Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Diamondfield Jack Cg
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 42.17148, -114.27590
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Diamondfield Jack Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 70500 (Oakley-Rogerson), 230 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 70500 (Oakley-Rogerson), 230 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 70500 (Oakley-Rogerson): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Diamondfield Jack Cg
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,005 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Diamondfield Jack CgNIFC · 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 Diamondfield Jack Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel16 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- @Mail24 mi
- MMechanic27 mi
- HHardware27 mi
- OOutfitter28 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
- WWater28 mi
- RxPharmacy29 mi
- EVEV fast charger30 mi
- ShShower33 mi
- DDump33 mi
- LLaundry38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 28-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 16 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 30-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 — Diamondfield Jack Cg
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,005 ft
Ground slope
10.8% · noticeable
State
ID
Coordinates
42.17148, -114.27590
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Diamondfield Jack Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGoose Creek · ~0.3 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair Rogerson · ~16.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesRogerson Service · ~16.6 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~28.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicVA Clinic · ~28.2 mi
- HardwareGrover's Pay and Pack · ~27.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Diamondfield Jack Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger30.5 mi straight-line N — L172 PL1 TWIN FALLS · ChargePoint Network · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 10 within 50 · 22 within 100 · 89 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)30.9 mi — Twin Falls, ID - Tesla Supercharger, Twin Falls
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.7 mi — VOLVO CAR USA TWIN FALLS DC1, Twin Falls
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.7 mi — Buster's Restaurant & Saloon and RV Park - Tesla Destination, Hollister, ID (at a restaurant) · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- 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 434725 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Diamondfield Jack Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDiamondfield Jack Cg · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPorcupine Trailhead · ~0.8 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPorcupine Springs Family Campground Loop D · ~0.8 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPettit Cg · ~0.8 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Diamondfield Jack Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Goose Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.3 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 10.8% — 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.
- 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 Diamondfield Jack Cg elsewhere
Other camps near Diamondfield Jack Cg
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Porcupine Springs Family Campground Loop D~0.8 mi · fee
- Pettit Cg~0.8 mi · fee
- Porcupine Springs Cg~0.9 mi · fee
- Upper Penstemon Cg~1.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Diamondfield Jack Cg
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Diamondfield Jack Cg are set by Sawtooth National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Magic Mountain at 6,940 ft, less than a mile away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Diamondfield Jack Cg
Stay limit
14 nights (Campers who remain longer than 14 consecutive days and/or camp more than 14 days within a 28 day period may receive violation notices and fines under the authority described under Special Order Number: 0414-01-028.)
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. || Water: Sawtooth National Forest's own site page for Diamondfield Jack Campground, https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/sawtooth/recreation/diamondfield-jack-campground (read 2026-08-24; page "Last updated" April 8, 2025), "Facility and Amenity Information > Water": "Potable water is available at this site.". Corroborated by the USFS EDW Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0, re-queried live 2026-08-24 for SITE_ID 28012 / MANAGING_ORG 041401), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "Potable Water is availble typically June through September". No natural water anywhere near this site is claimed to be potable. Agency record only -- not field-verified. Nightshift fire 1680 (Idaho batch 2). | Fee 2026-09-28: $8 per night, single site. The camp's recreation.gov scan-and-pay listing (id 10191065, 0.001 mi from this pin) publishes no 2026 rate. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/sawtooth/recreation/diamondfield-jack-campground (page last updated April 8, 2025).
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Diamondfield Jack Cg
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Diamondfield Jack Cg
Winter vs summer roads →Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading your camp page →All field notes →