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Rocky Point
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 34.47362, -118.02502
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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 — Rocky Point · Angeles National Forest · CA
No road within 1 mi of the pin in the national MVUM layer — and that layer carries no data at all for this forest (unit 0501), so this is the layer's silence, not the ground's. 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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Rocky Point
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,509 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Rocky PointNIFC · 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 Rocky Point · Angeles National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- MMechanic4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- +Urgent care4 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- WWater7 mi
- PPropane8 mi
- EVEV fast charger8 mi
- OOutfitter11 mi
- ShShower14 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- AAir-up24 mi
- DDump40 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 4 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 Point
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,509 ft
Ground slope
43.7% · steep
Nearest rail line
~5.0 mi · main line
State
CA
Coordinates
34.47362, -118.02502
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Rocky Point · Angeles National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLittle Rock Reservoir · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townLittlerock · ~4.0 mi
- Nearest rail line~5.0 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.6 mi
- FuelKwik Serv · ~4.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesFarmers Mart · ~4.0 mi
- PharmacyWalmart Pharmacy · ~5.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicHDMG Heritage · ~7.2 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~8.3 mi
EV charging — from Rocky Point · Angeles National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger8.3 mi straight-line NW — Palmdale Park & Ride · EVCS · CHAdeMO, CCS · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach43 within 25 mi · 653 within 50 · 1065 within 100 · 1355 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)11.2 mi — Palmdale, CA - 10th St W - Tesla Supercharger, Palmdale
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.2 mi — SCE83 - Vincent Substation, Palmdale, CA · OpConnect · 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 155913 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Rocky Point · Angeles National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomRocky Point · at this camp · USFS
- RestroomSage · ~0.3 mi S · USFS
- RestroomJuniper · ~0.4 mi N · USFS
- RestroomFisherman'S Point · ~0.7 mi N · USFS
Coming out here — Rocky Point · Angeles National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Little Rock Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 43.7% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~5.0 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Point elsewhere
Other camps near Rocky Point
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Sage~0.3 mi · fee
- Basin~1.2 mi · fee
- Mt. Pacifico~6.3 mi · fee
- Sulphur Springs Trail Camp~7.6 mi
The unit that manages Rocky Point
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Rocky Point are set by Angeles National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Rocky Point
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: no OVERNIGHT rate published by the agency. Our pin matches, to 0.001 mi, an EDW ROCKY POINT record whose seasonal_operational_status is CLOSED and whose only published fee is DAY USE -- $5 per vehicle per day, $30 per vehicle per year. No nightly figure exists anywhere: Angeles publishes no recreation page for it (both slugs 404) and recreation.gov returns no California listing at this pin. CAUTION, THREE CALIFORNIA SITES SHARE THIS NAME: a Sierra NF picnic site at 37.30,-119.54 ($10 per vehicle per day) and a FREE campground at 40.19,-121.11 are NOT this pin. fee left at 1 because a day-use fee is genuinely charged. Status not changed. Checked: https://apps.fs.usda.gov/arcx/rest/services/EDW/EDW_RecInfraRecreationSites_02/MapServer/0/query?where=site_name='ROCKY POINT' AND region='05'.
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 Rocky Point
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 — Rocky Point
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →