Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Dispersed Camping
OHV / 4×4 · public land · WA · 46.80364, -120.77195
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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.
What the record says about the site — Dispersed Camping · public land · WA
- Basic site, no services
- Tent camping
- No drinking water — carry your own
- No showers
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 Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,967 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Camping · public land · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery4 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- PPropane6 mi
- AAir-up6 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- +Urgent care6 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- WWater14 mi
- OOutfitter15 mi
- RxPharmacy16 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- DDump17 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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
OHV / 4×4
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
3,967 ft
Ground slope
12.2% · noticeable
State
WA
Coordinates
46.80364, -120.77195
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Dispersed Camping · public land · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBig Burn Canyon (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townWenas · ~4.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelShell · ~5.9 mi
- Propane / LPGAmerigas · ~16.3 mi
- Dump station~17.1 mi
- GroceriesStagecoach RV Park · ~4.5 mi
- PharmacyWhole Health Pharmacy · ~16.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicNaches Medical Clinic · ~6.1 mi
- HardwareMatheus Lumber · ~17.0 mi
EV charging — from Dispersed Camping · public land · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.5 mi straight-line SE — Naches · FLO · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach22 within 25 mi · 36 within 50 · 309 within 100 · 596 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)16.2 mi — Ellensburg, WA Rechargery Relay @ Circle K - Canyon Road, Ellensburg
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.5 mi — Naches · FLO · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port 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 227563 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dispersed Camping · public land · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletWindy Point · ~10.0 mi SW · USFS
- Portable toiletUpper Rock Creek Sno-Park · ~11.7 mi NW · USFS
- Portable toiletNile Sno-Park · ~11.8 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCottonwood · ~14.0 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Dispersed Camping · public land · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: Big Burn Canyon (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 12.2% — 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.
- 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.
- Dispersed Camping~0.5 mi
- Windy Point~10.0 mi · fee
- Cottonwood Campground~14.0 mi · fee
- Yakima River Canyon~14.3 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 Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife Trust Land, manager on record: Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife (state). 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
likely OHV (only a rough 4wd track in) — confirm
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 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