Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
Drive-up · public land · CO · 37.52164, -106.76806
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. 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 — Pass Creek Dispersed Campground · Rio Grande National Forest · CO
- Listed as a backcountry site
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 Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at the elevation shown above.
Fire & smoke — around Pass Creek Dispersed CampgroundNIFC · 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 Pass Creek Dispersed Campground · Rio Grande National Forest · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- @Mail12 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- MMechanic21 mi
- WWater22 mi
- DDump24 mi
- OOutfitter24 mi
- RxPharmacy25 mi
- HHardware26 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
- ShShower53 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 22-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Ground slope
15.8% · steep
State
CO
Coordinates
37.52164, -106.76806
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Pass Creek Dispersed Campground · Rio Grande National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePass Creek · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townLucky Seven Summer Homes · ~4.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~21.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~23.5 mi
- GroceriesRainbow Grocery · ~12.5 mi
- PharmacyCity Market Pharmacy · ~24.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicRio Grande Hospital · ~24.5 mi
EV charging — from Pass Creek Dispersed Campground · Rio Grande National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.6 mi straight-line S — WCSA LEVEL 3 ESP250, Pagosa Springs, CO · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 18 within 50 · 63 within 100 · 231 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)22.2 mi — CENTENNIAL PARK PAGOSA SPGS PL2, Pagosa Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.6 mi — WCSA LEVEL 2 - MID, Pagosa Springs, CO · 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 191393 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Pass Creek Dispersed Campground · Rio Grande National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletTucker Ponds · ~1.9 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletTucker Ponds · ~1.9 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBig Meadows · ~1.9 mi NW · USFS
- RestroomBig Meadows - Winter · ~2.3 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Pass Creek Dispersed Campground · Rio Grande National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pass Creek as a perennial stream, ~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 15.8% — 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.
- 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.
- 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 Pass Creek Dispersed Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Dispersed Camping~0.1 mi
- Big Meadows Campground~2.0 mi · fee
- Tucker Ponds Campground~2.0 mi
- Park Creek Campground~5.3 mi
The unit that manages Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Pass Creek Dispersed Campground are set by Rio Grande National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Wolf Creek Summit at 10,930 ft, about 3 miles away. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
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 — Pass Creek Dispersed Campground
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Cold-weather camping →How to read this page →All field notes →