Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Free camp
Drive-up · public land · AK · 65.32849, -148.31000
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Free camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 465 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Free 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 Free camp · public land · AK
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery12 mi
- FFuel28 mi
- OOutfitter32 mi
- @Mail34 mi
- LLaundry35 mi
- +Urgent care36 mi
- DDump36 mi
- MMechanic36 mi
- ShShower36 mi
- HHardware37 mi
- AAir-up37 mi
- EVEV fast charger37 mi
- WWater38 mi
- RxPharmacy38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 38-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 37-mi run (and back).
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 — Free camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
465 ft
Ground slope
10% · noticeable
State
AK
Coordinates
65.32849, -148.31000
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Free camp · public land · AK (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTatalina River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townLivengood · ~15.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelHilltop Truck Stop · ~28.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesWildwood General Store · ~4.0 mi
EV charging — from Free camp · public land · AK — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger36.9 mi straight-line SE — Fairbanks, AK - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 7 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-21 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 3 within 100 · 8 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS37.1 mi — Golden Valley Electric Fairbanks, Fairbanks
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO37.1 mi — Golden Valley Electric Fairbanks, Fairbanks
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)103.1 mi — Three Bears Healy (at a fuel reseller) · Non-Networked · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-02-12 · 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 447391 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Free camp · public land · AK — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletFred Blixt Cabin Vault Toilet · ~8.6 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletColorado Creek Trailhead Vault Toilet · ~9.9 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletSummit Trail Shelter Pit Outhouse · ~10.6 mi E · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWickersham Dome Trailhead Vault Toilet · ~12.4 mi SE · BLM
Coming out here — Free camp · public land · AK
- Surface water mapped nearby: Tatalina River (river). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 10% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (5 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 Free camp elsewhere
Other camps near Free camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Fossil Creek Trail~16.8 mi
Who holds the land at Free camp
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as State Patented, manager on record: a state department of natural resources. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Free 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)
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Free 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.
- 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