Agency-listedBLMFree
Packsaddle
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 35.45225, -114.16997
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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 Packsaddle
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,098 ft.
Fire & smoke — around PacksaddleNIFC · 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 Packsaddle · 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
- @Mail3 mi
- FFuel11 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- EVEV fast charger17 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- WWater20 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- DDump27 mi
- ShShower36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Packsaddle
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,098 ft
Ground slope
11.4% · noticeable
State
AZ
Coordinates
35.45225, -114.16997
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Packsaddle · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureTennessee Wash · ~0.3 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townChloride · ~3.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~11.1 mi
- Propane / LPGPropane · ~11.0 mi
- Dump station~26.7 mi
- GroceriesFood Mart · ~11.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~17.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicGolden Valley Medical Center · ~16.0 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~18.5 mi
EV charging — from Packsaddle · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger17.2 mi straight-line SE — Anderson Ford, Kingman, AZ (at a public site) · FORD_CHARGE · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach6 within 25 mi · 14 within 50 · 98 within 100 · 157 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.0 mi — Kingman, AZ - Tesla Supercharger, Kingman
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.5 mi — Kroger Smiths 190 (Kingman, AZ), Kingman
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)25.3 mi — Last Stop Travel Center, White Hills, AZ · Blink Network · 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 — Best Western Plus A Wayfarer's Inn - Tesla Destination, Kingman, 18.8 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas 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 447204 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Packsaddle · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPacksaddle Recreation · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletWindy Point Recreation · ~1.2 mi SE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletMonolith Garden Trailhead · ~17.6 mi S · BLM
- RestroomKA Lake Accessible Toilet Chili Pepper Cove 10 · ~25.8 mi SW · NPS
Coming out here — Packsaddle · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Tennessee Wash as an intermittent stream, ~0.3 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 11.4% — 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 Packsaddle elsewhere
Other camps near Packsaddle
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Windy Point Recreation Site~1.2 mi
- Mount Tipton Wilderness~6.0 mi
- Route 66 Historic Back Country Byway~21.9 mi
- Mohave County~23.2 mi
The unit that manages Packsaddle
Packsaddle is in the Kingman 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 — Packsaddle
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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 Packsaddle
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 — Packsaddle
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →All field notes →