake, Big Bear Lake, 9.5 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only
- Pricing at the fast charger$1 activation fee; $0.45 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 398968 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 · San Bernardino National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomVivian Trailhead · ~8.5 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomFalls Picnic · ~8.6 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomBig Falls Trailhead · ~8.7 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomMomyer Trailhead · ~9.5 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Coon Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 9.9% — noticeable. 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 Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 elsewhere
Other camps near Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Coon Creek Yellow Post #9~0.1 mi
- Coon Creek Yellow Post #10~0.2 mi
- Coon Creek Yellow Post #1~0.2 mi · fee
- Heart Bar Equestrian Cg~0.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Coon Creek Yellow Post #7 are set by San Bernardino National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
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)
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 Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
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 — Coon Creek Yellow Post #7
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Forest road numbers →Camping with a dog →All field notes →