Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFree
Jellison Place
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · MT · 46.66569, -110.05525
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Jellison Place · Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest · MT
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 382 (High Mountain), 0.3 mi away. 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 Jellison Place
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,753 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Jellison PlaceNIFC · 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 Jellison Place · Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest · MT
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel14 mi
- GGrocery14 mi
- @Mail14 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- MMechanic35 mi
- WWater41 mi
- HHardware41 mi
- LLaundry41 mi
- RxPharmacy41 mi
- ShShower42 mi
- OOutfitter48 mi
- EVEV fast charger58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 41-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 14 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 58-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Dump, Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Jellison Place
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
5,753 ft
Ground slope
11.1% · noticeable
State
MT
Coordinates
46.66569, -110.05525
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Jellison Place · Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureJellison Reservoir · ~0.4 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townJudith Gap · ~14.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~14.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesJudith Gap Oil · ~14.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicBair Memorial Clinic · ~18.8 mi
EV charging — from Jellison Place · Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger57.6 mi straight-line S — Big Timber, MT - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 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 · none within 50 · 21 within 100 · 30 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS81.8 mi — Kendall Ford of Bozeman, Bozeman
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO82.2 mi — Audi of Bozeman, Bozeman
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)73.6 mi — LEWIS STREET STATION 1, Livingston, MT · 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 102260 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Jellison Place · Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletJellison Place · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHaymaker Dispersed · ~4.3 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDaisy Dean Camp · ~14.5 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHay Canyon Cg · ~14.8 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Jellison Place · Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Jellison Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~0.4 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 11.1% — noticeable. 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 Jellison Place elsewhere
Other camps near Jellison Place
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Jellison Place~0.9 mi
- Haymaker Dispersed~4.3 mi
- Roberts Creek Rd 584-205~6.0 mi
- Roberts Creek Rd584-204~6.0 mi
The unit that manages Jellison Place
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Jellison Place are set by Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Daisy Peak at 7,590 ft, about 13 miles away. It sits about 1,837 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Jellison Place
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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). || Water 2026-08-24 (nightshift fire 120): USFS Enterprise Data Warehouse Recreation Sites layer (apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0), extract cached locally as data\_mt_water_edw.json, objectid 2381428, site "JELLISON PLACE" (recreation area "Jellison Place"), WATER_AVAILABILITY = "No, drinking water is not provided". Matched to this camp on coordinates (0.0007 mi from the agency point). Agency record only -- not field-verified, and no natural water here is claimed to be potable.
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 Jellison Place
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 — Jellison Place
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Camping with a dog →All field notes →