Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 36.98168, -112.91511
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Cottonwood Point Wilderness
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,261 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Cottonwood Point WildernessNIFC · 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 Cottonwood Point Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail3 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- RxPharmacy3 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- DDump11 mi
- WWater15 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- MMechanic18 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- EVEV fast charger22 mi
- AAir-up22 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
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 — Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
5,261 ft
Ground slope
4.5% · gentle
State
AZ
Coordinates
36.98168, -112.91511
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Cottonwood Point Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townCane Beds · ~3.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~3.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~10.7 mi
- GroceriesBee's · ~3.4 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~3.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicFredonia Community Health Center · ~21.6 mi
- HardwareSol Foods Hardware · ~15.0 mi
EV charging — from Cottonwood Point Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger22.0 mi straight-line E — Honey's Marketplace - Tesla Supercharger, Kanab, UT (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 32 within 100 · 129 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS34.8 mi — Walmart 1439 (Washington, UT), Washington
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO37.4 mi — EV EXPERIENCE FAST CHARGER1, St. George
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)14.6 mi — Driftwood Lodge, Springdale, UT · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Best Western Plus Zion Canyon Inn & Suites, Springdale, 15.1 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; guest use only · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.57 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 462303 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Cottonwood Point Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletWater Canyon Trailhead Cxt Vault Toilet · ~4.5 mi NW · BLM
- RestroomVisitor Center · ~12.8 mi SE · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletRomtec Aspen Vault · ~13.1 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletPonderosa Grove Campground Group Site Vault Toilet · ~15.2 mi NE · BLM
Coming out here — Cottonwood Point Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 4.5% — 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.
- 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.
- Practice a first night on real ground in Dispersed 3D, free in the browser. The game's ground is Montana's Lolo, Custer Gallatin and Beaverhead-Deerlodge forests and the Arizona desert at Quartzsite; this camp is not in 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 Cottonwood Point Wilderness elsewhere
Other camps near Cottonwood Point Wilderness
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Canaan Mountain Wilderness~4.3 mi
- Coral Pink Sand Dunes~13.0 mi
- Washington County~13.4 mi
- Utah Trust Land Dispersed Camping — Kane County, UT (37.2069, -112.8069)~16.7 mi
The unit that manages Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Cottonwood Point Wilderness is in the Arizona Strip Field Office, Arizona Strip 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 — Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "There are no permits, passes, or fees required to visit this wilderness area. It is free. However, commercial, competitive, and large organized group events require a special recreation permit . Contact the local managin…" https://www.blm.gov/visit/cottonwood-point-wilderness
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "There are no permits, passes, or fees required to visit this wilderness area. It is free. However, commercial, competitive, and large organized group events require a special recreation permit . Contact the local managin…" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/cottonwood-point-wilderness (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Cottonwood Point Wilderness
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 — Cottonwood Point Wilderness
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Stay limits →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →