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Granger Pond Camping Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ME · 43.95633, -70.78245
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Granger Pond Camping Area · U.S. Forest Service · ME
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Granger Pond Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 692 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Granger Pond Camping AreaNIFC · 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 Granger Pond Camping Area · U.S. Forest Service · ME
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- EVEV fast charger6 mi
- RxPharmacy9 mi
- MMechanic9 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- DDump12 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- WWater18 mi
- PPropane20 mi
- AAir-up28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, 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 — Granger Pond Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
692 ft
Ground slope
14.7% · noticeable
State
ME
Coordinates
43.95633, -70.78245
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Granger Pond Camping Area · U.S. Forest Service · ME (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGranger Pond · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townDenmark · ~1.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~1.3 mi
- Propane / LPGAirgas · ~29.1 mi
- Dump station~12.0 mi
- GroceriesBrownfield Country Market · ~5.1 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~10.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicBridgton Hospital · ~7.1 mi
- HardwareCornish Hardware · ~10.4 mi
EV charging — from Granger Pond Camping Area · U.S. Forest Service · ME — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.5 mi straight-line NE — NOURIA BRIDGTON 1 · ChargePoint Network · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach13 within 25 mi · 76 within 50 · 257 within 100 · 753 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.0 mi — North Conway, NH - Tesla Supercharger, North Conway
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO18.7 mi — DC CORRIDOR WINDHAM DC1, Windham
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.3 mi — SWTCH Energy Inc., Bridgton, ME (at a parking lot) · SWTCH · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, no confirmation date on the record · 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 390611 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Granger Pond Camping Area · U.S. Forest Service · ME — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomKearsarge North Trail Parking Lot · ~18.2 mi NW · USFS
- Highway rest areaNorth Conway Rest Area · ~19.6 mi NW
- RestroomMoat Mtn Mineral Site Trailhead · ~19.8 mi W · USFS
- RestroomSouth Moat Mtn. Trail Parking Lot · ~20.1 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Granger Pond Camping Area · U.S. Forest Service · ME
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Granger Pond as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 14.7% — 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.
- 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 Granger Pond Camping Area elsewhere
Other camps near Granger Pond Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Province Pond Shelter~17.9 mi
- Mountain Pond Shelter~20.8 mi
- White Ledge~21.5 mi · fee
- Covered Bridge~22.6 mi · fee
How we know this — Granger Pond Camping Area
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.
Listed website
grangerpond.com — the page the mapper cited for this site. Not a land manager; read it as one more opinion.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Granger Pond Camping Area
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 — Granger Pond Camping Area
Camping near a reservoir →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →