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Kremmling Recreation Management Area
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CO · 40.05714, -106.38788
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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 Kremmling Recreation Management Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,369 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Kremmling Recreation Management 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 Kremmling Recreation Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- HHardware0 mi
- EVEV fast charger0 mi
- RxPharmacy1 mi
- WWater21 mi
- ShShower24 mi
- OOutfitter25 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- DDump28 mi
- LLaundry29 mi
- AAir-up33 mi
- PPropane34 mi
- +Urgent care36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 21-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Kremmling Recreation Management Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
7,369 ft
Ground slope
2.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.3 mi · main line
State
CO
Coordinates
40.05714, -106.38788
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Kremmling Recreation Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMuddy Creek · ~0.4 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townKremmling · ~0.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.3 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelKremmling Mercantile · ~0.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~27.6 mi
- GroceriesKremmling Mercantile · ~0.6 mi
- PharmacyKremmling Mercantile · ~0.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicMiddle Park Health - Kremmling · ~0.1 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~0.2 mi
EV charging — from Kremmling Recreation Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger0.2 mi straight-line N — Kremmling, CO - Park Avenue - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 45 within 50 · 340 within 100 · 442 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO23.4 mi — MAVERIK GRANBY PL2, Granby
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.3 mi — Town of Kremmling - Town Park (at a park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-11-06 · 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 165579 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Kremmling Recreation Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomConfluence Restroom · ~1.0 mi S · BLM
- RestroomWolford Muddy Creek Fishing Restroom · ~2.2 mi N · BLM
- RestroomWolford Ritschard Dam Restroom · ~4.1 mi NW · BLM
- RestroomWolford Red Desert Overlook Restroom · ~7.7 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Kremmling Recreation Management Area · Bureau of Land Management · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Muddy Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 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 ~0.3 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Kremmling Recreation Management Area elsewhere
Other camps near Kremmling Recreation Management Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Wolford Recreation Special Recreation Management Area~4.2 mi
- Upper Colorado River Recreation Area~8.1 mi · fee
- Blacktail Creek~10.2 mi · fee
- Radium Recreation Area~11.5 mi
The unit that manages Kremmling Recreation Management Area
Kremmling Recreation Management Area is in the Kremmling Field Office, Northwest 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.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Elliot Ridge at 10,550 ft, about 14 miles away. It sits about 3,181 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 — Kremmling Recreation 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).
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 Kremmling Recreation 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 — Kremmling Recreation Management Area
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →How to read this page →All field notes →