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Gentry Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · AZ · 34.30138, -110.71298
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 — Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0301), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 — Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ
- Reservations accepted, walk-ins too
- Room for 5 parties
- Tent camping
- No trailers or RVs
- No drinking water — carry your own
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 Gentry Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,726 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gentry CampgroundNIFC · 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 Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel4 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- WWater6 mi
- DDump7 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- AAir-up11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- EVEV fast charger35 mi
- LLaundry39 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 35-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 — Gentry Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,726 ft
Ground slope
1.9% · flat
State
AZ
Coordinates
34.30138, -110.71298
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCanyon Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: ephemeral stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Gentry Canyon Stream (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townForest Lakes Estates · ~5.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.4 mi
- FuelFuel · ~4.1 mi
- Propane / LPGPinnacle Propane · ~11.2 mi
- Dump station~6.7 mi
- GroceriesForest Lakes General Store · ~5.5 mi
- PharmacyWhite Mountain Pharmacy · ~11.1 mi
EV charging — from Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger34.8 mi straight-line W — APS - Payson (Payson, AZ) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 6 within 50 · 101 within 100 · 173 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)35.0 mi — Payson, AZ - Tesla Supercharger, Payson
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO51.2 mi — Walmart 1328 (Winslow, AZ), Winslow
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)38.1 mi — Best Western Paint Pony Lodge, Show Low, AZ · CHARGELAB · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 238674 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomGentry Lo · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGentry Cg · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomHangman Trailhead · ~1.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBlack Canyon Rim Cg · ~1.8 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Gentry Campground · Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Canyon Creek as an ephemeral stream, ~0.2 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as ephemeral — it carries water only during and right after storms or snowmelt. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.9% — 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 Gentry Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Gentry Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Black Canyon Rim Campground~1.7 mi
- Brookbank~2.8 mi
- Nelson Lake~2.8 mi
- Upper Canyon Creek Campground~5.2 mi
The unit that manages Gentry Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Gentry Campground are set by Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Gentry Campground
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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
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 Gentry Campground
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 — Gentry Campground
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Leave no trace →All field notes →