Rocky Knoll
Inside a national park unit
Rocky Knoll sits inside Lassen Volcanic National Park — a national park run by the National Park Service.
Park rules apply, and they are stricter than dispersed camping: inside a National Park Service unit you camp in a designated campground or on a backcountry permit, not wherever you find a flat spot. Check the park before you go: nps.gov/lavo ↗
Our record names USFS as the land manager; the Park Service’s own boundary map puts this point inside the unit. Two agencies disagree about one spot — ask the park first.
Placed by point-in-polygon against the National Park Service’s own boundary layer (NPS Land Resources Division, 442 units, fetched 18 Sep 2026; this unit’s polygon edited 2015-08-19). Nothing about the price or the legal status on this page was changed by it.
No MVUM road within a quarter mile of the pin; the nearest mapped segment is FR 31N35 (White Pine), 0.8 mi away. Access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
Everything you need — measured from Rocky Knoll · Lassen National Forest · CA
- FFuel2 mi
- ShShower2 mi
- WWater2 mi
- DDump2 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- GGrocery11 mi
- LLaundry14 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- HHardware22 mi
- MMechanic27 mi
- EVEV fast charger30 mi
- RxPharmacy36 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
- OOutfitter39 mi
- PPropane45 mi
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 2 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 — Rocky Knoll
Nearby & resupply — around Rocky Knoll · Lassen National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureManzanita Creek · ~1.0 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townMineral · ~6.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~2.4 mi
- FuelFuel · ~2.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.5 mi
- GroceriesMineral Grocery · ~10.6 mi
- Hospital / clinicShingletown Medical Center · ~17.3 mi
- HardwareAyoob's Intermountain Hardware · ~21.6 mi
EV charging — from Rocky Knoll · Lassen National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger29.6 mi straight-line N — Burney, CA - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 39 within 50 · 87 within 100 · 407 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS38.6 mi — Safeway 0273 (Anderson, CA), Anderson
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO38.9 mi — GF4EVA VITTLES DC, Anderson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)35.9 mi — Foothill High School, Palo Cedro, CA · EV Connect · J1772 · 4 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 296733 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Rocky Knoll · Lassen National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletRocky Knoll · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomComfort Station D Loop Building #305 (ML) · ~2.0 mi N · NPS
- RestroomCXT Comfort Station (Double), MLCG, B-Loop (ML) · ~2.0 mi N · NPS
- RestroomComfort Station B Loop Building #304 (ML) · ~2.0 mi N · NPS
Coming out here — Rocky Knoll · Lassen National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Manzanita Creek as an intermittent stream, ~1.0 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 40.3% — 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.
- 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 Rocky Knoll elsewhere
Other camps near Rocky Knoll
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Big Pine~10.5 mi · fee
- Battle Creek Campground~11.0 mi · fee
- Mill Creek - Private~12.3 mi
- Willow Lake Dispersed Camping Area~12.5 mi
The unit that manages Rocky Knoll
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Rocky Knoll are set by Lassen National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Rocky Knoll
What we don’t know about Rocky Knoll
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