Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Falls Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.46968, -123.84483
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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 — Falls Creek · Olympic National Forest · WA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 2272140 (Falls Creek Cg), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 2272140 (Falls Creek Cg), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 16 – Sep 30. That season ends after Sep 30.
MVUM record for FR 2272140 (Falls Creek Cg): “05/16-09/30” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
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 Falls Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 212 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Falls CreekNIFC · 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 Falls Creek · Olympic National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel0 mi
- MMechanic0 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- LLaundry1 mi
- ShShower1 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- PPropane17 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- DDump25 mi
- WWater25 mi
- AAir-up33 mi
- +Urgent care33 mi
- RxPharmacy34 mi
- EVEV fast charger34 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 25-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 34-mi run (and back).
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 — Falls Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
212 ft
Ground slope
8.2% · noticeable
State
WA
Coordinates
47.46968, -123.84483
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Falls Creek · Olympic National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Quinault · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townAmanda Park · ~3.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~0.3 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~17.2 mi
- Dump station~24.7 mi
- GroceriesRain Forest Resort General Store & Gift Shop · ~0.7 mi
- HardwareWacky Warehouse · ~24.6 mi
EV charging — from Falls Creek · Olympic National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger34.1 mi straight-line S — Aberdeen, WA - Tesla Supercharger (at a municipal building) · 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 · 11 within 50 · 333 within 100 · 478 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS34.1 mi — Harbor CDJR, Aberdeen
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO34.2 mi — Walmart 2037 (Aberdeen, WA), Aberdeen
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)23.5 mi — Gull Wing Inn, Moclips, WA (at a hotel) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2022-06-14 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Lake Quinault Lodge, Quinault, 0.4 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use 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 102483 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Falls Creek · Olympic National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomFalls Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomLake Quinault Lodge · ~0.2 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGatton Creek Campground · ~0.4 mi NE · USFS
- Flush restroomWillaby · ~0.8 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Falls Creek · Olympic National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Quinault as a perennial lake or pond, 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 8.2% — 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 Falls Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Falls Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Gatton Creek Campground~0.4 mi · fee
- Willaby~0.8 mi · fee
- Campbell Tree Grove Campground~7.4 mi
- Campbell Tree Grove~7.5 mi
The unit that manages Falls Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Falls Creek are set by Olympic National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Falls Creek
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: $25 per night (2026 season, May 18 - Sep 17); the sites are tent-only and walk-to. The Olympic National Forest publishes no campground page for Falls Creek, so this comes from the recreation.gov listing the agency's own site record points at, which sits 0.028 mi from our pin. Source: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/251365.
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 Falls Creek
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Falls Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →