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Gold Butte National Monument
Drive-up · public land · Clark County, NV · 36.45183, -114.21524
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A wall of red rock with scattered palm trees in Gold Butte National Monument. Very demanding four-wheel drive route. Poor cell service. Enough room for multiple vehicles. Picturesque and a popular destination for ATVs. A few fire circles. Not often used for camping but a unique experience. Recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 7 November 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gold Butte National Monument
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,819 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gold Butte National MonumentNIFC · 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 Gold Butte National Monument · public land · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery14 mi
- WWater14 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- DDump19 mi
- ShShower19 mi
- EVEV fast charger25 mi
- RxPharmacy25 mi
- PPropane48 mi
- AAir-up53 mi
- OOutfitter53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 14 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 — Gold Butte National Monument
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
1,819 ft
Ground slope
6.4% · gentle
County
Clark County, NV
Coordinates
36.45183, -114.21524
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Gold Butte National Monument · public land · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMud Wash · ~0.5 mi · USGS: ephemeral wash
- Also mapped (OSM)Mud Wash Road (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townStewarts Point · ~11.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~23.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~18.7 mi
- GroceriesLin's Fresh Market · ~13.9 mi
- PharmacyDeep Roots Harvest · ~25.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicQuick Care · ~18.4 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
High clearance / 4×4
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Gold Butte National Monument · public land · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.6 mi straight-line NW — Moapa, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 reach1 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 101 within 100 · 129 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS25.1 mi — Mesquite, NV Rechargery Relay - W Mesquite Blvd, Mesquite
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO25.3 mi — Walmart 3847 (Mesquite, NV), Mesquite
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)46.7 mi — Henderson, NV - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 12 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Hoover Dam Lodge Hotel & Casino - Tesla Destination, Boulder City, 44.0 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas 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 405693 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gold Butte National Monument · public land · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomOB St Thomas Vault Toilet 655 · ~9.5 mi W · NPS
- RestroomEB Stewarts Point Cove Vault Toilet 630 · ~11.4 mi SW · NPS
- RestroomEB Rogers Spring Vault Toilet 628 · ~13.7 mi W · NPS
- Vault / pit toiletPakoon Spring Parking- Vault Toilet · ~14.2 mi E · BLM
Coming out here — Gold Butte National Monument · public land · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Mud Wash as an ephemeral wash, ~0.5 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 6.4% — 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 Gold Butte National Monument elsewhere
Other camps near Gold Butte National Monument
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Echo Bay Campground~15.8 mi · fee
- BLM dispersed camp — Clark County, NV~16.3 mi
- Gold Butte Back Country Byway~19.3 mi
Who holds the land at Gold Butte National Monument
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Las Vegas Field 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 — Gold Butte National Monument
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Clark County, NV). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 7 November 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Gold Butte National Monument
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — Gold Butte National Monument
Finding water out here →Hot-weather camping →Bugs & critters →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →