Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Cougar dispersed camping
OHV / 4×4 · public land · OR · 44.06570, -122.24159
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. 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 Cougar dispersed camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,502 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Cougar dispersed campingNIFC · 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 Cougar dispersed camping · Willamette National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower1 mi
- WWater2 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- RxPharmacy25 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- DDump33 mi
- PPropane34 mi
- LLaundry35 mi
- AAir-up37 mi
- OOutfitter40 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Cougar dispersed camping
Access
OHV / 4×4
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
2,502 ft
Ground slope
46.6% · steep
State
OR
Coordinates
44.06570, -122.24159
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Cougar dispersed camping · Willamette National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCougar Reservoir · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Rider Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townRainbow · ~7.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~2.2 mi
- FuelFuel · ~21.8 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~17.4 mi
- GroceriesBlue Sky Market · ~7.5 mi
- PharmacyOakridge Pharmacy · ~25.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicPeaceHealth Medical Group · ~30.7 mi
EV charging — from Cougar dispersed camping · Willamette National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.5 mi straight-line N — WCEH McKenzie, Blue River, OR · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 49 within 50 · 165 within 100 · 332 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)37.3 mi — Sisters, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Sisters
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.5 mi — WCEH McKenzie, Blue River, OR · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 73409 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Cougar dispersed camping · Willamette National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSlide Creek · ~1.1 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSunnyside · ~1.1 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCougar Crossing Boating · ~1.2 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCougar Crossing Campground · ~1.2 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Cougar dispersed camping · Willamette National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cougar Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.8 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 46.6% — 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 Cougar dispersed camping elsewhere
Other camps near Cougar dispersed camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Slide Creek~1.1 mi · fee
- Sunnyside~1.1 mi · fee
- Cougar Crossing Campground~1.2 mi · fee
- French Pete Campground~2.3 mi · fee
The unit that manages Cougar dispersed camping
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Cougar dispersed camping are set by Willamette National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Cougar dispersed camping
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
likely OHV (only a rough 4wd track in) — confirm
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Cougar dispersed camping
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 — Cougar dispersed camping
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Getting unstuck →Reading the aerial →All field notes →