Miners Gulch-003
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0102), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. 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 →
Everything you need — measured from Miners Gulch-003 · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT
- FFuel12 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- WWater24 mi
- PPropane25 mi
- GGrocery25 mi
- HHardware28 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- +Urgent care28 mi
- RxPharmacy30 mi
- OOutfitter33 mi
- EVEV fast charger38 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
- DDump41 mi
- ShShower46 mi
The read: water is a real 24-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Miners Gulch-003
Nearby & resupply — around Miners Gulch-003 · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureUpper Willow Creek · ~0.6 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Miners Gulch (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townCorral · ~10.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelCenex · ~11.5 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane Services Innovated · ~30.1 mi
- GroceriesFic's Food Store · ~24.8 mi
- PharmacyCorvallis Drug · ~29.5 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~27.8 mi
EV charging — from Miners Gulch-003 · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger37.7 mi straight-line E — Sinclair - Tesla Supercharger, Deer Lodge, MT (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-14 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 8 within 50 · 18 within 100 · 46 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS38.3 mi — L267 EXPP PL PUBLIC2, Missoula
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO40.8 mi — Walmart 3259 (Missoula, MT), Missoula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)32.9 mi — Hamilton City Hall · EVGATEWAY · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — The Ranch at Rock Creek - Tesla Destination, Philipsburg, 11.1 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.56 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 466520 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Miners Gulch-003 · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletStony Campground · ~6.4 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletStony Cabin · ~6.7 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomMorgan Case Homestead · ~8.2 mi W · USFS
- RestroomHogback Homestead · ~8.8 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Miners Gulch-003 · Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest · MT
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Upper Willow Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.6 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 14.5% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
- The game's day in this forest These lines are for the whole Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, not for this camp's own spot: a fire restriction is posted by county, and a forecast is for one point in the forest. A camp's own night can differ from that point, most in the mountains. Read when this page loads from the same daily files the game uses; every line says where it came from and when it was read.
- This camp's own spot: sun and fire record Worked out for this camp's recorded point from federal records, not for the whole forest. Every line says where it came from and when.
Sun behind the west ridge: (USGS 3DEP elevation, bare ground, 30-meter steps, finer close to camp; trees not counted; worked out October 15, 2026 for the 15th of each month, in this forest's clock; nobody has stood on it for this.)
Fire history: Inside the 2017 Little Hogback fire perimeter (34,508 acres), by the national fire history record. (NIFC InterAgency Fire Perimeter History, read October 15, 2026. This says where the record draws the line at this camp's recorded point, not what the ground here is like.)
- 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Miners Gulch-003 elsewhere
Other camps near Miners Gulch-003
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Miners Gulch-002~0.5 mi
- Miners Gulch-001~0.9 mi
- Black Pine Ridge-001~3.6 mi
- Upper Willow 02~5.0 mi
The unit that manages Miners Gulch-003
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Miners Gulch-003 are set by Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Black Pine at 7,170 ft, about 4 miles away. It sits about 1,561 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Miners Gulch-003
What we don’t know about Miners Gulch-003
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