Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · AZ · 32.23874, -112.75060
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
What the record says about the site — Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping · public land · AZ
- Group reservations only
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 Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,797 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gunsight Wash Dispersed CampingNIFC · AirNow
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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 Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping · public land · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- WWater20 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- ShShower21 mi
- DDump21 mi
- @Mail25 mi
- EVEV fast charger49 mi
- LLaundry50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 49-mi run (and back).
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 — Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
1,797 ft
Ground slope
1.9% · flat
State
AZ
Coordinates
32.23874, -112.75060
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping · public land · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGunsight Wash · ~0.1 mi · USGS: ephemeral wash
- Also mapped (OSM)Evelen Charco Tank (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townWhy · ~2.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelDesert Diamond · ~1.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~21.0 mi
- GroceriesOlsens Marketplace · ~12.8 mi
- PharmacyFarmácia San Luis · ~26.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~11.5 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~12.8 mi
EV charging — from Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping · public land · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger48.7 mi straight-line N — Gila Bend, AZ - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 16 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 75 within 100 · 163 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS49.2 mi — Gila Bend, AZ, Gila Bend
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO74.9 mi — Walmart 1218 (Casa Grande, AZ), Casa Grande
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.8 mi — OLSENS IGA STATION #2, Ajo, AZ · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · 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 122249 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping · public land · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomAlamo Canyon Toilet · ~11.6 mi S · NPS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~12.5 mi NW · FWS
- RestroomEstes Canyon Vault Toilet · ~15.6 mi S · NPS
- RestroomPinkley Peak Toilet · ~17.5 mi S · NPS
Coming out here — Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping · public land · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Gunsight Wash as an ephemeral wash, ~0.1 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 1.9% — flat. 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.
- Practice a first night on real ground in Dispersed 3D, free in the browser. The game's ground is Montana's Lolo, Custer Gallatin and Beaverhead-Deerlodge forests and the Arizona desert at Quartzsite; this camp is not 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.
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Who holds the land at Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Lower Sonoran 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 — Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping
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.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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.
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Gunsight Wash Dispersed Camping
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