Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Fourth of July Camp
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 45.79966, -122.11871
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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 · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 4100501, 0.2 mi from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 4100501, 0.2 mi from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 4100501: “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 →
What the record says about the site — Fourth of July Camp · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA
- Basic site, no services
- Tent camping
- No trailers or RVs
- No showers
- Listed as a backcountry site
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 Fourth of July Camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,344 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 · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater12 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- GGrocery13 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- DDump13 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- MMechanic15 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- PPropane21 mi
- AAir-up22 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 13 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 — Fourth of July Camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,344 ft
Ground slope
2.2% · flat
State
WA
Coordinates
45.79966, -122.11871
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Fourth of July Camp · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~13.0 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~21.1 mi
- Dump stationStevenson Trailer Sewage Dump Station · ~13.2 mi
- GroceriesFood Mart · ~13.0 mi
- PharmacyWind River Pharmacy · ~13.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicThe Vancouver Clinic · ~19.5 mi
- HardwareStihl · ~13.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Fourth of July Camp · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger13.5 mi straight-line SE — Stevenson Library · FLO · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach23 within 25 mi · 157 within 50 · 319 within 100 · 629 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)14.2 mi — Thunder Island Brewing - Charli Charging, Cascade Locks
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.9 mi — Skamania Lodge, Stevenson, WA · FLO · J1772 · 8 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 390186 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Fourth of July Camp · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSunset Falls Cg · ~6.5 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGovernment Mineral Springs Cg · ~8.2 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomGovernment Mineral Springs Gs · ~8.3 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~8.5 mi NE · FWS
Coming out here — Fourth of July Camp · Gifford Pinchot National Forest · WA
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 2.2% — 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.
- 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.
- Lookout Mountain Camp~1.1 mi
- Spring Camp~1.7 mi
- Doughgob Camp~2.0 mi
- Mowich Camp~3.7 mi
The unit that manages Fourth of July Camp
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Fourth of July Camp are set by Gifford Pinchot National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Fourth of July Camp
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 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
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Getting unstuck →All field notes →