Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Grizzly Family Cg.
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 39.88770, -120.47151
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 — Grizzly Family Cg. · Plumas National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 23N06Y (Grizzly Cg), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 23N06Y (Grizzly Cg), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 23N06Y (Grizzly Cg): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
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 Grizzly Family Cg.
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,887 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Grizzly Family Cg.NIFC · 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 Grizzly Family Cg. · Plumas National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- EVEV fast charger6 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- RxPharmacy19 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- OOutfitter24 mi
- WWater24 mi
- ShShower24 mi
- +Urgent care31 mi
- DDump37 mi
- AAir-up41 mi
- PPropane41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Grizzly Family Cg.
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,887 ft
Ground slope
8% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~4.9 mi · main line
State
CA
Coordinates
39.88770, -120.47151
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Grizzly Family Cg. · Plumas National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLake Davis · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Big Grizzly Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLake Davis · ~1.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~4.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSierra Energy · ~5.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSierra Express · ~5.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~5.7 mi
- HardwareMountain Hardware & Sports · ~10.7 mi
EV charging — from Grizzly Family Cg. · Plumas National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger5.6 mi straight-line S — Caboose Park - Portola (at a public site) · EVRANGE · CCS · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 27 within 50 · 170 within 100 · 432 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)24.9 mi — Quincy, CA - Tesla Supercharger, Quincy
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO40.2 mi — DC CORRIDOR LUCKYS SS DC2, Soda Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)25.6 mi — DAME SHIRLEY DSP-EAST, Quincy, CA · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Chalet View Lodge - Tesla Destination, Graeagle, 7.3 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 357432 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Grizzly Family Cg. · Plumas National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomGrizzly Family Cg. · at this camp · USFS
- Flush restroomGrasshopper Flat Family Cg. · ~0.3 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFrenchman Boat Ramp · ~0.4 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLake Davis Kiosk · ~0.4 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Grizzly Family Cg. · Plumas National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lake Davis as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.2 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 8% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~4.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Grizzly Family Cg. elsewhere
Other camps near Grizzly Family Cg.
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Grasshopper Flat Family Cg.~0.3 mi · fee
- Lightning Tree Family Cg.~3.4 mi · fee
- Chilcoot Family Cg.~13.7 mi · fee
- Ross Camp~15.1 mi
The unit that manages Grizzly Family Cg.
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Grizzly Family Cg. are set by Plumas National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Grizzly Family Cg.
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-22: $38 per night, single site, plus $5 per vehicle per night for each additional vehicle; the dump station is $17 per use. recreation.gov 232833 books the same $38 standard non-electric for the 2026-05-22 to 2026-09-06 season. NAME NOTE: the forest publishes this as plain 'Grizzly Campground'. Sources: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/plumas/recreation/grizzly-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232833.
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 Grizzly Family Cg.
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Grizzly Family Cg.
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Getting unstuck →All field notes →