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Goat Rock Primitive Campground
Hike-in · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 39.13602, -123.03868
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. 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 Goat Rock Primitive Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,082 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Goat Rock Primitive 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 Goat Rock Primitive Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater1 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- ShShower7 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- HHardware8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- +Urgent care9 mi
- LLaundry9 mi
- AAir-up9 mi
- OOutfitter9 mi
- DDump14 mi
- PPropane49 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 7 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 Rock Primitive Campground
Access
Hike-in
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
2,082 ft
Ground slope
10.1% · noticeable
Nearest highway
~8.4 mi · US Hwy 101
State
CA
Coordinates
39.13602, -123.03868
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Getting in
Park at nearest parking · ~2.41 mi in a straight line (trail will be longer)
Nearby & resupply — around Goat Rock Primitive Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBlack Oak Springs Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waterHorse Trough · ~1.4 mi
- FuelChevron · ~6.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~14.5 mi
- GroceriesTalmage Market · ~6.9 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~8.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicDialysis Clinic · ~8.6 mi
- HardwareFriedman's · ~8.5 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~8.4 mi · US Hwy 101
EV charging — from Goat Rock Primitive Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.7 mi straight-line E — Upper Lake, CA - Tesla Supercharger (at a rest stop) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach10 within 25 mi · 28 within 50 · 369 within 100 · 962 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS9.9 mi — Thurston Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram, Ukiah
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO11.1 mi — Brutacao Family Vineyards - Hopland, Hopland
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.2 mi — Tallman Hotel and Blue Wing Restaurant - Tesla Destination, Upper Lake, CA (at a hotel) · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- 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 368021 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Goat Rock Primitive Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomCow Mtn -Glen Eden Equestrian -Toilet 10 · ~2.4 mi E · BLM
- RestroomCow Mtn -Oakwood Spring -Toilet · ~2.6 mi SW · BLM
- RestroomCow Mtn - Mayacmas - Toilet 10 Replacement · ~3.2 mi NW · BLM
- RestroomCow Mtn -Westside Ohv -Toilet · ~3.6 mi SW · BLM
Coming out here — Goat Rock Primitive Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Black Oak Springs 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 10.1% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- US Hwy 101 is mapped ~8.4 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Rock Primitive Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Goat Rock Primitive Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- North Cow Mountain Recreation Area~2.2 mi
- Mayacmas Campground~3.3 mi
- Red Mountain Campground~4.8 mi
- South Willow Creek Camp~5.1 mi
The unit that manages Goat Rock Primitive Campground
Goat Rock Primitive Campground is in the Ukiah Field Office, Central California District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Goat Rock Primitive 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: hike (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
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 Goat Rock Primitive 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 — Goat Rock Primitive Campground
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