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Stone Cabin
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CO · 39.01924, -106.23822
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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 Stone Cabin
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 8,869 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Stone CabinNIFC · 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 Stone Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · CO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater7 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- @Mail13 mi
- FFuel13 mi
- EVEV fast charger13 mi
- +Urgent care13 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- MMechanic16 mi
- DDump16 mi
- RxPharmacy36 mi
- AAir-up37 mi
- PPropane43 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 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 — Stone Cabin
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
8,869 ft
Ground slope
6.1% · gentle
State
CO
Coordinates
39.01924, -106.23822
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Stone Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · CO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureArkansas River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Clear Creek (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townGranite · ~2.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.8 mi
- FuelShell · ~15.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~15.8 mi
- GroceriesTwin Lakes General Store · ~8.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicHospital · ~14.4 mi
- HardwareRocky Mountain Lumber & Hardware · ~12.9 mi
EV charging — from Stone Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · CO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.8 mi straight-line SE — Electric Era Charging Station, Buena Vista, CO (at a public site) · ELECTRIC_ERA · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach7 within 25 mi · 46 within 50 · 351 within 100 · 461 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO13.8 mi — SDCEA SOUTH MAIN L3, Buena Vista
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.4 mi — SDCEA RIVERFRONT PARK, Buena Vista, CO · 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 428659 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Stone Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · CO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletDawson Cabin · ~6.2 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDexter · ~6.8 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletDexter Point · ~6.8 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletWeston Pass · ~6.8 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — Stone Cabin · Bureau of Land Management · CO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Arkansas River as a perennial river, ~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 6.1% — gentle. 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 Stone Cabin elsewhere
Other camps near Stone Cabin
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Dexter~6.8 mi · fee
- Weston Pass~6.8 mi · fee
- Whitestar~8.6 mi · fee
- Lakeview~8.6 mi · fee
The unit that manages Stone Cabin
Stone Cabin is in the Royal Gorge Field Office, Rocky Mountain 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.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Rough And Tumble at 10,420 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 1,551 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 — Stone Cabin
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 Stone Cabin
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 — Stone Cabin
When the high country opens →Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Getting unstuck →All field notes →