Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · OR · 43.99821, -121.78639
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 — Quinn Meadow Horse Camp · Deschutes National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 4600450 (Quinn Meadow), 20 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as crushed aggregate or gravel surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 4600450 (Quinn Meadow), 20 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 4600450 (Quinn Meadow): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; 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 Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,076 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Quinn Meadow Horse CampNIFC · 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 Quinn Meadow Horse Camp · Deschutes National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater2 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- OOutfitter19 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- FFuel20 mi
- @Mail20 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- HHardware23 mi
- PPropane23 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- ShShower23 mi
- MMechanic23 mi
- EVEV fast charger23 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- DDump35 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 11 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 — Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,076 ft
Ground slope
6.4% · gentle
State
OR
Coordinates
43.99821, -121.78639
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Quinn Meadow Horse Camp · Deschutes National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSink Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Drinking waterWater · ~1.6 mi
- FuelShell · ~19.6 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~23.2 mi
- GroceriesThree Creek Lake Store & Marina · ~10.6 mi
- PharmacyWestside Pharmacy · ~22.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicHigh Desert Family Medicine · ~19.5 mi
- HardwareAce · ~22.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Quinn Meadow Horse Camp · Deschutes National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger23.4 mi straight-line E — Walmart 2075 (Bend, OR) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach14 within 25 mi · 20 within 50 · 111 within 100 · 331 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)23.4 mi — Sisters, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Sisters
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO23.5 mi — WCEH Sisters, Sisters
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.3 mi — Mt. Bachelor Westside Village, Bend, OR (at a recreation facility) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 6 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-14 · hours: Open during parking lot hours
- 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 190192 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Quinn Meadow Horse Camp · Deschutes National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletQuinn Meadow Horse Camp · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSisters Mirror Lake · ~1.3 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletElk Lake · ~1.6 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletElk Lake · ~1.7 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Quinn Meadow Horse Camp · Deschutes National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Sink Creek as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 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 6.4% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (3 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 Quinn Meadow Horse Camp elsewhere
Other camps near Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Elk Lake~1.7 mi · fee
- Point~2.4 mi · fee
- Mallard Marsh Campground~2.5 mi · fee
- Little Fawn Group Site~2.5 mi · fee
The unit that manages Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Quinn Meadow Horse Camp are set by Deschutes National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
Longest rig
40 ft (Maximum site spur length is 40 feet)
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
Developed FEE campground (not free) - review | auto:usfs-fee 2026-08-20: US Forest Service developed campground, agency coordinates, agency states a fee. No dollar amount in the agency record -- expect a charge and confirm the current rate before you go. Not field-verified. | Fee 2026-08-22: this is an equestrian camp priced by how many horses the site holds, not by a single standard-site rate: $25 per night for a 2-horse campsite and $29 per night for a 4-horse campsite, with one vehicle included and $10 for each additional vehicle. recreation.gov's 2026 peak season (May 29 to Sep 26) lists exactly the same $25 and $29. Senior and Access passes get 50 percent off the single camping unit fee only. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r06/deschutes/recreation/quinn-meadow-horse-camp and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/233788.
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 Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
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 — Quinn Meadow Horse Camp
What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Dumping grey & black →Leave no trace →All field notes →