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Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
OHV / 4×4 · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 35.80489, -115.27425
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,821 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping · Bureau of Land Management · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail3 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- WWater12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- RxPharmacy13 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- PPropane15 mi
- AAir-up16 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- LLaundry19 mi
- DDump23 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 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 — Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
Access
OHV / 4×4
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
2,821 ft
Ground slope
1.5% · flat
Nearest rail line
~1.3 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~1.7 mi · Interstate 15
State
NV
Coordinates
35.80489, -115.27425
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureJean Lake · ~0.7 mi · USGS: playa, no flow class
- Nearest townGoodsprings · ~9.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~1.3 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~1.7 mi · Interstate 15
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~3.3 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~14.9 mi
- Dump station~23.0 mi
- GroceriesTerrible's · ~3.3 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~13.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicAmerican Urgent & Primary Care Centers · ~13.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~13.8 mi
EV charging — from Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.5 mi straight-line NE — Henderson, NV - Las Vegas Boulevard South - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 24 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 reach47 within 25 mi · 79 within 50 · 106 within 100 · 173 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS14.6 mi — Las Vegas, Las Vegas
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO14.6 mi — Las Vegas, Las Vegas
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.4 mi — Adventura Park - Public, Henderson, NV · Blink 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 318170 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet Cottonwood · ~16.4 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet · ~16.7 mi NW · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLate Night Trailhead - Vault Toilets · ~16.8 mi NW · BLM
- RestroomToilet 04 · ~23.2 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Jean Lake as a playa (no flow class in the record), ~0.7 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.5% — 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 ~1.3 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 15 is mapped ~1.7 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.
- 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 Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Eldorado Free Campsite~18.7 mi
- Red Rock Canyon Campground (BLM)~23.4 mi · fee
- Mesquite Wilderness~23.6 mi
The unit that manages Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping is in the Las Vegas Field Office, Southern Nevada 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 — Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
Stay limit
14 nights (Stay limit: "14 days")
Source
public land records
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 dispersed camping / OHV area south of Las Vegas. BLM's own facility record is named "Dispersed-Jean/Roach Dry Lakes" and gives Stay limit: "14 days" (read 2026-08-17). BLM's fee field is empty; treated as free on the standard rule that undeveloped BLM land is free, and BLM charges no fee here on its own record. FLOOD WARNING, BLM's own words: "Although the name implies that the lakebed is dry, it has the potential of flooding and holding water long after a rainfall. After substantial precipitation events, the lakebed can hold several inches to several feet of water. Travel on the lakebed after a precipitation events is not recommended." [sic] TRAVEL RULE: "Outside of the dry lakebed, motorized vehicle use is limited to existing roads and trails." No facilities of any kind are described. NEAREST TOWN: Jean, NV. Coordinate is BLM's own published point from gis.blm.gov/arcgis/rest/services/recreation/BLM_Natl_Recreation_Sites_Facilities (read 2026-08-17). It is a recreation-area pin, not a surveyed campsite. SOURCE: https://www.blm.gov/visit/search-details/262714/1 | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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 Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
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 — Jean / Roach Dry Lakes Dispersed Camping
Camping near a reservoir →Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →