Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
Drive-up · public land · WA · 47.84181, -120.66472
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. 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 Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,127 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Swallow Caves Dispersed CampingNIFC · 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 Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel3 mi
- GGrocery3 mi
- OOutfitter3 mi
- DDump3 mi
- ShShower3 mi
- WWater3 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- LLaundry6 mi
- EVEV fast charger7 mi
- RxPharmacy17 mi
- @Mail17 mi
- MMechanic21 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- AAir-up30 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 3 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 — Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
2,127 ft
Ground slope
0.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.8 mi · main line
State
WA
Coordinates
47.84181, -120.66472
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureChiwawa River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waterWater · ~3.4 mi
- FuelFuel · ~2.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationTrailer Dump Area · ~3.3 mi
- GroceriesMidway Grocery · ~2.6 mi
- PharmacySafeway · ~16.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicConfluence Health | Cashmere Clinic · ~24.0 mi
- HardwarePlain Hardware · ~5.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.8 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger6.9 mi straight-line SW — Leavenworth, WA - US-2 - Tesla Supercharger (at a rest stop) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. NACS partner enabled. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach5 within 25 mi · 25 within 50 · 318 within 100 · 434 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS16.9 mi — Albertsons Safeway 1589 (Leavenworth, WA), Leavenworth
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO17.0 mi — WCEH Leavenworth, Leavenworth
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)6.8 mi — 59er Diner, Leavenworth, WA (at a restaurant) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2024-01-09 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Mountain Springs Lodge - Tesla Destination, Leavenworth, 5.2 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 316903 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletAlder Ridge · ~0.7 mi N · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletGoose Creek · ~0.7 mi E · USFS
- Portable toiletFish Lake Sno-Park · ~1.3 mi W · USFS
- Portable toiletChiwawa Sno-Park · ~2.2 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Chiwawa 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 0.1% — flat. 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 ~6.8 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping elsewhere
Other camps near Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Alder Creek Horse Camp~0.7 mi
- Goose Creek~0.7 mi · fee
- Chelan County~2.3 mi
- Meadow Creek Campground~2.3 mi
The unit that manages Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Swallow Caves Dispersed Camping
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