Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Panther Meadows Cg
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 41.35502, -122.20182
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service 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.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Panther Meadows Cg · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 41N78 (Panther Meadow Cg), 340 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 41N78 (Panther Meadow Cg), 340 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 41N78 (Panther Meadow Cg): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
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 Panther Meadows Cg
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,477 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Panther Meadows CgNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Panther Meadows Cg · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- +Urgent care7 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- DDump8 mi
- AAir-up10 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- PPropane42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Panther Meadows Cg
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,477 ft
Ground slope
9.9% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~6.5 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~6.8 mi · Interstate 5
State
CA
Coordinates
41.35502, -122.20182
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Panther Meadows Cg · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePanther Creek · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townHoward · ~4.9 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.5 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~6.8 mi · Interstate 5
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.4 mi
- FuelValero · ~6.5 mi
- Propane / LPGBlue Star Gas · ~7.3 mi
- Dump station~8.1 mi
- GroceriesBerryvale Grocery · ~6.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicMercy Medical Center Mount Shasta · ~6.7 mi
- HardwareSolano's Contractors Building Supply · ~7.4 mi
EV charging — from Panther Meadows Cg · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.6 mi straight-line SW — Electric Era Charging Station, Mount Shasta, CA (at a public site) · ELECTRIC_ERA · CCS · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach12 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 98 within 100 · 157 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)6.7 mi — Mount Shasta, CA - 134 Morgan Way - Tesla Supercharger, Mount Shasta
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO6.7 mi — GF4EVA MT SHASTA DC, Mount Shasta
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.7 mi — HOSPITAL MMCMS SO PARK 1, Mount Shasta, CA · 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 367757 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Panther Meadows Cg · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPanther Meadows Cg · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBunny Flat · ~1.6 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRed Fir Flat Cg · ~2.8 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletEveritt Memorial Vista · ~3.0 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Panther Meadows Cg · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Panther Creek as a perennial stream, ~0.8 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 9.9% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.5 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 5 is mapped ~6.8 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 Panther Meadows Cg elsewhere
Other camps near Panther Meadows Cg
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Red Fir Flat Cg~2.8 mi · fee
- Mcbride Springs Cg-F~4.2 mi · fee
- Fowlers Camp Cg-F~12.0 mi · fee
- Castle Lake Campground~12.4 mi
The unit that manages Panther Meadows Cg
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Panther Meadows Cg are set by Shasta-Trinity National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Panther Meadows Cg
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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
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 Panther Meadows Cg
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.
- Whether that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Panther Meadows Cg
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Reading your camp page →All field notes →