Craters Of The Moon National Monument
Inside a national park unit
This camp sits inside Craters of the Moon National Monument — a national monument run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/crmo ↗
This page calls it a dispersed camp because that is what the source record says. Inside a park unit that word does not mean camp anywhere.
Our record names BLM as the land manager; the Park Service’s own boundary map puts this point inside the unit. Two agencies disagree about one spot — ask the park first.
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2017-05-31). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
Everything you need — measured from Craters Of The Moon National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · ID
- WWater0 mi
- FFuel17 mi
- DDump17 mi
- GGrocery18 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- EVEV fast charger35 mi
- RxPharmacy43 mi
- +Urgent care59 mi
- LLaundry59 mi
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 17 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 35-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 — Craters Of The Moon National Monument
Nearby & resupply — around Craters Of The Moon National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townArco · ~17.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.1 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~16.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~17.4 mi
- GroceriesA & A Market · ~17.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicLost Rivers Medical Center · ~18.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware - Rancher's Supply · ~27.7 mi
EV charging — from Craters Of The Moon National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger35.4 mi straight-line W — Bellevue, ID - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 · 3 within 50 · 34 within 100 · 70 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS38.0 mi — ANNEX EVCS BLAINE COUNTY 1, Hailey
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO38.0 mi — ANNEX EVCS BLAINE COUNTY 1, Hailey
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)35.4 mi — SILVER CREEK HOTEL BELLEVUE · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports 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 405686 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Craters Of The Moon National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBLDG Visitors Center · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomBLDG Brick Restroom · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomBLDG Log Restroom · at this camp · NPS
- RestroomBLDG Vault Toilet Lava Campground · at this camp · NPS
Coming out here — Craters Of The Moon National Monument · Bureau of Land Management · ID
- 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 8% — noticeable. 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 Craters Of The Moon National Monument elsewhere
Other camps near Craters Of The Moon National Monument
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Fish Creek Reservoir~13.4 mi
- Friedman Creek Wilderness Study Area~15.3 mi
- Iron Bog Campground~16.5 mi · fee
- Great Rift Isa Wilderness Study Area~17.3 mi
The unit that manages Craters Of The Moon National Monument
Craters Of The Moon National Monument is in the Shoshone Field Office, Twin Falls 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.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Fish Ck at 6,380 ft, about 10 miles away. It sits about 484 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Craters Of The Moon National Monument
What we don’t know about Craters Of The Moon National Monument
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