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Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
Hike-in · Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry · PA · 41.73079, -77.43008
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Ask about this camp →Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
DCNR records: fire ring, picnic table.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,129 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007NIFC · 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 Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007 · Tioga State Forest · PA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- OOutfitter1 mi
- DDump2 mi
- ShShower2 mi
- WWater3 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- GGrocery7 mi
- FFuel7 mi
- RxPharmacy7 mi
- HHardware7 mi
- LLaundry7 mi
- +Urgent care8 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- AAir-up11 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- PPropane38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 7 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 — Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
Access
Hike-in
Land
Pennsylvania Bureau of Forestry
Elevation
1,129 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
Nearest rail line
~6.9 mi · main line
State
PA
Coordinates
41.73079, -77.43008
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007 · Tioga State Forest · PA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePine Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Darling Run (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townAnsonia · ~1.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.9 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~2.5 mi
- FuelFuel · ~7.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~2.5 mi
- GroceriesTops · ~7.0 mi
- PharmacyCVS Pharmacy · ~6.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicSoldiers + Sailors Memorial Hospital · ~6.8 mi
- HardwareDenney Electric Supply · ~6.9 mi
EV charging — from Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007 · Tioga State Forest · PA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.5 mi straight-line E — Mansfield, PA - Tesla Supercharger (at a gas station) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 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 reach2 within 25 mi · 34 within 50 · 193 within 100 · 574 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS31.3 mi — Kightlinger Motors, COUDERSPORT
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO40.4 mi — S-R CPE2502, Elmira
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.3 mi — Tioga State Forest - Pine Creek Rail Trail, Wellsboro, PA (at a park) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-05-12 · 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 194085 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007 · Tioga State Forest · PA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Stop or Truck Facility 46 · ~19.6 mi NE
Coming out here — Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007 · Tioga State Forest · PA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pine Creek as a perennial stream, 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 1.4% — 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 ~6.9 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- 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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The unit that manages Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
Primitive campsite Darling Run 007 is in Tioga State Forest, a state forest managed by PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry. 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 — Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
Fire rules
You must obtain permission from the state forest to have a campfire from March 1 through May 25; no campfires are permitted when the state forest district forester determines the forest fire danger to be high, very high, or extreme.
Permit
A free permit is required to stay at a campsite more than one night, to stay at a site marked "permit required", or to have a campfire during spring wildfire season
Source
public land records
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
PA DCNR Bureau of Forestry designated campsite, Tioga State Forest (district 16), DCNR type "Primitive". Coordinate is DCNR's own, from its public Designated Campsites layer read 2026-08-15: https://maps.dcnr.pa.gov/agsprod/rest/services/BOF/Camping/MapServer/0 (the layer behind https://maps.dcnr.pa.gov/bof/camping/). DCNR records the positional source for this point as "PaMAP". FEE. DCNR (read 2026-08-15 at https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dcnr/recreation/what-to-do/stay-overnight/overnight-prices-and-policies): "Motorized roadside, hike-in roadside, equestrian, and rustic campsites can be reserved for a fee of $10.00 a night for Pennsylvania residents and $15.00 a night for non-residents. Additional taxes and fees may apply. These prices are effective as of November 3, 2022." Reserve through the PA State Parks and Forests reservation system (888-727-2757); this site carries a reservation system ID in DCNR's layer. Stay limit and permit: DCNR (https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dcnr/recreation/what-to-do/stay-overnight/backpacking-and-primitive-camping) - backpackers "are permitted to camp in most areas of the forest without a permit if staying no more than one night in any location"; a free permit is required to stay at a campsite more than one night, to stay at a site marked "permit required", or to have a campfire during spring wildfire season. Camp no closer than "200 feet of a forest road", "25 feet of a trail" or "100 feet of a stream or any open water". Fire: DCNR (https://www.pa.gov/agencies/dcnr/recreation/what-to-do/stay-overnight/backpacking-and-primitive-camping) - "No campfires are permitted when the state forest district forester determines the forest fire danger to be high, very high, or extreme." From March 1 through May 25 you must have the district's permission to have a campfire at all. Check with the district before you go. Pine Creek Gorge: DCNR's Tioga State Forest camping page says "camping permits are always required in the Pine Creek Gorge, regardless of the type of camping." DCNR Permit field: Yes. DCNR description: "Tioga State Forest - Darling Run Camping Area. NO vehicle access. Located 8 miles south of the northern terminus of PCRT and 1 mi. south of Darling Run Access. Hike/bike/float in only. Visit the PA State Parks and Forests Reservation System to reserve and view additional details." DCNR note: "New camping area 2022. Seventh site added later." Not field-checked by us. Seasonal road closures and district-level restrictions are not in this layer - check with the district office. Nearest USGS GNIS populated place: Ansonia, about 1.1 mi straight-line. | 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 Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
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.
- Whether the fire rule stated above still stands today — what we have is a dated reading of the agency's listing, not a live restriction feed
- Road surface & last-mile access
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- Seasonal & winter access
- 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 — Tioga State Forest primitive campsite Darling Run 007
Finding water out here →Fire rules & restrictions →First-night troubleshooting →Getting unstuck →All field notes →