Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
Drive-up · public land · Onondaga County, NY · 42.80004, -75.99821
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What the record says about the site — Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY · public land · NY
- Tent camping
- Listed as a backcountry site
- Informal, undeveloped 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 Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,746 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NYNIFC · 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 Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY · public land · NY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail2 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- LLaundry5 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- EVEV fast charger6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- WWater9 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- +Urgent care15 mi
- AAir-up16 mi
- DDump18 mi
- PPropane24 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 mi out.
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 — Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
1,746 ft
Ground slope
11.6% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~3.8 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~6.3 mi · Interstate 81
County
Onondaga County, NY
Coordinates
42.80004, -75.99821
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY · public land · NY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureShackham Brook · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Shackham Pond (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townKeeney · ~2.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~3.8 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~6.3 mi · Interstate 81
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.1 mi
- FuelFuel · ~7.8 mi
- Propane / LPGSyracuse Propane King · ~15.4 mi
- Dump station~17.6 mi
- GroceriesCLN Mercantile · ~2.6 mi
- PharmacyKinney Pharmacy Department · ~6.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicGuthrie Homer · ~15.4 mi
- HardwareTully Building Supply · ~5.5 mi
EV charging — from Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY · public land · NY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.3 mi straight-line W — Tully, NY - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach39 within 25 mi · 103 within 50 · 239 within 100 · 554 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS6.3 mi — Jack McNerney Chevrolet, Tully
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO6.3 mi — Jack McNerney Chevrolet, Tully
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.5 mi — Southern Hills Veterinary Hospital, Tully, NY (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-05-09 · 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 254097 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY · public land · NY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaPreble · ~9.5 mi SW
- Highway rest areaDewitt Travel Plaza · ~20.8 mi N
- Highway rest areaChittenango Travel Plaza · ~20.8 mi N
- Highway rest areaWarners Travel Plaza · ~25.9 mi NW
Coming out here — Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY · public land · NY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Shackham Brook as a perennial stream, ~0.8 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 11.6% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~3.8 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records tourist, museum or scenic passenger 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 81 is mapped ~6.3 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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Who holds the land at Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Morgan Hill State Forest, manager on record: NYS Department of Environmental Conservation (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
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.
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 Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
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 — Dispersed camp #2 — Onondaga County, NY
Finding water out here →Cold-weather camping →Stay limits →Reading your camp page →All field notes →