Agency-listedUSFSFeeOpen todayRoad season: open (MVUM)
Lynx Pass
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 40.10560, -106.68285
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Can I go now? — Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
Open today Season Jun 1 – Oct 31. Closes after Oct 31. Weather can shorten it.
U.S. Forest Service record: “Weather Dependent (typically June-October)” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 270.1A (Lynx Pass Cg), 40 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 270.1A (Lynx Pass Cg), 40 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 270.1A (Lynx Pass Cg): “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 Lynx Pass
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,990 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lynx PassNIFC · 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 Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- DDump15 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- WWater26 mi
- OOutfitter27 mi
- LLaundry29 mi
- MMechanic31 mi
- AAir-up45 mi
- PPropane46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 26-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Lynx Pass
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,990 ft
Ground slope
6.5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~6.4 mi · main line
State
CO
Coordinates
40.10560, -106.68285
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLagunita Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townYampa · ~12.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.4 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~12.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~15.4 mi
- GroceriesHunt's Pizza · ~12.0 mi
- PharmacyKremmling Mercantile · ~15.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicUCHealth Urgent Care · ~25.9 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~16.0 mi
EV charging — from Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.3 mi straight-line W — Helios Yampa CO (at a public site) · EVRANGE · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 36 within 50 · 267 within 100 · 438 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)15.9 mi — Kremmling, CO - Park Avenue - Tesla Supercharger, Kremmling
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO26.2 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL2, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.7 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 448020 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomLynx Pass · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomLagunita Lake · ~0.3 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRock Creek · ~3.7 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBlacktail Creek · ~6.1 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — Lynx Pass · Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lagunita Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 6.5% — gentle. 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 ~6.4 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.
- 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 Lynx Pass elsewhere
Other camps near Lynx Pass
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Rock Creek~3.7 mi
- Blacktail Creek~6.1 mi · fee
- Red Dirt Reservoir~7.6 mi
- King Mountain~10.6 mi
The unit that manages Lynx Pass
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Lynx Pass are set by Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Lynx Pass at 8,910 ft, about 2 miles away. That is about the height of this camp, so it is a fair proxy. 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 — Lynx Pass
Open season
Weather Dependent (typically June-October)
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. | Fee 2026-08-24: $20 per site per night. Pay on site in EXACT cash or check only -- the forest warns there is no change given and that NO CREDIT CARDS are accepted; payment instructions are on the kiosk. There is no recreation.gov listing. Season is weather dependent, typically June to October. Single source: the Medicine Bow-Routt NF campground page (updated May 22 2026, status Site Open). Yampa Ranger District, Lynx Pass. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/mbrtb/recreation/lynx-pass-campground.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
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 Lynx Pass
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
- 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 — Lynx Pass
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Water on public land →Power off-grid →All field notes →