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Green Mountain National Forest
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · Rutland County, VT · 43.77922, -72.85467
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This is a large clearing at the entrance to a forest road in Green Mountain National Forest, near Pittsfield, Vermont. Not a proper campsite. Likely a snowmobile staging area. Winter maintenance ends at this point, and there is a farmhouse within eyeshot a short distance down the road. Supposedly more campsites down the forest road accessible during the warm season. No cell service. Felt safe. Only recommended if necessary.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 13 December 2017. 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Green Mountain National Forest · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · VT
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 Green Mountain National Forest
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,324 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Green Mountain National ForestNIFC · 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 Green Mountain National Forest · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · VT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- WWater7 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- AAir-up20 mi
- OOutfitter20 mi
- DDump34 mi
- PPropane46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Green Mountain National Forest
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
1,324 ft
Ground slope
9.3% · noticeable
County
Rutland County, VT
Coordinates
43.77922, -72.85467
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Green Mountain National Forest · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · VT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWest Branch Tweed River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townPittsfield · ~2.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~7.4 mi
- FuelIrving · ~7.0 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas · ~27.6 mi
- GroceriesSwiss Farm Market · ~2.1 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~11.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicClinic · ~12.3 mi
- HardwareMills Hardware · ~11.6 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
No
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Green Mountain National Forest · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · VT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger7.1 mi straight-line N — Green Mountain Power - Rochester · FLO · CHAdeMO, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach14 within 25 mi · 81 within 50 · 298 within 100 · 964 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)12.3 mi — Rutland, VT - Tesla Supercharger, Rutland
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.1 mi — Killington Ski Resort (Pico Mountain) - Tesla Destination (at a recreation facility) · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 9 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 302262 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Green Mountain National Forest · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · VT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomChittenden Bk Trail-Cpgd · ~4.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletChittenden Brook · ~4.2 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLefferts Pond · ~4.8 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomGMC Stony Brook Shelter Privy · ~8.7 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Green Mountain National Forest · Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests · VT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps West Branch Tweed River as a perennial river, ~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 9.3% — 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 Green Mountain National Forest elsewhere
Other camps near Green Mountain National Forest
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Chittenden Brook~4.2 mi · fee
- Rolston Rest Shelter~4.6 mi
- Sunrise Shelter~5.5 mi
- Tucker-Johnson Shelter~6.9 mi
The unit that manages Green Mountain National Forest
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Green Mountain National Forest are set by Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Green Mountain National Forest
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 (Rutland County, VT). 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.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 13 December 2017. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Green Mountain National Forest
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 — Green Mountain National Forest
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading the aerial →All field notes →