Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · CA · 34.94318, -116.75033
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,028 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Camping · public land · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- AAir-up8 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- WWater20 mi
- DDump20 mi
- PPropane41 mi
- ShShower48 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 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 Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
2,028 ft
Ground slope
12% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~1.6 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~1.4 mi · Interstate 15
State
CA
Coordinates
34.94318, -116.75033
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Dispersed Camping · public land · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townYermo · ~4.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~1.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~1.4 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelExpress Gas · ~2.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~19.7 mi
- GroceriesFood Mart · ~2.0 mi
- PharmacyWalmart Pharmacy · ~14.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicBarstow Community Hospital · ~15.5 mi
- HardwareDeels Plumbing Heating Supply Store · ~8.8 mi
EV charging — from Dispersed Camping · public land · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.9 mi straight-line SW — Yermo, CA - Sunrise Canyon Road - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 40 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach16 within 25 mi · 42 within 50 · 452 within 100 · 1290 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS5.4 mi — DC CORRIDOR EDDIES Y DC2, Yermo
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO5.4 mi — DC CORRIDOR EDDIES Y DC2, Yermo
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.4 mi — DC CORRIDOR EDDIES Y L2, Yermo, CA · 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 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 261473 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dispersed Camping · public land · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomCalico Early Man -Toilet · ~0.7 mi W · BLM
- RestroomEl Mirage Dry Lake Vc · ~15.5 mi W · BLM
- RestroomOwn Canyon Cg - Group Cxt 1 · ~16.1 mi W · BLM
- RestroomMojave National Preserve Headquarters Visitor Center · ~16.1 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — Dispersed Camping · public land · CA
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 12% — 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 ~1.6 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.
- Interstate 15 is mapped ~1.4 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.
- 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 Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- BLM public land~6.0 mi
- Rodman Mountains Wilderness~18.3 mi
- Barstow~20.9 mi
- Afton Canyon~21.1 mi · fee
Who holds the land at Dispersed Camping
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Barstow Field Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Dispersed Camping
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)
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 Camping
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 Camping
Water on public land →Hot-weather camping →Bugs & critters →Reading your camp page →All field notes →