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Mitchell Creek
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · WA · 47.97031, -120.19191
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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 — Mitchell Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
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 0617), 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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Mitchell Creek
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,128 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Mitchell CreekNIFC · 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 Mitchell Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump4 mi
- ShShower4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- WWater7 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- EVEV fast charger15 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- RxPharmacy21 mi
- OOutfitter21 mi
- AAir-up35 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 — Mitchell Creek
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,128 ft
Ground slope
11% · noticeable
State
WA
Coordinates
47.97031, -120.19191
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Mitchell Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMitchell Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townManson · ~6.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~6.6 mi
- FuelFuel · ~6.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~3.5 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~3.6 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~20.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicLake Chelan Community Hospital Clinics · ~12.1 mi
- HardwareLake Chelan Building Supply · ~6.2 mi
EV charging — from Mitchell Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.6 mi straight-line NE — WCEH City of Pateros · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 21 within 50 · 166 within 100 · 453 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.7 mi — Entiat, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Entiat
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.3 mi — Wapato Point Resort, Manson, WA · Blink Network · J1772 · 4 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 — Harmony Meadows Tennis & Event Center - Tesla Destination, Manson, 3.5 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
Level 2, restricted access — Mountain View Lodge & Resort, Manson, 6.2 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guest use only · AFDC lists it “Free” - 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 333271 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Mitchell Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMitchell Creek · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletFields Point Landing · ~1.0 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAntilon Lake · ~1.4 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSnowberry Bowl · ~4.6 mi W · USFS
Coming out here — Mitchell Creek · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Mitchell 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 11% — 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 Mitchell Creek elsewhere
Other camps near Mitchell Creek
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Antilon Lake~1.4 mi
- Chelan County~2.7 mi
- Snowberry Bowl~4.6 mi · fee
- Grouse Mountain Campground~5.6 mi
The unit that manages Mitchell Creek
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Mitchell Creek are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Mitchell Creek
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-20: no nightly camping rate is published by the agency. This is a boat-in campground on Lake Chelan and the only fee the Forest Service publishes for it is the Lake Chelan Federal Dock Site Permit, required May 1 to October 31, at $10 per day or $75 per season, bought through recreation.gov. Checked https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/okanogan-wenatchee/recreation/mitchell-creek-campground.
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 Mitchell Creek
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 — Mitchell Creek
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Picking a spot →All field notes →