Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFree
Eucalyptus Dispersed
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · AZ · 33.62932, -110.94393
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. 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 — Eucalyptus Dispersed · Tonto National Forest · AZ
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 0312), 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 Eucalyptus Dispersed
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,178 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Eucalyptus DispersedNIFC · 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 Eucalyptus Dispersed · Tonto National Forest · AZ
▲ 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
- WWater11 mi
- @Mail16 mi
- DDump16 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- AAir-up18 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- HHardware20 mi
- ShShower28 mi
- +Urgent care35 mi
- RxPharmacy35 mi
- OOutfitter38 mi
- PPropane51 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 — Eucalyptus Dispersed
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
2,178 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
State
AZ
Coordinates
33.62932, -110.94393
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Eucalyptus Dispersed · Tonto National Forest · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSalt River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townRock House · ~0.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelShell · ~16.4 mi
- Propane / LPGLPG · ~16.4 mi
- Dump station~16.3 mi · fee · She’ll
- GroceriesSpring Creek Store · ~4.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicCobre Valley Regional Medical Center · ~16.8 mi
EV charging — from Eucalyptus Dispersed · Tonto National Forest · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.9 mi straight-line SE — APS - Globe (Globe, AZ) · Electrify America · CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 21 within 50 · 140 within 100 · 180 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)39.3 mi — Walmart EV Charging, Apache Junction
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.9 mi — GPM INVESTMENTS 4600 DC1, Mesa
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.8 mi — Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center, Globe, AZ (at a hospital) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-11-06 · 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 250746 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Eucalyptus Dispersed · Tonto National Forest · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletEucalyptus Wash · ~0.3 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHz Wash · ~0.6 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDiversion Dam North · ~0.6 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSchoolhouse Cg · ~4.1 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Eucalyptus Dispersed · Tonto National Forest · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Salt River as a perennial river, ~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 1.4% — flat. 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 Eucalyptus Dispersed elsewhere
Other camps near Eucalyptus Dispersed
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- HZ Wash Dispersed~0.5 mi
- Diversion Dam Dispersed~0.7 mi
- EADS Wash Dispersed~1.1 mi
- Raftzer Take-Out Dispersed~1.2 mi
The unit that manages Eucalyptus Dispersed
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Eucalyptus Dispersed are set by Tonto National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Eucalyptus Dispersed
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Eucalyptus Dispersed
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 — Eucalyptus Dispersed
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →