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Shores
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · AZ · 33.02166, -110.73891
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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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Shores
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,002 ft.
Fire & smoke — around ShoresNIFC · 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 Shores · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail3 mi
- ShShower3 mi
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- RxPharmacy10 mi
- HHardware10 mi
- +Urgent care10 mi
- WWater10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- AAir-up26 mi
- DDump28 mi
- OOutfitter51 mi
- PPropane54 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 3 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 — Shores
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
2,002 ft
Ground slope
10.6% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~2.4 mi · other track
State
AZ
Coordinates
33.02166, -110.73891
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Shores · Bureau of Land Management · AZ (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureGila River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Ash Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townChristmas · ~2.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~2.4 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSpeedway · ~3.0 mi
- Propane / LPGLPG · ~27.8 mi
- Dump station~27.8 mi
- GroceriesSpeedway · ~3.0 mi
- PharmacyKearny Health Mart · ~10.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicChiropractor · ~10.1 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~10.0 mi
EV charging — from Shores · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger25.8 mi straight-line N — APS - Globe (Globe, AZ) · Electrify America · CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 8 within 50 · 137 within 100 · 176 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)49.4 mi — Tucson, AZ - E Skyline Dr - Tesla Supercharger, Tucson
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO38.7 mi — GPM INVESTMENTS 4613 DC2, Tucson
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.0 mi — Cobre Valley Regional Medical Center, Globe, AZ (at a hospital) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 4 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-11-06 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Holiday Inn Express & Suites Globe - Tesla Destination, Globe, 25.3 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 250746 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Shores · Bureau of Land Management · AZ — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet South - The Shores Recreation Site · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet North - The Shores Recreation Site · ~0.2 mi NE · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletChristmas Recreation Site · ~2.8 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletVault Toilet Trailhead - Aravaipa Canyon West Trailhead · ~13.0 mi SE · BLM
Coming out here — Shores · Bureau of Land Management · AZ
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Gila River as a perennial river, under 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 10.6% — noticeable. 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 ~2.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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 Shores elsewhere
Other camps near Shores
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Christmas~2.8 mi
- Homestead Climbing Area~10.8 mi
- Aravaipa Canyon Wilderness~13.0 mi
- Brandenburg Campground~13.2 mi
The unit that manages Shores
Shores is in the Tucson Field Office, Gila 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 — Shores
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)
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 Shores
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 — Shores
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →