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Indian Pass Wilderness
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 33.07943, -114.77444
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Indian Pass Wilderness
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,116 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Indian Pass WildernessNIFC · 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 Indian Pass Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater10 mi
- DDump10 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- FFuel23 mi
- GGrocery23 mi
- @Mail23 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- HHardware27 mi
- OOutfitter27 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- PPropane37 mi
- AAir-up51 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 23 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 — Indian Pass Wilderness
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
1,116 ft
Ground slope
52.3% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
33.07943, -114.77444
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Indian Pass Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureJulian Wash · ~0.9 mi · USGS: ephemeral stream
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.8 mi
- FuelGas · ~22.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~9.8 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~22.7 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~27.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicYuma Proving Ground Health Clinic · ~24.7 mi
- HardwareThe Home Depot · ~27.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Indian Pass Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.0 mi straight-line S — Yuma, AZ - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 · 22 within 50 · 46 within 100 · 362 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS27.6 mi — Target T2083 (Yuma, AZ), Yuma
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO38.1 mi — US Bank Blythe, Blythe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.0 mi — LQYUMA LQ ZUMA 2 · 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 101997 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Indian Pass Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~16.4 mi E · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~16.4 mi N · FWS
- Vault / pit toiletWash Road Rec Site -Vault Toilet 50 · ~17.2 mi SW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWash Road Rec Site -Vault Toilet 60 · ~17.2 mi SW · BLM
Coming out here — Indian Pass Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Julian Wash as an ephemeral stream, ~0.9 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 52.3% — 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.
- 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.
- 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 Indian Pass Wilderness elsewhere
Other camps near Indian Pass Wilderness
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Picacho Peak Wilderness~5.3 mi
- BLM public land~12.0 mi
- Little Picacho Wilderness~15.4 mi
- BLM public land~16.3 mi
The unit that manages Indian Pass Wilderness
Indian Pass Wilderness is in the El Centro Field Office, California Desert District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Indian Pass Wilderness
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Indian Pass Wilderness
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 — Indian Pass Wilderness
What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Bugs & critters →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →