Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT
Hike-in · public land · Lincoln County, MT · 47.97876, -115.52015
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What the record says about the site — Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT · Kootenai National Forest · MT
- 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 — Lincoln County, MT
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,746 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MTNIFC · 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 Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT · Kootenai National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- FFuel19 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- OOutfitter40 mi
- EVEV fast charger41 mi
- DDump42 mi
- WWater47 mi
- ShShower57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 47-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 41-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 — Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT
Access
Hike-in
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,746 ft
Ground slope
15.9% · steep
Nearest rail line
~8.6 mi · main line
County
Lincoln County, MT
Coordinates
47.97876, -115.52015
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Getting in
Park at Baree Lake Trailhead · ~2.27 mi in a straight line (trail will be longer)
Nearby & resupply — around Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT · Kootenai National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTrail Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Bear Lakes (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townTuscor · ~9.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~18.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesMain Street General Store · ~12.1 mi
- PharmacyNorthwest CHC Pharmacy (Highway 2) · ~27.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicFamily Health and Wellness · ~28.3 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~28.4 mi
EV charging — from Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT · Kootenai National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger41.2 mi straight-line SW — 76 Station - Tesla Supercharger, Kellogg, ID (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 59 within 100 · 89 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS43.1 mi — Walmart 4249 (Smelterville, ID), Smelterville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.1 mi — Walmart 4249 (Smelterville, ID), Smelterville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)52.7 mi — Best Western Plus, Ponderay, ID (at a hotel) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-11-13 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — City of Sandpoint - Tesla Destination, Sandpoint, 51.4 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
Level 2, restricted access — Kootenai River Outfitters Lodge and Cabins, Troy, 26.7 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guests use only · AFDC lists it “Free” - Pricing at the fast charger$0.55 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 463501 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT · Kootenai National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLake Creek · ~4.4 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletOscar Miller · ~4.8 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHoward Lake · ~8.5 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletNorth Shore · ~9.6 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT · Kootenai National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Trail Creek as a perennial lake or pond, under 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 15.9% — steep. 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 ~8.6 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT elsewhere
Other camps near Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Dispersed camp #3 — Lincoln County, MT~0.4 mi
- Dispersed camp #2 — Lincoln County, MT~1.5 mi
- Rd 148 Site 5~2.3 mi
- Rd 148 Site 6~2.4 mi
The unit that manages Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT are set by Kootenai National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Chicago Ridge at 5,700 ft, about 10 miles 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 — Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT
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: hike (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 Dispersed camp — Lincoln County, MT
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 — Lincoln County, MT
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →Camping with a dog →All field notes →