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Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · OR · 45.10044, -121.13002
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USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 928 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic RiverNIFC · 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 Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River · Bureau of Land Management · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- WWater17 mi
- LLaundry17 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- +Urgent care25 mi
- AAir-up33 mi
- RxPharmacy34 mi
- DDump38 mi
- ShShower38 mi
- PPropane51 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
928 ft
Ground slope
0.5% · flat
Nearest rail line
under 0.1 mi · main line
State
OR
Coordinates
45.10044, -121.13002
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River · Bureau of Land Management · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureDeschutes River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Devil's Canyon (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townDant · ~4.4 mi
- Nearest rail lineunder 0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelWamic Market & Supply · ~11.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesMaupin Market · ~5.7 mi
- HardwareWamic Hardware Store · ~11.1 mi
EV charging — from Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River · Bureau of Land Management · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.0 mi straight-line S — WCEH Warm Springs · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 23 within 50 · 223 within 100 · 381 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)33.6 mi — Madras, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Madras
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.7 mi — MAUPIN MAUPIN · 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 73428 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River · Bureau of Land Management · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLocked Gate Vault Toilet · ~0.5 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletDevils Canyon - Rec Site - Cxt Vault Toilet · ~1.2 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletBear Springs Picnic · ~1.2 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomLong Bend - Rec Site - Toilet #1 · ~1.8 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Deschutes River as a perennial river, under 0.1 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 0.5% — 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 under 0.1 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.
- 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.
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Other camps near Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Buckskin Mary Camp~3.7 mi
- Oasis Campground~6.2 mi
- Blue Hole Campground~8.3 mi
- White River Campground~9.6 mi
The unit that manages Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River is in the Deschutes Field Office, Prineville 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 — Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
Fee note
The BLM page names a fee or a required permit but no rate, read 19 Sep 2026: "Boater Passes are required year-round, for both day and overnight use, for anyone using a watercraft or any other floating device as a means of transport on the Lower Deschutes River." https://www.blm.gov/visit/lower-deschutes-wild-and-scenic-river
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 requires a permit and names no price, so the cost is unpriced ("Boater Passes are required year-round, for both day and overnight use, for anyone using a watercraft or any other floati") (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | Fee stated, no rate published, 2026-09-19: "Boater Passes are required year-round, for both day and overnight use, for anyone using a watercraft or any other floating device as a means of transport on the Lower Deschutes River." Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/lower-deschutes-wild-and-scenic-river (worker_W, read on that page).
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 Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
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 — Lower Deschutes Wild And Scenic River
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →