Agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirmRoad season: open (MVUM)
Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 45.55704, -121.82674
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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 — Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 1310664, 30 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 1310664, 30 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 1310664: “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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,228 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)NIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Springs Campground (not maintained) · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery4 mi
- WWater8 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- DDump10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- AAir-up18 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- PPropane24 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 Springs Campground (not maintained)
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,228 ft
Ground slope
10.7% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~7.7 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~7.6 mi · US Hwy 30
State
OR
Coordinates
45.55704, -121.82674
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureIndian Creek · ~0.3 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Nice Rock Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townBonneville · ~8.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~7.6 mi · US Hwy 30
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.0 mi
- FuelChevron · ~8.2 mi
- Propane / LPGChevron · ~8.2 mi
- Dump stationStevenson Trailer Sewage Dump Station · ~9.9 mi
- GroceriesColumbia Market · ~8.2 mi
- PharmacyWalmart Pharmacy · ~17.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicAdventist Health Medical Group - Hoodland · ~16.0 mi
- HardwareMcIsaac's Hardware Store · ~11.5 mi
EV charging — from Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger8.2 mi straight-line NW — Thunder Island Brewing - Charli Charging, Cascade Locks, OR (at a brewery / winery) · Non-Networked · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-10-13 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach14 within 25 mi · 129 within 50 · 266 within 100 · 570 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO8.4 mi — WCEH Cascade Locks, Cascade Locks
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.4 mi — WCEH Cascade Locks · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.45 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 428668 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletWahtum Lake · ~2.2 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWahtum Lake · ~2.2 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLost Lake · ~3.9 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBlack Lake · ~5.2 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) · Mt. Hood National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Indian Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.3 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 10.7% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 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 ~7.7 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.
- US Hwy 30 is mapped ~7.6 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 Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) elsewhere
Other camps near Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Wahtum Lake Campground~2.1 mi
- Ottertail Lake~3.0 mi
- Lost Lake~3.9 mi · fee
- Black Lake~5.2 mi · fee
The unit that manages Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Indian Springs Campground (not maintained) are set by Mt. Hood National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
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 Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
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 — Indian Springs Campground (not maintained)
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading your camp page →All field notes →