Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · WA · 47.38147, -121.26170
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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 2,565 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 · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater2 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- OOutfitter8 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- AAir-up10 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- DDump19 mi
- RxPharmacy19 mi
- HHardware19 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- PPropane42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 8 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
2,565 ft
Ground slope
7.6% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~7.4 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~5.0 mi · Interstate 90
State
WA
Coordinates
47.38147, -121.26170
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBox Canyon Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townHyak · ~6.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~5.0 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~1.8 mi
- FuelLast Resort · ~11.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Sanitation Station · ~18.8 mi
- GroceriesLaconia · ~7.7 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~19.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicRaging River Recovery Center · ~27.9 mi
- HardwareGraceland Portable Buildings · ~23.2 mi
EV charging — from Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.6 mi straight-line W — WCEH Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass, WA · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach8 within 25 mi · 101 within 50 · 369 within 100 · 574 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.3 mi — Cle Elum, WA - West Davis Street - Tesla Supercharger, Cle Elum
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.9 mi — Silver Fir Lodge, Snoqualmie Pass, WA (at a recreation facility) · Non-Networked · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 9 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-06-12 · 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 73433 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletRachel Lake · ~1.7 mi NW · USFS
- Flush restroomKachess · ~1.9 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPete Lake · ~5.0 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletEast Kachess · ~5.1 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Box Canyon Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 7.6% — gentle. 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 ~7.4 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 90 is mapped ~5.0 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.
- Dispersed Camping~1.2 mi
- Dispersed Camping~1.5 mi
- Kachess~1.9 mi · fee
- East Kachess Group Site~5.2 mi
The unit that manages Dispersed Camping
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Dispersed Camping are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
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
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Stay limits →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →