Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
Drive-up · public land · CA · 36.05595, -121.58952
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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 Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 248 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Free Camping. Sunset - SunriseNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Camping. Sunset - Sunrise · public land · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater5 mi
- FFuel15 mi
- GGrocery15 mi
- EVEV fast charger15 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- @Mail16 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- DDump19 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- MMechanic27 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- AAir-up33 mi
- OOutfitter36 mi
- PPropane41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 15 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 — Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
248 ft
Ground slope
11.3% · noticeable
State
CA
Coordinates
36.05595, -121.58952
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise · public land · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePacific Ocean · ~0.1 mi · USGS: ocean, no flow class
- Also mapped (OSM)Big Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLucia · ~3.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.0 mi
- FuelFuel · ~14.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~18.9 mi
- GroceriesGorda General Store · ~14.8 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~29.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicAgile Occupational Medicine · ~27.2 mi
- HardwareSoledad Hardware & Lbr Inc · ~29.4 mi
EV charging — from Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise · public land · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.2 mi straight-line NW — Big Sur, CA - Ventana - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 50 within 50 · 289 within 100 · 885 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS27.5 mi — DC CORRIDOR KC SHOPS DC1, King City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO27.5 mi — DC CORRIDOR KC SHOPS DC1, King City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.5 mi — DC CORRIDOR KC SHOPS L2, King City, CA · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Esalen Institute - Tesla Destination, Big Sur, 5.4 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · 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 149296 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise · public land · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise · public land · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pacific Ocean as an ocean (no flow class in the record), ~0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 11.3% — noticeable. 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 Camping. Sunset - Sunrise elsewhere
Other camps near Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Kirk Creek~7.0 mi · fee
- Escondido Campground~7.9 mi
- Memorial Park~8.1 mi · fee
- ABC Camp~9.2 mi
How we know this — Free Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
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 Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
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 Camping. Sunset - Sunrise
Finding water out here →Hot-weather camping →Bugs & critters →How to read this page →All field notes →