Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Corney Lake Rec Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · LA · 32.90501, -92.74401
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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 — Corney Lake Rec Area · Kisatchie National Forest · LA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 901 (South Shore Dr), 220 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as bituminous surface treatment surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 901 (South Shore Dr), 220 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 901 (South Shore Dr): “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 Corney Lake Rec Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 121 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Corney Lake Rec AreaNIFC · 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 Corney Lake Rec Area · Kisatchie National Forest · LA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail5 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- RxPharmacy20 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- HHardware21 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- OOutfitter22 mi
- WWater24 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- AAir-up28 mi
- ShShower52 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 7 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 — Corney Lake Rec Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
121 ft
Ground slope
2.9% · flat
State
LA
Coordinates
32.90501, -92.74401
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Corney Lake Rec Area · Kisatchie National Forest · LA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCorney Bayou · ~0.5 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Corney Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townScottsville · ~2.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~7.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesDixie Mart · ~19.4 mi
- PharmacyBrookshire's Pharmacy · ~19.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicReeves Memorial Medical Center · ~7.6 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~25.8 mi
EV charging — from Corney Lake Rec Area · Kisatchie National Forest · LA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.0 mi straight-line S — Ruston, LA - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 24 within 100 · 72 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO37.4 mi — EVerCharge - Minden City Hall, Minden
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)21.2 mi — Trotter Nissan, El Dorado, AR (at a car dealership) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-02-12 · hours: Dealership business hours
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Karol Malone Ford, El Dorado, 21.2 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for customers with appointments only
- 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 225841 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Corney Lake Rec Area · Kisatchie National Forest · LA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomCorney Lake Rec Area · at this camp · USFS
Coming out here — Corney Lake Rec Area · Kisatchie National Forest · LA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Corney Bayou as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.5 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 2.9% — flat. 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 Corney Lake Rec Area elsewhere
Other camps near Corney Lake Rec Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Sugar Creek Hunter~4.8 mi
- Turkey Trot Hunter~12.0 mi
- Bucktail Hunter Camp~15.3 mi
The unit that manages Corney Lake Rec Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Corney Lake Rec Area are set by Kisatchie National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Corney Lake Rec Area
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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
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 Corney Lake Rec Area
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 — Corney Lake Rec Area
Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading the aerial →All field notes →