Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Marion Mountain Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 33.79232, -116.73195
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Marion Mountain Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 4S71B (Marion Mtn Campground), 30 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 4 – moderate degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 4S71B (Marion Mtn Campground), 30 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 4S71B (Marion Mtn Campground): “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 Marion Mountain Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,462 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Marion Mountain 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 Marion Mountain Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel2 mi
- GGrocery2 mi
- LLaundry2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- WWater3 mi
- +Urgent care3 mi
- HHardware3 mi
- MMechanic3 mi
- OOutfitter3 mi
- RxPharmacy4 mi
- EVEV fast charger10 mi
- PPropane11 mi
- ShShower11 mi
- DDump25 mi
- AAir-up29 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Marion Mountain Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
6,462 ft
Ground slope
14.3% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~8.9 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~9.0 mi · Interstate 10
State
CA
Coordinates
33.79232, -116.73195
Cost
Fee · priced on the land manager's own page (recreation.gov, read 2026-09-18)
Nearby & resupply — around Marion Mountain Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Fork San Jacinto River · ~0.5 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townPine Wood · ~1.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~9.0 mi · Interstate 10
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~0.3 mi
- FuelFuel · ~3.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~25.4 mi
- GroceriesPine Cove Gas & Market · ~2.4 mi
- PharmacyIdyllwild Pharmacy · ~3.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicDesert Regional Medical Center · ~11.3 mi
- HardwareSandlin & Son Equipment Rental · ~3.2 mi
EV charging — from Marion Mountain Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.8 mi straight-line NW — Morongo Casino Resort and Spa, Cabazon, CA · eVgo Network · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-15 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach41 within 25 mi · 209 within 50 · 1090 within 100 · 1276 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)10.0 mi — Cabazon, CA - Morongo Trail - Tesla Supercharger, Cabazon
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.5 mi — Silver Pines Lodge, Idyllwild-Pine Cove, CA · Blink 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 228113 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Marion Mountain Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaWhitewater Eastbound · ~9.8 mi NE
- Highway rest areaWhitewater Westbound · ~9.8 mi NE
- Highway rest areaBrookside · ~20.1 mi NW
- RestroomSanta Rosa Vc · ~20.4 mi SE · BLM
Coming out here — Marion Mountain Campground · San Bernardino National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Fork San Jacinto River as a perennial river, ~0.5 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 14.3% — noticeable. 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 ~8.9 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.
- Interstate 10 is mapped ~9.0 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Marion Mountain Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Marion Mountain Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Fern Basin Campground~0.4 mi · fee
- Dark Canyon Campground~0.8 mi
- Seven Pines Yellow Post Sites~1.2 mi
- Yellow Post 2~2.5 mi
The unit that manages Marion Mountain Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Marion Mountain Campground are set by San Bernardino National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Marion Mountain Campground
Fee note
$20.00 a night per the Recreation.gov page, read 18 Sep 2026: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231973
Reserve
https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231973
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) | Fee 2026-09-18: $20.00 per night, single site. Source: https://www.recreation.gov/api/camps/campgrounds/231973 (fee_backfill, figure verified on that 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 Marion Mountain 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.
- 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 — Marion Mountain Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Power off-grid →All field notes →