Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFreeOpen today
Gila Lower Box Canyon
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NM · 32.64296, -108.85855
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Can I go now? — Gila Lower Box Canyon · Bureau of Land Management · NM
Open today Year-round per the agency record.
Bureau of Land Management record: “Year-round” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gila Lower Box Canyon
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,305 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gila Lower Box CanyonNIFC · 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 Gila Lower Box Canyon · Bureau of Land Management · NM
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel15 mi
- GGrocery15 mi
- @Mail15 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- DDump22 mi
- MMechanic23 mi
- +Urgent care23 mi
- AAir-up34 mi
- LLaundry35 mi
- OOutfitter35 mi
- HHardware35 mi
- WWater43 mi
- ShShower50 mi
- RxPharmacy52 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 43-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 15 mi out.
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 — Gila Lower Box Canyon
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
4,305 ft
Ground slope
13.6% · noticeable
State
NM
Coordinates
32.64296, -108.85855
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Gila Lower Box Canyon · Bureau of Land Management · NM (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGila River · ~0.5 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townRedrock · ~7.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~15.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~22.4 mi
- GroceriesSaucedo's Super Market · ~22.4 mi
EV charging — from Gila Lower Box Canyon · Bureau of Land Management · NM — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.4 mi straight-line S — Lordsburg Chevron (Lordsburg, NM) · 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 reach3 within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 19 within 100 · 74 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)22.5 mi — Lordsburg, NM - Tesla Supercharger, Lordsburg
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO69.7 mi — Walmart 5166 (Deming, NM), Deming
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)22.2 mi — Smith Ford, Lordsburg, NM · Blink Network · 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 147649 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gila Lower Box Canyon · Bureau of Land Management · NM — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBird Sanctuary · ~19.1 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGila River Bird Area · ~19.5 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomRedrock Road - Cdnst · ~20.9 mi E · USFS
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Stop 1: Road Forks (name from original survey) · ~21.2 mi S
Coming out here — Gila Lower Box Canyon · Bureau of Land Management · NM
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Gila River as a perennial river, ~0.5 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 13.6% — 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 Gila Lower Box Canyon elsewhere
Other camps near Gila Lower Box Canyon
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Round Mountain Rockhound Area~16.0 mi
- Veterans Park (Lordsburg)~22.9 mi
Who holds the land at Gila Lower Box Canyon
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Las Cruces District Office, manager on record: Bureau of Land Management (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Gila Lower Box Canyon
Open season
Year-round
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "None. Season/Hours Open year-round. Special Rules Vehicles are limited to designated routes." https://www.blm.gov/visit/gila-lower-box-canyon
Source
Bureau of Land Management recreation data
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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "None. Season/Hours Open year-round. Special Rules Vehicles are limited to designated routes." Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/gila-lower-box-canyon (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
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 Gila Lower Box Canyon
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
- 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 — Gila Lower Box Canyon
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Getting unstuck →All field notes →