Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Indian Valley Management Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 39.11755, -122.58239
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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 Valley Management Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,553 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Indian Valley Management AreaNIFC · 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 Valley Management Area · 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
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- WWater11 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- DDump14 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- AAir-up23 mi
- PPropane46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 Valley Management Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,553 ft
Ground slope
33.8% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
39.11755, -122.58239
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Indian Valley Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townSpring Valley · ~2.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~7.6 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas Propane · ~18.9 mi
- Dump station~14.3 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~7.6 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~18.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicAdventist Health Clear Lake · ~12.8 mi
- HardwareWilliams Hardware · ~23.3 mi
EV charging — from Indian Valley Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.3 mi straight-line W — Upper Lake, CA - Tesla Supercharger (at a rest stop) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 reach4 within 25 mi · 34 within 50 · 543 within 100 · 1011 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS23.1 mi — Maxwell Rest Area - Northbound, Williams
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO23.1 mi — Maxwell Rest Area - Northbound, Williams
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.8 mi — Adventist Health Clear Lake, Clearlake, CA (at a hospital) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 3 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-08-12 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Stonehouse Cellars - Tesla Destination, Clearlake Oaks, 6.2 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 368021 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Indian Valley Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomBlue Oak Cg - Toilet · ~5.2 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLittle Stony · ~11.7 mi N · USFS
- RestroomCache Creek -Judge Davis Trailhd -Toilet · ~11.7 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCedar Camp · ~11.9 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Indian Valley Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 33.8% — 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.
- 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 Valley Management Area elsewhere
Other camps near Indian Valley Management Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Pacific Ridge Camp~8.0 mi
- Wilson Camp~9.0 mi
- Green Flat Camp~9.4 mi
- Lakeview~9.4 mi
The unit that manages Indian Valley Management Area
Indian Valley Management Area is in the Ukiah Field Office, Central California 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 Valley Management Area
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No Fees" https://www.blm.gov/visit/indian-valley-management-area
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). | No fee 2026-09-19: "No Fees" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/indian-valley-management-area (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Valley Management Area
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 Valley Management Area
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →How to read this page →All field notes →