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Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
Dispersed · Ohio Division of Forestry · OH · 39.34343, -82.75405
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Nearest town per ODNR office/property address: Londonderry.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 771 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp DullenNIFC · 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 Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen · Ohio Division of Forestry · OH
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- MMechanic6 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- WWater10 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- ShShower12 mi
- DDump12 mi
- OOutfitter16 mi
- AAir-up28 mi
- PPropane58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 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 — Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
Access
Dispersed
Land
Ohio Division of Forestry · dispersed
Elevation
771 ft
Ground slope
14% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~7.6 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~8.1 mi · US Hwy 35
State
OH
Coordinates
39.34343, -82.75405
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen · Ohio Division of Forestry · OH (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelMarathon · ~5.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~12.4 mi
- GroceriesLondonderry Drive Through · ~5.6 mi
- PharmacyKroger Pharmacy · ~11.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicAdena DaVita Dialysis · ~12.1 mi
- HardwareLowe's · ~11.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~7.6 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~8.1 mi · US Hwy 35
EV charging — from Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen · Ohio Division of Forestry · OH — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.8 mi straight-line W — Coughlin Chevrolet Buick GMC Of Chillicothe · EV Connect · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach9 within 25 mi · 81 within 50 · 243 within 100 · 415 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)12.0 mi — Chillicothe, OH - Tesla Supercharger, Chillicothe
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO12.2 mi — YOCTANGEE COC 1, Chillicothe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)11.8 mi — NOURSE TOYOTA TOYOTA SRV, Chillicothe, OH · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 328172 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen · Ohio Division of Forestry · OH — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaJackson US35 WB · ~12.3 mi S
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~13.7 mi W · NPS
- RestroomHMG Comfort Station · ~18.2 mi SW · NPS
- Highway rest areaHocking US33 EB · ~20.0 mi NE
Coming out here — Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen · Ohio Division of Forestry · OH
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 14% — noticeable. 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 ~7.6 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. No track the atlas classes as a main line is mapped within 10 mi. 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.
- US Hwy 35 is mapped ~8.1 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.
- 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.
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- Zaleski State Forest Backpack Trail - Camp 2~24.7 mi
Who holds the land at Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Tar Hollow State Forest, manager on record: Ohio Department of Natural Resources (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
Stay limit
14 nights (14 days in any 30-day period)
Source
public land records
Confidence
Agency-confirmed — The managing agency's own record names this as a campsite and puts it at these coordinates. About as good as it gets short of standing here.
How it was placed
VERIFY BEFORE PUBLISHING: ODNR GIS carries this named point "Camp Dullen" with subtype "Primitive Camping", status ACTIVE. However neither the Tar Hollow property page nor the official Tar Hollow forest brochure describes it, and the ODNR State Forests Guide lists only H(46) - the horse camp - under Tar Hollow's camp codes. So the GIS and the brochures disagree about whether this is public camping. Treated as free under the project rule (not National Forest, not developed), but a reviewer should call the forest office before this is published. Sources: Coordinates from ODNR Points of Interest GIS layer, https://gis.ohiodnr.gov/arcgis/rest/services/OIT_Services/ODNR_POI/MapServer/0 (read 2026-08-14). | https://dam.assets.ohio.gov/image/upload/ohiodnr.gov/documents/forestry/maps/State_Forest_Guide_Update_10082024.pdf | https://ohiodnr.gov/go-and-do/plan-a-visit/find-a-property/tar-hollow-state-forest (all read 2026-08-14). State forest camping rule OAC 1501:3-3-06: no permit for more than 14 days in any 30-day period; max 10 persons per campsite. OAC 1501:3-3-01: camping only in designated areas. OAC 1501:3-3-07 caps state forest camping at $46/night and lets the chief waive fees - it is a ceiling, not the charged rate. Sources: https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-1501:3-3-06 | https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-1501:3-3-01 | https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-administrative-code/rule-1501:3-3-07 | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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 Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
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 — Tar Hollow State Forest - Camp Dullen
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