Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Hanna Flat Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 34.28763, -116.97545
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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 — Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 3N14J (Hanna Flats Campground), 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 3N14J (Hanna Flats Campground), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 3N14J (Hanna Flats Campground): “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 →
What the record says about the site — Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
- Standard site
- Reservation recommended
- Room for 85 parties
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- Toilet on site
- Drinking water on site
- No showers
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 Hanna Flat Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,068 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Hanna Flat CampgroundNIFC · 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 Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- ShShower4 mi
- WWater4 mi
- DDump4 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- LLaundry5 mi
- PPropane5 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- AAir-up18 mi
- OOutfitter23 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, 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 — Hanna Flat Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,068 ft
Ground slope
6.3% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~6.6 mi · main line
State
CA
Coordinates
34.28763, -116.97545
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureHolcomb Creek · ~0.9 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Greenlead Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townFawnskin · ~2.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.0 mi
- FuelChevron · ~4.6 mi
- Propane / LPGMain Street Gas & Mart · ~21.0 mi
- Dump station~3.9 mi
- GroceriesFawnskin Market · ~2.1 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy of the Woods · ~12.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicBear Valley Community Hospital · ~5.7 mi
- HardwareRedlands Ace Hardware · ~20.0 mi
EV charging — from Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger4.6 mi straight-line SE — Big Bear Lake, CA - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 6 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 reach61 within 25 mi · 241 within 50 · 1063 within 100 · 1310 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS5.8 mi — Homestreet Bank Big Bear, Big Bear Lake
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO5.8 mi — Homestreet Bank Big Bear, Big Bear Lake
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.7 mi — Sierra Blue Hotel and Swim Club - Tesla Destination, Big Bear Lake, CA · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 2 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 316899 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomSerrano Cg · ~3.8 mi SE · USFS
- RestroomThurman Flats Picnic Area · ~12.9 mi S · USFS
- RestroomMorton Peak Lo · ~13.4 mi S · USFS
- RestroomMomyer Trailhead · ~14.3 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Hanna Flat Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Holcomb Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.9 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 6.3% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.6 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 Hanna Flat Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Hanna Flat Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Little Bear Spring, Pct Trail Camp~0.9 mi
- Big Bear Yellow Post Sites~1.0 mi
- Yellow Post 1~2.0 mi
- Ironwood Group Cg~2.3 mi · fee
The unit that manages Hanna Flat Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Hanna Flat Campground are set by San Bernardino National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Hanna Flat Campground
Fee note
$33 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232249
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/232249
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) | Fee 2026-09-18: $33 per night, by site type and season (Recreation.gov rates table). Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/232249/rates (fee_backfill, figure 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 Hanna Flat 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.
- 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
- Whether that tap is running today, and whether any stream or lake here is drinkable — the record covers the supply the site provides, nothing else
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Current fire restrictions
- 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 — Hanna Flat Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Camping with a dog →All field notes →