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Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 34.59285, -114.35402
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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 Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 992 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping 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 Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area · 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
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- HHardware2 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- WWater9 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- DDump20 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- LLaundry39 mi
- ShShower40 mi
- AAir-up43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
992 ft
Ground slope
24% · steep
Nearest rail line
~10.0 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~9.3 mi · Interstate 40
State
AZ
Coordinates
34.59285, -114.35402
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townCrystal Beach · ~2.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~10.0 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~9.3 mi · Interstate 40
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.7 mi
- FuelTerrible’s · ~8.1 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~27.6 mi
- Dump station~19.7 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~1.7 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~8.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicHavasu Regional Medical Center · ~7.8 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~8.1 mi
EV charging — from Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.9 mi straight-line S — Bradley Ford, Lake Havasu City, AZ (at a public site) · FORD_CHARGE · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 15 within 50 · 29 within 100 · 240 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)21.1 mi — Needles, CA - E Broadway St - Tesla Supercharger, Needles
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO47.2 mi — Kroger Smiths 190 (Kingman, AZ), Kingman
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.5 mi — ANDERSON TOYOTA SERV PEDESTAL, Lake Havasu City, AZ · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · 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 416808 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBluebird Recreation · ~10.7 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWren Cove 3 · ~10.9 mi S · BLM
- Portable toiletPorta Jons - Wren Cove · ~10.9 mi S · BLM
- Portable toilet- Porta Jon - Wren Cove 2 · ~10.9 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area · 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 24% — steep. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
- Rail line mapped ~10.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 40 is mapped ~9.3 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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.
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If this one is full, gated or washed out.
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The unit that manages Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area
Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area is in the Lake Havasu Field Office, Colorado River 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 — Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
no road or trail found nearby — check manually
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 Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping 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.
- 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 — Craggy Wash Dispersed Camping Area
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