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Copper Creek Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 45.07925, -116.78602
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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 — Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
What the record says about the site — Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- Campfires allowed on the record -- check today's restrictions
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 Copper Creek Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,717 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Copper Creek CampgroundNIFC · 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 Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater3 mi
- DDump3 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- GGrocery22 mi
- ShShower25 mi
- OOutfitter25 mi
- FFuel26 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- HHardware29 mi
- +Urgent care33 mi
- RxPharmacy34 mi
- MMechanic34 mi
- EVEV fast charger36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 22 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 36-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Copper Creek Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,717 ft
Ground slope
6.6% · gentle
State
OR
Coordinates
45.07925, -116.78602
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCopper Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Snake River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCuprum · ~4.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~2.8 mi
- FuelChevron · ~25.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.8 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~22.8 mi
EV charging — from Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger35.5 mi straight-line E — McCall, ID - Tesla Supercharger (at a municipal building) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 29 within 100 · 98 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS35.7 mi — MCCALL CHARGEPO MC CHARGE 3, McCall
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO35.7 mi — MCCALL CHARGEPO MC CHARGE 2, McCall
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.0 mi — Copperfield Campground, Oxbow, OR (at a campground) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-08-15 · 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 405687 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomToilet, Cxt, 1 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomToilet, Cxt, 2 · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHells Canyon Overlook · ~3.9 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBig Bar · ~4.1 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Copper Creek Campground · U.S. Forest Service · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Copper 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 6.6% — 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 Copper Creek Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Copper Creek Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Big Bar Dispersed Camping Area~4.1 mi
- Airstrip Campground~5.7 mi
- Bob Creek Campground~6.4 mi
- Ollokot Campground~6.7 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Copper Creek Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Vale Baker Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). Our own record names USFS as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Copper Creek 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)
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.
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 Copper Creek 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 — Copper Creek Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Power off-grid →All field notes →