Agency-listedUSFSFeeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Silver Bar
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CO · 39.14625, -106.89319
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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 — Silver Bar · White River National Forest · CO
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 125.1A (Silver Bar Campground), 50 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as asphalt surface and maintenance level 5 – high degree of user comfort.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 125.1A (Silver Bar Campground), 50 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 27 – Oct 3. That season ends after Oct 3.
MVUM record for FR 125.1A (Silver Bar Campground): “05/27-10/03” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; 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 Silver Bar
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,435 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Silver BarNIFC · 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 Silver Bar · White River National Forest · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater4 mi
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- OOutfitter5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- +Urgent care17 mi
- HHardware19 mi
- LLaundry24 mi
- PPropane25 mi
- RxPharmacy25 mi
- DDump38 mi
- ShShower45 mi
- AAir-up56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Silver Bar
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
8,435 ft
Ground slope
10.2% · noticeable
State
CO
Coordinates
39.14625, -106.89319
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Silver Bar · White River National Forest · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMaroon Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townAspen · ~4.5 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterWater · ~4.5 mi
- FuelConoco · ~5.0 mi
- Propane / LPG7-Eleven · ~24.8 mi
- GroceriesCity Market · ~5.0 mi
- PharmacyCity Market Pharmacy · ~25.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicDr. Moore · ~17.4 mi
- HardwareClear-Vu Window Tinting · ~18.8 mi
EV charging — from Silver Bar · White River National Forest · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger4.5 mi straight-line NE — Aspen, CO - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · 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 reach8 within 25 mi · 42 within 50 · 136 within 100 · 461 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS4.9 mi — CITY OF ASPEN S GALENA LEVEL3, Aspen
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO4.9 mi — CITY OF ASPEN S GALENA LEVEL3, Aspen
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)3.2 mi — ASPEN SKIING CO HIGHLANDS #1 · ChargePoint Network · 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 102078 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Silver Bar · White River National Forest · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSilver Bar · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSilver Bell · ~0.2 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSilver Queen · ~1.3 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletSnowmass · ~4.5 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Silver Bar · White River National Forest · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Maroon Creek as a perennial stream, 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 10.2% — noticeable. 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.
Open Silver Bar elsewhere
Other camps near Silver Bar
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Silver Bell~0.2 mi · fee
- Silver Queen~1.3 mi · fee
- Difficult Gcg~6.4 mi · fee
- Weller Cg~9.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Silver Bar
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Silver Bar are set by White River National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Castle Peak at 11,510 ft, about 10 miles away. It sits about 3,075 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Silver Bar
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 2026-08-27: $15 per night for a single site. Confirmed by two sources: the White River NF campground page (updated Apr 27 2026) and recreation.gov facility 231881, 0.087 mi from this pin, which charges $15 -- and which lists every site as TENT ONLY non-electric, so do not plan on bringing a trailer here. Aspen-Sopris Ranger District, Maroon Creek Road. Source: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r02/whiteriver/recreation/silver-bar-campground and https://www.recreation.gov/camping/campgrounds/231881.
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 Silver Bar
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 — Silver Bar
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →What “dispersed” means here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →