Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
Drive-up · public land · NM · 35.75023, -105.67189
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
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.
What the record says about the site — Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area · Santa Fe National Forest · NM
- Listed as a backcountry site
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,913 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Davis Willow Dispersed Camping AreaNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area · Santa Fe National Forest · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater8 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- AAir-up17 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- DDump34 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
7,913 ft
Ground slope
12.7% · noticeable
State
NM
Coordinates
35.75023, -105.67189
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area · Santa Fe National Forest · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePecos River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townTererro · ~0.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~2.1 mi
- FuelPancho's Shell Station · ~12.2 mi
- Propane / LPGMatheson TriGas · ~17.3 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~11.5 mi
- PharmacyNambe Drugs · ~15.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicVillage Clinic · ~12.4 mi
- Hardware1610 Hardware · ~17.4 mi
EV charging — from Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area · Santa Fe National Forest · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.2 mi straight-line S — Frankie's at the Casanova, Pecos, NM · LOOP · CHAdeMO, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach23 within 25 mi · 47 within 50 · 98 within 100 · 142 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)21.6 mi — Santa Fe, NM - Cerrillos Road - Tesla Supercharger, Santa Fe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.3 mi — BLHV EV CHARGER LODGE 2, Santa Fe, NM · 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 charger$1 activation fee; $0.59 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 399671 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area · Santa Fe National Forest · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDavis Willow · ~0.7 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomHoly Ghost · ~1.9 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHoly Ghost (Campground) · ~2.1 mi NW · USFS
- RestroomHoly Ghost (Group Campground) · ~2.5 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area · Santa Fe National Forest · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pecos River as a perennial river, ~0.1 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 12.7% — 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 Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area elsewhere
Other camps near Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Davis Willow~0.7 mi
- Links Tract Campground~0.7 mi
- Holy Ghost Campground~2.1 mi · fee
- Holy Ghost (Group Campground)~2.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area are set by Santa Fe National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Santa Fe at 11,480 ft, about 7 miles away. It sits about 3,567 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 — Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Davis Willow 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 — Davis Willow Dispersed Camping Area
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →