Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 32.74462, -114.25136
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Muggins Mountain Wilderness
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,208 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Muggins Mountain WildernessNIFC · 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 Muggins Mountain Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- HHardware8 mi
- MMechanic8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- PPropane12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- DDump18 mi
- WWater20 mi
- OOutfitter21 mi
- ShShower21 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 20-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
1,208 ft
Ground slope
103.6% · steep
Nearest rail line
~5.1 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~5.7 mi · Interstate 8
State
AZ
Coordinates
32.74462, -114.25136
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Muggins Mountain Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMorgan Wash · ~0.5 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townLigurta · ~5.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~5.7 mi · Interstate 8
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelCircle K · ~8.0 mi
- Propane / LPGYuma Oil · ~11.7 mi
- Dump station~17.8 mi
- GroceriesFourth Ave Mini Mart & Smokeshop · ~8.8 mi
- PharmacyFry's · ~12.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicClinic · ~8.7 mi
- HardwareWellton Hardware · ~7.7 mi
EV charging — from Muggins Mountain Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger8.6 mi straight-line SE — Chevron - Tesla Supercharger, Wellton, AZ (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-11 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 9 within 50 · 34 within 100 · 157 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS19.5 mi — Pilot Travel Center 1208, Yuma
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO63.1 mi — US Bank Blythe, Blythe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.7 mi — Las Quintas RV Resort, Yuma, AZ (at a RV park) · LOOP · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.53 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 465058 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Muggins Mountain Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~13.7 mi W · FWS
- Vault / pit toiletMittry Lake · ~13.7 mi W · BLM
- RestroomRestroom 1 - Bettys Kitchen · ~14.7 mi W · BLM
- RestroomRestroom 4 - T.K. Jones Campground · ~16.9 mi NW · BLM
Coming out here — Muggins Mountain Wilderness · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Morgan Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.5 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 103.6% — 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.
- The game's day in this field office These lines are for the whole Yuma Field Office (Quartzsite), not for this camp's own spot: a fire restriction is posted by the agency's own page for the whole office, and a forecast is for one point in the field office. A camp's own night can differ from that point. 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.)
- Rail line mapped ~5.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 8 is mapped ~5.7 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Muggins Mountain Wilderness elsewhere
Other camps near Muggins Mountain Wilderness
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Mittry Lake Wildlife Area~13.7 mi
- Imperial Dam Long Term Visitor Area~17.8 mi · fee
- Little Picacho Wilderness~22.7 mi
- BLM public land~23.8 mi
The unit that manages Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Muggins Mountain Wilderness is in the Yuma Field Office, Colorado River District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "There are no permits, passes, or fees required to visit this wilderness area. It is free. However, commercial, competitive, and large organized group events require a special recreation permit . Contact the local managin…" https://www.blm.gov/visit/muggins-mountain-wilderness
Source
Bureau of Land Management 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
USFS/BLM authoritative: free & dispersed. Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "There are no permits, passes, or fees required to visit this wilderness area. It is free. However, commercial, competitive, and large organized group events require a special recreation permit . Contact the local managin…" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/muggins-mountain-wilderness (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Muggins Mountain Wilderness
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 — Muggins Mountain Wilderness
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →