Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · AZ · 31.74770, -110.74130
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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 — Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area · Coronado National Forest · AZ
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 4045 (Kentucky Camp), 140 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 4045 (Kentucky Camp), 140 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 4045 (Kentucky Camp): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; 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 Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,229 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping AreaNIFC · 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 Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area · Coronado National Forest · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail7 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- HHardware7 mi
- MMechanic7 mi
- WWater8 mi
- GGrocery14 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- DDump19 mi
- AAir-up23 mi
- ShShower24 mi
- OOutfitter32 mi
- PPropane33 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
5,229 ft
Ground slope
26.7% · steep
State
AZ
Coordinates
31.74770, -110.74130
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area · Coronado National Forest · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFish Canyon Tank (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townGreaterville · ~1.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.3 mi
- FuelChevron · ~16.5 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~7.3 mi
- Dump station~18.7 mi · fee
- GroceriesStore · ~14.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~28.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicFasTrac Walk-in Clinic · ~17.0 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~14.7 mi
EV charging — from Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area · Coronado National Forest · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger17.8 mi straight-line NW — JC HYUNDAI GV DC FAST 1, Green Valley, AZ · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 39 within 50 · 53 within 100 · 123 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)23.5 mi — Tucson, AZ - Tesla Supercharger, Tucson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)7.0 mi — Dos Cabezas WineWorks - Series, Sonoita, AZ · 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 211832 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area · Coronado National Forest · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletKentucky Camp Th · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletKentucky Camp · ~0.2 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLc Airstrip Group · ~7.2 mi NE · BLM
- Flush restroomKent Springs Cabin · ~8.0 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area · Coronado National Forest · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: Fish Canyon Tank (water). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 26.7% — 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.
- Practice a first night on real ground in Dispersed 3D, free in the browser. The game's ground is Montana's Lolo, Custer Gallatin and Beaverhead-Deerlodge forests and the Arizona desert at Quartzsite; this camp is not in it.
- 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 Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area elsewhere
Other camps near Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Las Cienegas National Conservation Area~4.1 mi
- Maternity Well Group Site~4.5 mi
- Oak Tree Canyon Camp Area~6.7 mi
- Cieneguita BLM~6.9 mi
The unit that manages Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area are set by Coronado National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
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 Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping 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.
- 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 — Kentucky Camp Dispersed Camping Area
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →