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Painted Rock
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 33.02189, -113.04985
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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.
What the record says about the site — Painted Rock · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Room for 60 parties
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Painted Rock
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 573 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Painted RockNIFC · 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 Painted Rock · 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
- FFuel15 mi
- GGrocery15 mi
- WWater16 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- EVEV fast charger19 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- @Mail20 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- MMechanic34 mi
- PPropane36 mi
- RxPharmacy38 mi
- HHardware40 mi
- DDump51 mi
- AAir-up54 mi
- OOutfitter54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 15 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 — Painted Rock
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
573 ft
Ground slope
0.8% · flat
Nearest rail line
~8.9 mi · passing siding
Nearest highway
~8.7 mi · Interstate 8
State
AZ
Coordinates
33.02189, -113.04985
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Painted Rock · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townPapago · ~7.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~8.9 mi · passing siding
- Nearest highway~8.7 mi · Interstate 8
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~19.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLove's · ~19.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~19.0 mi
EV charging — from Painted Rock · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger19.1 mi straight-line E — Gila Bend, AZ - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 16 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 9 within 50 · 125 within 100 · 191 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS20.6 mi — Gila Bend, AZ, Gila Bend
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO40.3 mi — Walmart 3407 (Buckeye, AZ), Buckeye
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)36.1 mi — PW-CH CITY HALL CT4K, Buckeye, AZ · ChargePoint Network · 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 122249 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Painted Rock · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet 1 - Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet 2 - Painted Rock Petroglyph Campground · at this camp · BLM
- Highway rest areaSentinel (WB) · ~16.5 mi SW
- Highway rest areaSentinel (EB) · ~17.2 mi SW
Coming out here — Painted Rock · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- 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 0.8% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~8.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a passing siding. 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 ~8.7 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.
- 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 Painted Rock elsewhere
Other camps near Painted Rock
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Woolsey Peak Wilderness~11.3 mi
The unit that manages Painted Rock
Painted Rock is in the Lower Sonoran Field Office, Phoenix 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 — Painted Rock
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)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Painted Rock
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 — Painted Rock
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Off-grid communication →All field notes →