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Patterson Pass Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · NV · 38.59160, -114.66760
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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 — Patterson Pass Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- Toilet on 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 Patterson Pass Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,176 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Patterson Pass CampgroundNIFC · 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 Patterson Pass Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail20 mi
- MMechanic26 mi
- WWater29 mi
- GGrocery30 mi
- FFuel30 mi
- DDump38 mi
- OOutfitter38 mi
- LLaundry41 mi
- ShShower41 mi
- EVEV fast charger46 mi
- HHardware47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 29-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 30 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 46-mi run (and back).
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 — Patterson Pass Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
6,176 ft
Ground slope
5.8% · gentle
State
NV
Coordinates
38.59160, -114.66760
Cost
Free · OpenStreetMap fee tag: no
Nearby & resupply — around Patterson Pass Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Patterson Pass Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger46.5 mi straight-line N — Ely, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 2 within 100 · 38 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS89.0 mi — Alamo NV DC, Alamo
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO89.0 mi — Alamo NV DC, Alamo
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)41.4 mi — The Whispering Elms, Baker, NV (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · 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 368025 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Patterson Pass Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBerry Creek Campground · ~16.2 mi N · USFS
- Highway rest areaPony Springs Rest Area · ~19.1 mi S
- Highway rest areaSunny Side Rest Area · ~21.0 mi SW
- Vault / pit toiletPatterson Pass Recreation/Trailhead Site Vault Toilet · ~21.3 mi SE · BLM
Coming out here — Patterson Pass Campground · Bureau of Land Management · NV
- 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 5.8% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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.
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Other camps near Patterson Pass Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Berry Creek Campground~16.2 mi
The unit that manages Patterson Pass Campground
Patterson Pass Campground is in the Caliente Field Office, Ely 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 — Patterson Pass 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
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 Patterson Pass 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 — Patterson Pass Campground
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →How to read this page →All field notes →