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Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
Drive-up · Georgia Wildlife Resources Division · GA · 32.16190, -83.13293
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Nearest town: Eastman. Primitive boat-in campsite on a Georgia DNR Public Fishing Area. GA DNR's page for this PFA lists "Primitive (boat-in) campsites" and publishes no camping fee, but requires a hunting licence, fishing licence or Lands Pass for property access. Camping is closed during scheduled hunts. No potable water is claimed.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 257 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1NIFC · 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 Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1 · Georgia Wildlife Resources Division · GA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery3 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- EVEV fast charger3 mi
- RxPharmacy3 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- WWater11 mi
- LLaundry24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- DDump25 mi
- MMechanic28 mi
- PPropane39 mi
- OOutfitter57 mi
- AAir-up58 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 — Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
Access
Drive-up
Land
Georgia Wildlife Resources Division
Elevation
257 ft
Ground slope
3.8% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~0.8 mi · main line
State
GA
Coordinates
32.16190, -83.13293
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1 · Georgia Wildlife Resources Division · GA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMurphy USA · ~3.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~24.7 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~2.9 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~3.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicWilcox County Health Department · ~23.7 mi
- HardwareChas Mar Home & Garden · ~4.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.8 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1 · Georgia Wildlife Resources Division · GA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.1 mi straight-line NW — GEORGIA POWER EASTMAN DC1 · ChargePoint Network · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach6 within 25 mi · 39 within 50 · 135 within 100 · 546 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO3.1 mi — GEORGIA POWER EASTMAN DC2, Eastman
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.8 mi — Fairview Park Hospital, Dublin, GA · Blink Network · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Fairfield Inn & Suites Dublin - Tesla Destination, Dublin, 25.1 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 456661 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1 · Georgia Wildlife Resources Division · GA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaGDOT Rest Area 87 · ~24.5 mi N
- Highway rest areaGDOT Rest Area 88 · ~24.7 mi N
Coming out here — Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1 · Georgia Wildlife Resources Division · GA
- 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 3.8% — 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 ~0.8 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.
- 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 Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Dodge County Public Fishing Area, manager on record: Georgia Department of Natural Resources (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
Permit
The WMA License is no longer available or required. A basic hunting or fishing privilege that allows hunting or fishing on state lands is all that is needed to be present on designated state WMAs, state PFAs, and state shooting ranges.
Source
public land records
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
GA DNR layer values for this point, verbatim: Camping='Primitive', Access='Year Round', Maintained='Yes', Management='FM', Comments='Boat-in access only, no drive up', Name=None. Coordinate is Georgia DNR Wildlife Resources Division's own, unrounded, from the agency's public WMA feature service, layer 6 "Campgrounds" (188 points statewide, read 2026-08-16): https://services6.arcgis.com/9QlSLDqa0P1cHLhu/arcgis/rest/services/WRD_WMA_Public/FeatureServer/6 . Not derived, not geocoded, not rounded by us. SECOND SOURCE - the property's own page (https://georgiawildlife.com/dodge-county-pfa, read 2026-08-16) affirms camping: Accommodations & Facilities: "Primitive (boat-in) campsites - no camping during scheduled deer and turkey hunts". Fees & Passes: "For property access, one of the following passes is required: Hunting License, Fishing License, Lands Pass" - no camping fee printed. FEE BASIS: Georgia DNR prints a "Fees & Passes" block on every property page and none of the 135 WMA pages read this fire names a camping fee. State-managed WMAs and PFAs print "Land Access: Hunting License, Fishing License, or Lands Pass" - i.e. a licence or Lands Pass is required to BE on the property at all, camping or not. GA DNR (https://georgiawildlife.com/LicenseChanges, read 2026-08-16): "The WMA License is no longer available or required." / "A basic hunting or fishing privilege that allows hunting or fishing on state lands is all that is needed to be present on designated state WMAs". We found no first-party page printing the Lands Pass price, so no price is claimed here. This is an ABSENCE-OF-CAMPING-FEE finding, not a published "free" statement; fee=0 means "no camping charge", not "free to enter". REVIEWER: decide whether a pass-gated site should be labelled on a free-camping map. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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
On the agency's books. The land manager inventoried this site, so its existence is not in question — current conditions are. Nobody from here has camped it recently.
What we don’t know about Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
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 — Dodge County PFA Primitive Campground #1
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →How to read this page →All field notes →