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Tillamook County
Drive-up · public land · Tillamook County, OR · 45.61769, -123.68649
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This is a very remote, primitive campsite located in Tillamook State Forest. It is a wooded valley next to a refreshing creek. Dispersed camping is allowed, however fires mights not be allowed, depending on season. Campsite is off of a very low-traffic gravel road. Two vehicles passed during our 24 hours stay. Easily accessible, and located within a vast network of dirt roads worth exploring. There is sufficient space for a few vehicles. Highly recommended. No cell service.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 7 August 2017. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Tillamook County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 742 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Tillamook CountyNIFC · 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 Tillamook County · public land · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery8 mi
- WWater11 mi
- @Mail11 mi
- FFuel12 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- EVEV fast charger12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- AAir-up13 mi
- ShShower13 mi
- DDump13 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- PPropane28 mi
- LLaundry28 mi
- OOutfitter28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Tillamook County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
742 ft
Ground slope
3.3% · gentle
County
Tillamook County, OR
Coordinates
45.61769, -123.68649
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Tillamook County · public land · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Fork Kilchis River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townJordan Creek · ~6.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelChevron · ~11.7 mi
- Propane / LPGSuburban Propane · ~25.0 mi
- Dump station~13.4 mi
- GroceriesCenter Market · ~11.8 mi
- PharmacyNelahem Bay Health And Wellness Pharmacy · ~10.7 mi
- Hospital / clinicAdventist Health · ~13.3 mi
- HardwareOld Hickory Sheds · ~12.0 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
No
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Highly recommended
EV charging — from Tillamook County · public land · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger12.1 mi straight-line SW — Tillamook, OR - Tesla Supercharger (at an other entertainment) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 · 97 within 50 · 251 within 100 · 426 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS12.5 mi — WCEH Tillamook, Tillamook
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO12.5 mi — WCEH Tillamook, Tillamook
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.7 mi — NEHALEM BAY HEA #8, Wheeler, OR · 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 229093 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Tillamook County · public land · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBear Camp Viewpoint · ~7.2 mi W · USFS
- Highway rest areaSunset · ~16.5 mi NE
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~16.6 mi SW · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~17.5 mi SW · FWS
Coming out here — Tillamook County · public land · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Fork Kilchis 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 3.3% — 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.
- 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 Tillamook County elsewhere
Other camps near Tillamook County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Tillamook State Forest~6.8 mi
- Nestucca River Recreation Area~24.3 mi
Who holds the land at Tillamook County
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Forest Development Fund (Board Of Forestry), manager on record: Oregon Department of Forestry (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Tillamook County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Tillamook County, OR). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 7 August 2017. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Tillamook County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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