Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.83981, -122.76976
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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 — Mariner'S Roost Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 36N35 (Bowerman Ridge), 0.1 mi from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 36N35 (Bowerman Ridge), 0.1 mi from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 36N35 (Bowerman Ridge): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,390 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mariner'S Roost Cg-FNIFC · 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 Mariner'S Roost Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery6 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- OOutfitter12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- WWater15 mi
- DDump16 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- LLaundry24 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- PPropane26 mi
- +Urgent care27 mi
- ShShower32 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 — Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
2,390 ft
Ground slope
63.3% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
40.83981, -122.76976
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Mariner'S Roost Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTrinity Lake · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)East Fork Stuart Fork (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townMinersville · ~1.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.1 mi
- FuelTrinity Center Fuels · ~10.6 mi
- Propane / LPGAirgas · ~26.2 mi
- Dump station~16.1 mi
- GroceriesTrinity Alps Resort General Store · ~6.3 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~24.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicTrinity Hospital · ~11.3 mi
EV charging — from Mariner'S Roost Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.7 mi straight-line SW — Weaverville, CA - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 46 within 50 · 106 within 100 · 175 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS20.4 mi — GF4EVA LAKEHEAD BB DC1, Lakehead
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO20.4 mi — GF4EVA LAKEHEAD BB DC1, Lakehead
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.5 mi — Yellow Jacket Eatery - Tesla Destination, Trinity Center, CA · 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 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 206611 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mariner'S Roost Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMariner'S Roost Cg-F · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRidgeville Island Cg-F · ~1.1 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTrinity Vista · ~1.1 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFairview Boat Ramp · ~1.4 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Mariner'S Roost Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Trinity Lake as a perennial lake or pond, 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 63.3% — 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on 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 Mariner'S Roost Cg-F elsewhere
Other camps near Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Ridgeville Island Cg-F~1.1 mi
- Trinity Lake Shoreline~1.5 mi
- Ridgeville Cg-F~1.6 mi
- Buckeye Camp~2.3 mi
The unit that manages Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Mariner'S Roost Cg-F are set by Shasta-Trinity National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
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 Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
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
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- 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 — Mariner'S Roost Cg-F
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →