Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Mill Flat Cg
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · ID · 42.43011, -113.01271
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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 Flat Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 70565 (Sublett), 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 70565 (Sublett), 30 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 70565 (Sublett): “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 Mill Flat Cg
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,939 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mill Flat CgNIFC · 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 Flat Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- @Mail20 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- LLaundry26 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- +Urgent care37 mi
- WWater39 mi
- RxPharmacy40 mi
- DDump40 mi
- HHardware40 mi
- ShShower41 mi
- OOutfitter41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 39-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 Flat Cg
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,939 ft
Ground slope
2.2% · flat
State
ID
Coordinates
42.43011, -113.01271
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Mill Flat Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townSublett · ~10.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSchmidt Oil · ~11.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesThe Middle of Nowhere · ~12.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicPower County Hospital District · ~25.7 mi
EV charging — from Mill Flat Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.3 mi straight-line N — American Falls, ID - 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 14 within 50 · 48 within 100 · 150 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS26.6 mi — VALLEYWIDE COOP VALLEYWIDE COOP, American Falls
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO26.6 mi — VALLEYWIDE COOP VALLEYWIDE COOP, American Falls
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)40.6 mi — Burley, ID - Rivergate Crossings (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · 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 398004 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mill Flat Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMill Flat Cg · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSublett Cg · ~7.1 mi S · USFS
- Highway rest areaColdwater E · ~14.4 mi NW
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~17.0 mi NW · FWS
Coming out here — Mill Flat Cg · Sawtooth National Forest · ID
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 2.2% — flat. 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 Mill Flat Cg elsewhere
Other camps near Mill Flat Cg
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Sublett Cg~7.1 mi
- California National Historic Trail~14.6 mi
- Twin Springs Campground~17.1 mi
- Skalkaho-011~19.6 mi
The unit that manages Mill Flat Cg
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Mill Flat Cg are set by Sawtooth National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Mill Flat Cg
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 Flat Cg
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 — Mill Flat Cg
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →