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Spring Recreation Site
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · OR · 44.37655, -117.23891
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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 Spring Recreation Site
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,128 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Spring Recreation SiteNIFC · 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 Spring Recreation Site · Bureau of Land Management · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery2 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- ShShower5 mi
- DDump5 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- WWater10 mi
- HHardware16 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- MMechanic17 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- RxPharmacy28 mi
- OOutfitter60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 2 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — Spring Recreation Site
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
2,128 ft
Ground slope
19.6% · steep
Nearest rail line
~0.9 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~2.8 mi · Interstate 84
State
OR
Coordinates
44.37655, -117.23891
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Spring Recreation Site · Bureau of Land Management · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBrownlee Reservoir · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)Burnt River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townHuntington · ~2.2 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~2.8 mi · Interstate 84
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelTravel Plaza · ~18.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~4.8 mi
- GroceriesRidley's Family Market · ~16.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicWeiser Memorial Hospital · ~16.3 mi
- HardwareHarbor Freight Tools · ~28.5 mi
EV charging — from Spring Recreation Site · Bureau of Land Management · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger2.3 mi straight-line SW — T & T Country Store (Huntington, OR) · Electrify America · CHAdeMO, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 7 within 50 · 42 within 100 · 75 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)28.3 mi — Ontario, OR - Southeast 10th Street - Tesla Supercharger, Ontario
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.3 mi — Grand Opera House, Vale, OR · SYNERGEV · 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 121714 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Spring Recreation Site · Bureau of Land Management · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomToilet, Entrance, Cxt · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomDouble Cxt Toilet, Boat Launch · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomToilet, New, Concrete, East · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomToilet, New, Concrete, West · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — Spring Recreation Site · Bureau of Land Management · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Brownlee Reservoir as a perennial lake or pond, 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 19.6% — steep. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~0.9 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.
- Interstate 84 is mapped ~2.8 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Spring Recreation Site elsewhere
Other camps near Spring Recreation Site
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Steck Park~1.3 mi
- Kiwanis~16.9 mi
- Justrite~18.1 mi
- Paradise~18.3 mi
The unit that manages Spring Recreation Site
Spring Recreation Site is in the Baker Field Office, Vale 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 — Spring Recreation Site
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 Spring Recreation Site
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 — Spring Recreation Site
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →All field notes →