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Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NM · 35.80535, -106.13517
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 — Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Room for 4 parties
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 Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,868 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and ParkingNIFC · 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 Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking · Bureau of Land Management · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- MMechanic4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- +Urgent care4 mi
- HHardware4 mi
- RxPharmacy4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- WWater6 mi
- DDump8 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- OOutfitter13 mi
- AAir-up13 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
5,868 ft
Ground slope
7.8% · gentle
Nearest highway
~8.4 mi · US Hwy 285
State
NM
Coordinates
35.80535, -106.13517
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking · Bureau of Land Management · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCañada Ancha · ~0.1 mi · USGS: ephemeral wash
- Nearest townBuckman · ~2.2 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~8.4 mi · US Hwy 285
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.0 mi
- FuelSpeedway · ~4.3 mi
- Propane / LPGRael Propane · ~13.1 mi
- Dump stationJuniper Campground Dump Station · ~8.1 mi
- GroceriesSmith's · ~4.5 mi
- PharmacySmith's Pharmacy · ~4.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicChildren's Clinic · ~4.3 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~8.7 mi
EV charging — from Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking · Bureau of Land Management · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger4.6 mi straight-line W — LAC DPU WHITE ROCK, Los Alamos, NM · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach27 within 25 mi · 36 within 50 · 95 within 100 · 155 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)13.7 mi — Santa Fe, NM - Cerrillos Road - Tesla Supercharger, Santa Fe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.2 mi — White Rock Municipal Complex (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-02-13 · 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 350413 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking · Bureau of Land Management · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletCrrt Diablo Canyon Trailhead Rec Site Single Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomWhite Rock County Visitor Center · ~4.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomRestroom · ~4.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomTsankawi Comfort Station · ~6.3 mi NW · NPS
Coming out here — Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cañada Ancha as an ephemeral wash, ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as ephemeral — it carries water only during and right after storms or snowmelt. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7.8% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- US Hwy 285 is mapped ~8.4 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.
- 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 Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking elsewhere
Other camps near Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Juniper Family Campground~8.1 mi · fee
- Ponderosa Group Campground~12.6 mi · fee
- BLM public land~15.7 mi
- BLM dispersed camp — Santa Fe County, NM~16.4 mi
The unit that manages Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking is in the Taos Field Office, Farmington 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 — Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
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
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 Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
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 — Diablo Canyon Recreation Area Camping and Parking
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →