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Elko County
Drive-up · public land · Elko County, NV · 41.75091, -115.57954
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Very remote! Extraordinary primitive, improvised campsite along forest road in northern Nevada. No fire ring. Grassy clearing next to a mountain stream. Requires water-crossing. Four-wheel drive required. Very private and serene. Tons of forest roads to explore in the area, however nearest gas station could be far. Recommend bringing extra gas. Enough room for a few vehicles. No cell service. Strongly recommended!
A night on record
Dave slept here on 8 May 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Elko County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,719 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Elko CountyNIFC · 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 Elko County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail5 mi
- DDump33 mi
- GGrocery33 mi
- PPropane33 mi
- FFuel33 mi
- HHardware33 mi
- +Urgent care54 mi
- EVEV fast charger55 mi
- MMechanic56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 33 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 55-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water. 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 — Elko County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,719 ft
Ground slope
9.6% · noticeable
County
Elko County, NV
Coordinates
41.75091, -115.57954
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Elko County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBruneau River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townCornwall Basin · ~2.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
- Hospital / clinicOwyhee Community Health Facility · ~30.0 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
High clearance / 4×4
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Highly recommended
EV charging — from Elko County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger55.3 mi straight-line SE — Wells, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 15 within 100 · 57 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS55.4 mi — Flying J 692, Wells
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO63.9 mi — Walmart 2402 (Elko, NV), Elko
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)62.6 mi — Gallagher Ford, Elko, NV (at a public site) · RED_E · J1772, CCS · 5 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 171467 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Elko County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBig Bend Campground · ~6.4 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletCamp Draw Trailhead · ~6.7 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPine Creek Campground · ~9.8 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLower Bluster Campground · ~10.1 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Elko County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Bruneau River as a perennial river, 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 9.6% — 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 Elko County elsewhere
Other camps near Elko County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Big Bend Campground~6.3 mi · fee
- Camp Draw Trailhead~6.7 mi
- Urdahl Campground~9.8 mi
- Pine Creek Campground~9.8 mi
The unit that manages Elko County
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Elko County are set by Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Elko County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Elko County, NV). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 8 May 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Elko County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — Elko County
Water on public land →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →Power off-grid →All field notes →