Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Heaton Bay Pa
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 39.60439, -106.07533
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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 — Heaton Bay Pa · White River National Forest · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1035.1P (Heaton Bay Campground), 0 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 1035.1P (Heaton Bay Campground), 0 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 21 – Oct 3. That season ends after Oct 3.
MVUM record for FR 1035.1P (Heaton Bay Campground): “05/21-10/03” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; 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 Heaton Bay Pa
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at the elevation shown above.
Fire & smoke — around Heaton Bay PaNIFC · 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 Heaton Bay Pa · White River National Forest · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- HHardware1 mi
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- +Urgent care2 mi
- LLaundry2 mi
- OOutfitter2 mi
- PPropane2 mi
- RxPharmacy2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- WWater2 mi
- AAir-up3 mi
- MMechanic18 mi
- DDump28 mi
- ShShower28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Heaton Bay Pa
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Ground slope
2.1% · flat
Nearest highway
~0.4 mi · US Hwy 6
State
CO
Coordinates
39.60439, -106.07533
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Heaton Bay Pa · White River National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureDillon Reservoir · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townFrisco · ~2.0 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~0.4 mi · US Hwy 6
- Drinking waterWater · ~2.1 mi
- FuelMaverik · ~1.4 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~1.8 mi
- Dump station~27.5 mi
- GroceriesMaverik · ~1.4 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~2.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicEagle-Summit Foot & Ankle · ~1.6 mi
- HardwareLowe's · ~1.4 mi
EV charging — from Heaton Bay Pa · White River National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.5 mi straight-line SW — Frisco, CO - Summit Boulevard - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach25 within 25 mi · 75 within 50 · 385 within 100 · 465 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO2.3 mi — VOLVO CAR USA SILVERTHORN PL1, Silverthorne
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.3 mi — Ramada by Wyndham Frisco · Blink Network · J1772 · 4 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 375836 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Heaton Bay Pa · White River National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletHeaton Bay Cg · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGiberson Bay · ~0.5 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletPine Cove Cg · ~1.2 mi S · USFS
- Flush restroomPeak One · ~1.4 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Heaton Bay Pa · White River National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Dillon Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 2.1% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- US Hwy 6 is mapped ~0.4 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Heaton Bay Pa elsewhere
Other camps near Heaton Bay Pa
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Heaton Bay Cg~0.1 mi · fee
- Pine Cove Cg~1.2 mi · fee
- Peak One~1.4 mi · fee
- Windy Point~1.6 mi · fee
The unit that manages Heaton Bay Pa
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Heaton Bay Pa are set by White River National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Summit Ranch at 9,350 ft, about 9 miles away. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Heaton Bay Pa
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 2026-08-20: this record is the Heaton Bay PICNIC SITE, not the campground, and the agency publishes no overnight rate for it -- the fee is $5 per vehicle per day for day use. Our pin sits on the coordinates the picnic site page prints (0.001 mi). The separate Heaton Bay Campground about 0.1 mi away charges $31 per night for a single site. If you want to sleep here, book the campground, not this spot. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/whiteriver/recreation/heaton-bay-picnic-site and https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/whiteriver/recreation/heaton-bay-campground.
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 Heaton Bay Pa
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 — Heaton Bay Pa
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Cold-weather camping →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →