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Hog Island Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · FL · 28.62068, -82.24019
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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 — Hog Island Campground · U.S. Forest Service · FL
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; 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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Hog Island Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 56 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Hog Island 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 Hog Island Campground · U.S. Forest Service · FL
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- WWater3 mi
- ShShower4 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- HHardware8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- OOutfitter10 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- DDump15 mi
- AAir-up27 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- PPropane41 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 — Hog Island Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
56 ft
Ground slope
2% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.0 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~2.6 mi · Interstate 75
State
FL
Coordinates
28.62068, -82.24019
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Hog Island Campground · U.S. Forest Service · FL (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWithlacoochee River · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townNobleton · ~2.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.0 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~2.6 mi · Interstate 75
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
EV charging — from Hog Island Campground · U.S. Forest Service · FL — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.8 mi straight-line S — Brooksville, FL - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach8 within 25 mi · 187 within 50 · 391 within 100 · 562 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS6.9 mi — Walmart 959 (Bushnell, FL), Bushnell
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO6.9 mi — Walmart 959 (Bushnell, FL), Bushnell
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.9 mi — Inverness Government Center · CHARGEUP · 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 204818 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Hog Island Campground · U.S. Forest Service · FL — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Stop or Truck Facility 38 · ~2.9 mi SE
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Stop or Truck Facility 28 · ~3.0 mi SE
- Highway rest areaOkahumpka Service Plaza · ~19.4 mi NE
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~24.0 mi W · FWS
Coming out here — Hog Island Campground · U.S. Forest Service · FL
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Withlacoochee River as a perennial river, ~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 2% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.0 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.
- Interstate 75 is mapped ~2.6 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.
- 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 Hog Island Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Hog Island Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area~11.8 mi
- Lake Panasoffkee Equestrian-12 (Lake Panasoffkee)~18.1 mi
- Ashley (Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve - West Tract)~19.4 mi
- Compressco 1 (Green Swamp Wilderness Preserve - West Tract)~20.0 mi
Who holds the land at Hog Island Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Withlacoochee State Forest, manager on record: FL Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service (state). Our own record names USFS as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Hog Island 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.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Hog Island 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 — Hog Island Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Picking a spot →All field notes →