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Mill Creek - Private
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.32298, -121.52367
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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 — Mill Creek - Private · Lassen National Forest · CA
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 28N06 (Big Bend), 0.4 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 Mill Creek - Private
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,561 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mill Creek - PrivateNIFC · 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 Mill Creek - Private · Lassen National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- WWater10 mi
- ShShower10 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- DDump15 mi
- HHardware15 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- MMechanic35 mi
- EVEV fast charger38 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
- RxPharmacy39 mi
- PPropane42 mi
- OOutfitter42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 38-mi run (and back).
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 — Mill Creek - Private
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,561 ft
Ground slope
49.6% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
40.32298, -121.52367
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Mill Creek - Private · Lassen National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMill Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.6 mi
- FuelFuel · ~14.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~14.8 mi
- GroceriesMineral Grocery · ~4.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicShingletown Medical Center · ~22.3 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~15.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Mill Creek - Private · Lassen National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger38.0 mi straight-line W — GF4EVA RED BLUFF DC3 · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 51 within 50 · 106 within 100 · 451 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)38.4 mi — Red Bluff, CA - Tesla Supercharger, Red Bluff
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)38.0 mi — GF4EVA RED BLUFF L2 · 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 198122 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mill Creek - Private · Lassen National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBrokenshire · ~1.6 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHole In The Ground · ~2.4 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMorgan Summit · ~2.9 mi N · USFS
- RestroomCXT Comfort Station Mineral Ballfield (HQ) · ~5.1 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — Mill Creek - Private · Lassen National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Mill 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 49.6% — 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.
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Other camps near Mill Creek - Private
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Hole-in-the-Ground Campground~2.2 mi
- Hole In The Ground~2.4 mi · fee
- Gurnsey Creek Group Campground~5.0 mi
- Battle Creek Campground~5.7 mi · fee
The unit that manages Mill Creek - Private
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Mill Creek - Private are set by Lassen National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Mill Creek - Private
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 Mill Creek - Private
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 — Mill Creek - Private
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →