Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Free camp site
OHV / 4×4 · public land · WY · 43.82304, -110.38128
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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 site
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,895 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Free camp siteNIFC · 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 site · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- WWater12 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- DDump14 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
- AAir-up29 mi
- RxPharmacy30 mi
- HHardware30 mi
- EVEV fast charger31 mi
- MMechanic32 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 31-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 site
Access
OHV / 4×4
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
6,895 ft
Ground slope
19.3% · steep
State
WY
Coordinates
43.82304, -110.38128
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Free camp site · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBuffalo Fork · ~0.7 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~1.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~14.3 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~1.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicTeton Village Clinic · ~27.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Free camp site · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger30.6 mi straight-line SW — TOWN OF JACKSON GARAGE DC #2 · 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 · 5 within 50 · 22 within 100 · 52 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)32.3 mi — Jackson, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Jackson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)23.3 mi — Jackson Hole Airport (at an airport) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 8 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-14 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Signal Mountain Lodge, Moran, 11.5 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; Only available during summer · 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 225937 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Free camp site · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletHatchet Campground · ~1.3 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHistoric Ranger Station Interpretive Site · ~1.5 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBox Cr Cg · ~5.1 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTurpin Meadow Campground · ~6.1 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Free camp site · Bridger-Teton National Forest · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Buffalo Fork as a perennial stream, ~0.7 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 19.3% — steep. 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.
- 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 site elsewhere
Other camps near Free camp site
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Hatchet Campground~1.3 mi · fee
- Buffalo Valley 10~1.7 mi
- Buffalo Valley 7~1.7 mi
- Buffalo Valley 3~1.8 mi
The unit that manages Free camp site
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Free camp site are set by Bridger-Teton National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Base Camp at 7,040 ft, about 9 miles away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Free camp site
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
likely OHV (only a rough 4wd track in) — confirm
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 site
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 — Free camp site
Winter vs summer roads →Water on public land →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →