Agency-listedUSFSFree
Grouse Mountain Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.98833, -120.30999
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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 — Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0617), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. 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 →
What the record says about the site — Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Tent camping
- Toilet on site
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Grouse Mountain Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,500 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Grouse Mountain CampgroundNIFC · 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 Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- ShShower2 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- WWater10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- @Mail17 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- OOutfitter22 mi
- RxPharmacy25 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Grouse Mountain Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,500 ft
Ground slope
7.5% · gentle
State
WA
Coordinates
47.98833, -120.30999
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (fs.usda.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTwentyfive Mile Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townHollywood Beach · ~6.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~9.4 mi
- FuelBill's Gas · ~17.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.3 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~2.3 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~25.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicLake Chelan Community Hospital Clinics · ~17.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~17.0 mi
EV charging — from Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.4 mi straight-line E — WCEH City of Pateros · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 247 within 100 · 448 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)21.5 mi — Entiat, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Entiat
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.3 mi — Wapato Point Resort, Manson, WA · Blink Network · J1772 · 4 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 — Harmony Meadows Tennis & Event Center - Tesla Destination, Manson, 7.4 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
Level 2, restricted access — Mountain View Lodge & Resort, Manson, 10.2 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use 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 333271 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletGrouse Mountain · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPot Peak · ~2.2 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSnowberry Bowl · ~2.2 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDeer Point · ~2.6 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Grouse Mountain Campground · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: Twentyfive Mile Creek (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 7.5% — 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.
- 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 Grouse Mountain Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Grouse Mountain Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Grouse Mountain Springs~0.1 mi
- Snowberry Bowl~2.2 mi · fee
- Deer Point~2.6 mi · fee
- Junior Point~4.2 mi
The unit that manages Grouse Mountain Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Grouse Mountain Campground are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Grouse Mountain Campground
Fee note
No fee, per the land manager's page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No fees are required for this site" https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/okanogan-wenatchee/recreation/grouse-mountain-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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there) | No fee 2026-09-19: "No fees are required for this site" Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/okanogan-wenatchee/recreation/grouse-mountain-campground (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Grouse Mountain 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 — Grouse Mountain Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Off-grid communication →All field notes →