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Margie's Cove Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 33.12677, -112.58219
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
What the record says about the site — Margie's Cove Campground · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Room for 3 parties
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Margie's Cove Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,116 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Margie's Cove CampgroundNIFC · 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 Margie's Cove Campground · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater4 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- GGrocery14 mi
- @Mail15 mi
- +Urgent care15 mi
- PPropane17 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- RxPharmacy18 mi
- HHardware22 mi
- OOutfitter29 mi
- AAir-up32 mi
- DDump33 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 14 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 — Margie's Cove Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
1,116 ft
Ground slope
1.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~9.8 mi · main line
State
AZ
Coordinates
33.12677, -112.58219
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Margie's Cove Campground · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureStream · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townRainbow Valley · ~13.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.8 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelOne 9 Fuel Stop · ~14.2 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas · ~25.4 mi
- GroceriesShell · ~14.2 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~18.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~15.5 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~26.2 mi
EV charging — from Margie's Cove Campground · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.1 mi straight-line SW — Gila Bend, AZ (at a public site) · RIVIAN_ADVENTURE · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach5 within 25 mi · 63 within 50 · 115 within 100 · 179 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO21.4 mi — Walmart 3407 (Buckeye, AZ), Buckeye
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)16.9 mi — PW-CH CITY HALL CT4K, Buckeye, AZ · 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 391188 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Margie's Cove Campground · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMargies Cove West Trailhead · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMargies Cove East Trailhead · ~7.3 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGap Well Recreation · ~8.7 mi S · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet 1 - Quartz Peak Trailhead · ~20.4 mi E · BLM
Coming out here — Margie's Cove Campground · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: Stream. 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 1.6% — 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 ~9.8 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.
- 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 Margie's Cove Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Margie's Cove Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Woolsey Peak Wilderness~18.6 mi
The unit that manages Margie's Cove Campground
Margie's Cove Campground is in the Lower Sonoran Field Office, Phoenix 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 — Margie's Cove Campground
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Margie's Cove Campground
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 — Margie's Cove Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →