Agency-listedUSFS · dispersedFree
Marijuana Flat
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 42.13880, -111.66945
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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 — Marijuana Flat · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 30447 (Cub River Guard Station), 0.3 mi away. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 Marijuana Flat
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,515 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Marijuana FlatNIFC · 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 Marijuana Flat · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater8 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- HHardware11 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- RxPharmacy11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- DDump22 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- AAir-up25 mi
- PPropane29 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Marijuana Flat
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service · dispersed
Elevation
5,515 ft
Ground slope
25.8% · steep
Nearest rail line
~9.6 mi · main line
State
ID
Coordinates
42.13880, -111.66945
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Marijuana Flat · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCub River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townPreston · ~11.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~9.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~8.5 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~10.8 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~28.9 mi
- Dump station~22.4 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~10.8 mi
- PharmacyPreston Drug · ~10.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicHealthWest · ~10.8 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~10.6 mi
EV charging — from Marijuana Flat · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.7 mi straight-line SE — Mike's Market - Tesla Supercharger (Car Charging Pros), Garden City, UT (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 16 within 50 · 75 within 100 · 175 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS18.7 mi — MIKES MARKET BERT, Garden City
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO18.7 mi — MIKES MARKET BERT, Garden City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.0 mi — El Camino Donuts - Tesla Destination, Paris, ID · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.48 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 462737 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Marijuana Flat · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Flush restroomCub River Gs · ~0.3 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAlbert Moser · ~1.3 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWillow Flat · ~2.2 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBloomington Lake Day Use Area · ~4.5 mi E · USFS
Coming out here — Marijuana Flat · Caribou-Targhee National Forest · ID
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Cub 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 25.8% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~9.6 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.
Open Marijuana Flat elsewhere
Other camps near Marijuana Flat
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Albert Moser~1.3 mi · fee
- Willow Flat~2.2 mi · fee
- North Fork Campground~7.6 mi
- Porcupine~8.3 mi · fee
The unit that manages Marijuana Flat
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Marijuana Flat are set by Caribou-Targhee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Franklin Basin at 8,140 ft, about 7 miles away. It sits about 2,625 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 — Marijuana Flat
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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up).
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 Marijuana Flat
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 — Marijuana Flat
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Cold-weather camping →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →