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Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 36.36077, -120.85167
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,800 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)NIFC · 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 Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel17 mi
- MMechanic18 mi
- GGrocery18 mi
- @Mail18 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- WWater19 mi
- RxPharmacy19 mi
- HHardware19 mi
- DDump19 mi
- ShShower19 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- LLaundry19 mi
- AAir-up36 mi
- PPropane45 mi
- OOutfitter52 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 17 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 — Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
2,800 ft
Ground slope
18.2% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
36.36077, -120.85167
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLaguna Creek · ~0.6 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townLonoak · ~7.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelValero · ~17.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~18.8 mi
- GroceriesOzzy's Minimart · ~18.2 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~26.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicMee Memorial Children's Health & Wellness Center · ~18.9 mi
- HardwareSoledad Hardware & Lbr Inc · ~26.8 mi
EV charging — from Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.4 mi straight-line SW — King City Town Square · eVgo Network · 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 reach9 within 25 mi · 44 within 50 · 435 within 100 · 983 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.0 mi — King City, CA - Tesla Supercharger, King City
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)18.8 mi — Pinnacles National Park - Pinnacles Visitor Center, Paicines, CA (at a national park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-05-12 · 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 230758 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLaguna Mtn Upper Sweetwater Cg -Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLaguna Mtn Lower Cg -Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLaguna Mtn Lower Sweetwater Access Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletLaguna Mtn Upper Sweetwater Trailhd-Vault Toilet · at this camp · BLM
Coming out here — Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Laguna Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.6 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 18.2% — steep. 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 Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) elsewhere
Other camps near Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Laguna Mountain~1.3 mi
- Condon Peak~10.5 mi
- Griswold Hills~14.0 mi
- Tumey Hills~21.2 mi
The unit that manages Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM) is in the Central Coast Field Office, Central California 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 — Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
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.
Agency page
blm.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
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 Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
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 — Sweetwater Laguna Mountain Campground (Free, BLM)
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Reading your camp page →All field notes →