Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Giant White Pine Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 47.00971, -116.67721
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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 — Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 3307 (Giant White Pine Cmpgrd), 80 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 3307 (Giant White Pine Cmpgrd), 80 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Jun 1 – Sep 30. That season ends after Sep 30.
MVUM record for FR 3307 (Giant White Pine Cmpgrd): “06/01-09/30” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; 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 — Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
- Tent camping
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 Giant White Pine Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,794 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Giant White Pine CampgroundNIFC · 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 Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail7 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- WWater13 mi
- PPropane15 mi
- EVEV fast charger16 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- DDump24 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- MMechanic24 mi
- OOutfitter25 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- ShShower41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Giant White Pine Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,794 ft
Ground slope
14.2% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~6.9 mi · other track
State
ID
Coordinates
47.00971, -116.67721
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMannering Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townHarvard · ~6.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.9 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~12.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~23.8 mi
- GroceriesGrange Supply Convenience store · ~12.1 mi
- PharmacyTekoa Pharmacy · ~23.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicGritman Medical Center · ~24.7 mi
- HardwareDeary Lawn, Saw, and Hardware · ~15.6 mi
EV charging — from Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.5 mi straight-line S — (The Pie Safe) - Deary, ID - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-04-21 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 71 within 100 · 142 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO36.1 mi — Rosalia, Rosalia
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)20.0 mi — City of Palouse - Heritage Park · FLO · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 449187 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGiant White Pine Trailhead · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGiant White Pine Campground · at this camp · USFS
- Portable toiletPalouse Divide Cross Country Ski Trailhead · ~3.9 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLaird Park Campground · ~4.8 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Giant White Pine Campground · Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Mannering Creek as a perennial stream, under 0.1 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 14.2% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Giant White Pine Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Giant White Pine Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Pal1960Rd_02~2.8 mi
- Pal1960Rd_01~3.7 mi
- Pal1427Rd-002~3.7 mi
- Pal4710Rd-001~4.0 mi
The unit that manages Giant White Pine Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Giant White Pine Campground are set by Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Giant White Pine 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.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | Fee 2026-09-28: $12 per night, $2 per extra vehicle. CLOSED FOR 2026: the forest page states 'The Giant White Pine Campground will be closed in 2026 for rehabilitation following the White Pine Fire of 2025.' No recreation.gov listing. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r01/nezperce-clearwater/recreation/giant-white-pine-campground (page last updated July 21, 2026; the page prints no coordinates, so it was matched by exact camp name on the managing forest's own site; the USFS recreation-site record GIANT WHITE PINE CAMPGROUND, 0.089 mi from this pin, agrees at $12 plus $2: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=site_name%3D%27GIANT+WHITE+PINE+CAMPGROUND%27&outFields=*&returnGeometry=false&f=json).
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 Giant White Pine 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.
- 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 — Giant White Pine Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Off-grid communication →All field notes →