Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
Drive-up · public land · CA · 37.49135, -119.62441
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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.
What the record says about the site — Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite · Sierra National Forest · CA
- First come, first served
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 Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,277 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Goat Meadow Dispersed CampsiteNIFC · 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 Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite · Sierra National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater0 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- EVEV fast charger1 mi
- DDump4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- OOutfitter9 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- MMechanic18 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- AAir-up38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,277 ft
Ground slope
3.4% · gentle
State
CA
Coordinates
37.49135, -119.62441
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite · Sierra National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBig Creek · ~0.5 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Rainier Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townFish Camp · ~1.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.5 mi
- FuelChevron · ~3.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~3.6 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~9.3 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~11.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicAdventist Health Medical Office - Oakhurst · ~11.5 mi
- HardwareCoast Hardware · ~18.7 mi
EV charging — from Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite · Sierra National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.4 mi straight-line SW — Fish Camp, CA - 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 reach8 within 25 mi · 65 within 50 · 210 within 100 · 1051 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS11.2 mi — DC CORRIDOR OAKHURST DC2, Oakhurst
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO11.2 mi — DC CORRIDOR OAKHURST DC2, Oakhurst
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.7 mi — Wawona Store and Post Office - P2, Yosemite Valley, CA (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · J1772 · 24 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Explorer Cabins at Tenaya Lodge at Yosemite, Fish Camp, 1.2 mi · J1772 · hours: For guest use 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 102020 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite · Sierra National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSummerdale · ~0.5 mi W · USFS
- RestroomWaB 4650 Mariposa Grove Picnic Area Vault Toilet · ~0.7 mi N · NPS
- RestroomWaB 4702 Swinging Bridge Vault Toilet · ~1.0 mi NE · NPS
- RestroomWaB SE 4606 South Entrance Restroom · ~1.1 mi N · NPS
Coming out here — Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite · Sierra National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Big Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 3.4% — gentle. 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 Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite elsewhere
Other camps near Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Summerdale~0.5 mi · fee
- Big Sandy~2.8 mi · fee
- Summit Camp~4.0 mi
- Boggy Meadow 1~4.6 mi
The unit that manages Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite are set by Sierra National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
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)
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.
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 Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
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 — Goat Meadow Dispersed Campsite
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Stay limits →How to read this page →All field notes →