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Faulkner Mountain Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · SC · 33.96149, -81.99151
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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 — Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 588E (Faulkner E), 0.3 mi away. 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 →
What the record says about the site — Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC
- Room for 50 parties
- Permit needed to camp
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Faulkner Mountain Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 534 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Faulkner Mountain CampgroundNIFC · 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 Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery13 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- WWater16 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- AAir-up17 mi
- ShShower21 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
- DDump28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — Faulkner Mountain Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
534 ft
Ground slope
4.8% · gentle
State
SC
Coordinates
33.96149, -81.99151
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLittle Mountain Creek · ~0.9 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townPittsburg · ~1.9 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMarathon · ~12.9 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~17.3 mi
- Dump station~27.5 mi
- GroceriesKJ's Market (IGA) · ~12.6 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~12.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicEdgefield County Healthcare · ~13.1 mi
- HardwareLakelands Ace Hardware · ~19.8 mi
EV charging — from Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.1 mi straight-line S — Herlong Ford DCFC, Edgefield, SC · Blink Network · CCS · 2 fast ports 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 · 199 within 100 · 673 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)21.7 mi — Greenwood, SC - Tesla Supercharger, Greenwood
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO30.2 mi — GEORGIA POWER LINCOLNTON DC2, Lincolnton
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.4 mi — 302 State Park Road, Ninety Six, SC (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · 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 376260 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomVisitor Center · ~12.9 mi N · NPS
- Highway rest areaAiken Truck Parking Area · ~26.7 mi SE
- Highway rest areaAiken Truck Parking Area · ~26.8 mi SE
- Highway rest areaNorth Augusta Welcome Center · ~29.4 mi S
Coming out here — Faulkner Mountain Campground · Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests · SC
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Little Mountain Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.9 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 4.8% — 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.
- 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 Faulkner Mountain Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Faulkner Mountain Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Boggy Campground~5.0 mi
- Cyper Creek~9.1 mi · fee
- Key Bridge~14.4 mi
- Lick Fork Lake~16.1 mi · fee
The unit that manages Faulkner Mountain Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Faulkner Mountain Campground are set by Francis Marion and Sumter National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Faulkner Mountain Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Faulkner Mountain Campground
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 — Faulkner Mountain Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →How to read this page →All field notes →