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Kachess
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.35623, -121.24650
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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 — Kachess · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0617), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. 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 Kachess
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,283 ft.
Fire & smoke — around KachessNIFC · 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 Kachess · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater0 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- AAir-up8 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- OOutfitter9 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- DDump17 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- RxPharmacy18 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- PPropane43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, 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 — Kachess
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,283 ft
Ground slope
2.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.2 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~4.3 mi · Interstate 90
State
WA
Coordinates
47.35623, -121.24650
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Kachess · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBox Canyon Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townRoslyn · ~7.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.2 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~4.3 mi · Interstate 90
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.1 mi
- FuelShell · ~8.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationRV Sanitation Station · ~17.2 mi
- GroceriesR.V. Town · ~8.1 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~17.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicCle Elum Medical Center · ~17.8 mi
- HardwareCle Elum Hardware · ~17.6 mi
EV charging — from Kachess · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.0 mi straight-line NW — WCEH Snoqualmie, Snoqualmie Pass, WA · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 94 within 50 · 370 within 100 · 576 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.6 mi — Cle Elum, WA - West Davis Street - Tesla Supercharger, Cle Elum
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)8.1 mi — Silver Fir Lodge, Snoqualmie Pass, WA (at a recreation facility) · Non-Networked · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 9 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2023-06-12 · 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 73433 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Kachess · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomKachess · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletEast Kachess · ~3.2 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRachel Lake · ~3.5 mi NW · USFS
- Portable toiletCabin Creek Sno-Park · ~4.6 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Kachess · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Box Canyon Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.2 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 2.1% — 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 ~6.2 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 90 is mapped ~4.3 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 Kachess elsewhere
Other camps near Kachess
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Dispersed Camping~0.4 mi
- Dispersed Camping~1.9 mi
- Dispersed Camping~3.0 mi
- East Kachess Group Site~3.3 mi
The unit that manages Kachess
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Kachess are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Kachess
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified.
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 Kachess
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 — Kachess
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading your camp page →All field notes →