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Icewater Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.11271, -120.90351
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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 — Icewater Creek · 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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Icewater Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,691 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Icewater CreekNIFC · 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 Icewater Creek · 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
- DDump4 mi
- WWater4 mi
- MMechanic5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- EVEV fast charger5 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- +Urgent care6 mi
- AAir-up6 mi
- ShShower6 mi
- LLaundry15 mi
- PPropane28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Icewater Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,691 ft
Ground slope
15.8% · steep
Nearest rail line
~4.8 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~3.8 mi · Interstate 90
State
WA
Coordinates
47.11271, -120.90351
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Icewater Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTaneum Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townSouth Cle Elum · ~5.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~4.8 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~3.8 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waterWater · ~4.2 mi
- FuelStorey’s Service · ~5.4 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~28.0 mi
- Dump station~4.0 mi
- GroceriesCle Elum Short Stop · ~5.5 mi
- PharmacyCle Elum Drug · ~5.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicKVH Urgent Care · ~6.0 mi
- HardwareAper's Certified Welding · ~5.3 mi
EV charging — from Icewater Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger5.3 mi straight-line N — Cle Elum, WA - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 reach10 within 25 mi · 46 within 50 · 353 within 100 · 600 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS8.5 mi — WCEH Cle Elum, Cle Elum
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO8.5 mi — WCEH Cle Elum, Cle Elum
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.9 mi — Cle Elum 1: 111 N Harris Ave · EV Connect · 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 116820 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Icewater Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletIcewater Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTaneum Junction · ~1.5 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTaneum · ~2.3 mi E · USFS
- Flush restroomTaneum Cabin · ~2.3 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Icewater Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Taneum Creek as a perennial stream, under 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 15.8% — steep. 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 ~4.8 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 90 is mapped ~3.8 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 Icewater Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Icewater Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Taneum Junction Campground~1.6 mi
- Taneum~2.3 mi · fee
- Manastash Lake Campground~5.9 mi · fee
- Riders Camp~6.0 mi · fee
The unit that manages Icewater Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Icewater Creek are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Icewater Creek
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 2026-08-21: $24 per night, single site, plus $11 per additional vehicle per night. Cle Elum Ranger District. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/okanogan-wenatchee/recreation/icewater-creek-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 Icewater Creek
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 — Icewater Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading your camp page →All field notes →