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East Fork
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.90465, -123.70607
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — East Fork · Six Rivers National Forest · CA
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0510), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at East Fork
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,558 ft.
Fire & smoke — around East ForkNIFC · 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 East Fork · Six Rivers National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- +Urgent care5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- LLaundry5 mi
- AAir-up5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- WWater8 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
- RxPharmacy20 mi
- DDump20 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out.
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 — East Fork
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,558 ft
Ground slope
14.4% · noticeable
State
CA
Coordinates
40.90465, -123.70607
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around East Fork · Six Rivers National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureEast Fork Willow Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townWillow Creek · ~4.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~8.4 mi
- FuelRenner Petroleum · ~4.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~20.3 mi
- GroceriesRay's Food Place · ~4.5 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~20.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicSix Rivers Medical Clinic · ~4.6 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~4.7 mi
EV charging — from East Fork · Six Rivers National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger4.7 mi straight-line NE — Willow Creek Maintenance Station (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-08-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach8 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 88 within 100 · 156 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.7 mi — Arcata, CA - Tesla Supercharger, Arcata
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.6 mi — RCEA EV NETWORK WILLOW CREEK · 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 chargerFree (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 218607 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around East Fork · Six Rivers National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletEast Fork · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBoise Creek · ~3.7 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLacks Creek Camp Site Vault Toilet · ~8.0 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLacks Creek Pine Ridge Vault Toilet · ~8.1 mi NW · BLM
Coming out here — East Fork · Six Rivers National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps East Fork Willow Creek as a perennial stream, 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 14.4% — 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.
- 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 East Fork elsewhere
Other camps near East Fork
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Boise Creek~3.7 mi · fee
- Horse Linto~8.7 mi
- Gray Falls Campground~11.7 mi · fee
- Burnt Ranch Cg-F~12.8 mi · fee
The unit that manages East Fork
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at East Fork are set by Six Rivers National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — East Fork
Longest rig
20 ft (Max trailer length of 20'.)
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-22: $8 per night, single site, plus $5 per vehicle per night for a second vehicle; day use is $4 per vehicle per day. Payment is exact cash or a check made out to USDA. TWO DIFFERENT PRODUCTS HERE: recreation.gov 239632 does not sell the $8 single sites at all -- it books only 'East Fork Group Site' at $25 per night for the 2026-05-26 to 2026-09-30 season. The single sites are first-come self-pay. Lower Trinity Ranger District, (530) 629-2118. Sources: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/sixrivers/recreation/east-fork-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/239632.
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 East Fork
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 — East Fork
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Hot-weather camping →Reading the aerial →All field notes →