Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Fourth Of July Camp
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 46.66389, -115.37927
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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 — Fourth Of July Camp · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 250-Q (Fisher), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 250-Q (Fisher), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 250-Q (Fisher): “01/01-12/31” 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 Fourth Of July Camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,451 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Fourth Of July CampNIFC · 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 Fourth Of July Camp · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater22 mi
- FFuel33 mi
- GGrocery33 mi
- @Mail39 mi
- DDump41 mi
- HHardware43 mi
- EVEV fast charger43 mi
- RxPharmacy43 mi
- PPropane56 mi
- +Urgent care58 mi
- LLaundry60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 22-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 33 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 43-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 — Fourth Of July Camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,451 ft
Ground slope
5.9% · gentle
State
ID
Coordinates
46.66389, -115.37927
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Fourth Of July Camp · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Fork Clearwater River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Fourth of July Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townIsabella Landing · ~17.5 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
- 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.
EV charging — from Fourth Of July Camp · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger43.1 mi straight-line SW — CLRWTR RVR CSNO IT'SEYEYECASINO, Kamiah, ID · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 27 within 100 · 99 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)43.2 mi — Superior, MT - Tesla Supercharger, Superior
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)33.1 mi — Lochsa Lodge, Powell, ID (at a hotel) · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-08-15 · hours: 8am-9pm 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 452675 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Fourth Of July Camp · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletFourth Of July Camp · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletNoe Creek Campground · ~1.6 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWeitas Campground · ~3.2 mi SW · USFS
- Flush restroomKelly Forks Cabin Rental · ~6.8 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Fourth Of July Camp · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Fork Clearwater 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 5.9% — 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 Fourth Of July Camp elsewhere
Other camps near Fourth Of July Camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- USFS dispersed camp — ID #764~0.6 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — ID #638~0.9 mi
- Fawn Creek Camp~1.2 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — ID #530~1.4 mi
The unit that manages Fourth Of July Camp
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Fourth Of July Camp are set by Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Cool Creek at 6,320 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 3,869 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Fourth Of July Camp
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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review || Water 2026-08-24 (nightshift fire 120): USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0), extract cached locally as data\_mt_water_edw.json, objectid 2368762, site "FOURTH OF JULY CAMP" (recreation area "Fourth Of July Camp"), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No drinking water is available". Matched to this camp on coordinates (0.0007 mi from the agency point). Agency record only -- not field-verified, and no natural water here is claimed to be potable.
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 Fourth Of July Camp
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 — Fourth Of July Camp
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Off-grid communication →All field notes →