Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Markleeville Campground
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 38.69735, -119.77376
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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 — Markleeville Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 31001 (Markleeville Campground Road), 30 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 31001 (Markleeville Campground Road), 30 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 31001 (Markleeville Campground Road): “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 Markleeville Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,476 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Markleeville 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 Markleeville Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- WWater10 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- DDump18 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- PPropane20 mi
- AAir-up56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Markleeville Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,476 ft
Ground slope
9.5% · noticeable
State
CA
Coordinates
38.69735, -119.77376
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Markleeville Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMarkleeville Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townMarkleeville · ~0.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMarkleeville Gas Station · ~0.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~18.0 mi
- GroceriesEast Fork Resort · ~1.4 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~16.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicCarson Valley Medical Center · ~15.6 mi
- HardwareAhern Equipment Rental · ~15.9 mi
EV charging — from Markleeville Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.1 mi straight-line E — Gardnerville, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 6 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach12 within 25 mi · 37 within 50 · 305 within 100 · 778 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS16.7 mi — Raley's, Gardnerville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO16.7 mi — Raley's, Gardnerville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.6 mi — ALPINE CO. BHS 1, Markleeville, CA · 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 122335 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Markleeville Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMarkleeville Campground · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomToilet Structure · ~0.7 mi SE · BLM
- RestroomIndian Ck Toilet #3 · ~3.2 mi N · BLM
- RestroomIndian Ck Res Rec Site-Toilt-2 · ~3.4 mi N · BLM
Coming out here — Markleeville Campground · U.S. Forest Service · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Markleeville Creek as a perennial stream, 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 9.5% — 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.
- 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 Markleeville Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Markleeville Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Indian Creek Recreation Area~3.0 mi
- Indian Creek Campground~3.4 mi
- Centerville Flat Campground~5.3 mi
- Centerville Flat Campground~5.4 mi
Who holds the land at Markleeville Campground
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Toiyabe National Forest, manager on record: Forest Service (federal). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Markleeville 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) | Fee 2026-09-24: $26 per night, single site (+$6 per extra vehicle), per the page's own text and the Recreation.gov 2026 season; the same page's fee summary still shows an older $18. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r04/humboldt-toiyabe/recreation/markleeville-campground (figure verified on that page); Recreation.gov's current 2026 season prices it the same: https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/10291477.
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 Markleeville 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 — Markleeville Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →All field notes →