Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.14054, -122.82916
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this site. On most of their ground you can camp away from developed sites pretty much anywhere — so treat this as a known-good spot, not the only one allowed. The unit sets stay limits and how far off road and water you must be. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Tomhead Saddle Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 27N06 (Tomhead Mtn), 80 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 3 – suitable for passenger cars.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 27N06 (Tomhead Mtn), 80 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 27N06 (Tomhead Mtn): “01/01-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
From the Forest Service's own Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW, Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026), straight-line from the pin to the nearest mapped segment. The nearest segment is not necessarily the way in, a maintenance level is the agency's class and not a report on today, and a road's season is the road's — it is not a campground order. What the levels mean → What an MVUM is →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,628 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Tomhead Saddle Cg-FNIFC · AirNow
Checking active fires & air quality…
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 Tomhead Saddle Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery12 mi
- LLaundry12 mi
- FFuel16 mi
- @Mail16 mi
- EVEV fast charger27 mi
- MMechanic31 mi
- RxPharmacy31 mi
- HHardware31 mi
- WWater32 mi
- +Urgent care32 mi
- AAir-up32 mi
- OOutfitter36 mi
- PPropane37 mi
- DDump37 mi
- ShShower42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 32-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 12 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 — Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
5,628 ft
Ground slope
28% · steep
State
CA
Coordinates
40.14054, -122.82916
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Tomhead Saddle Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCedar Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townShackleford Place · ~5.1 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelPlatina Store · ~15.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesPlatina Store · ~15.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicRestpadd Red Bluff Psychiatric Health Facility · ~31.1 mi
EV charging — from Tomhead Saddle Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger26.9 mi straight-line SW — South Leggett (at a public site) · EVRANGE · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 46 within 50 · 116 within 100 · 447 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)31.5 mi — Starbucks Red Bluff MB.HPC, Red Bluff
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)26.9 mi — South Leggett (at a public site) · EVRANGE · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 462384 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Tomhead Saddle Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletTomhead Saddle Cg-F · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRat Trap Gap (Trailhead) · ~6.8 mi NW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletIdes Cove Horse Packer · ~7.1 mi S · USFS
- Portable toiletPost Creek Guard Station · ~8.3 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Tomhead Saddle Cg-F · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: Cedar Creek (stream). That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 28% — 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 Tomhead Saddle Cg-F elsewhere
Other camps near Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Rat Trap Gap (Trailhead)~6.8 mi
- Green Springs Campground~12.8 mi
- White Rock Campground~12.9 mi
- North Fork Beegum Creek Camp~13.2 mi
The unit that manages Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Tomhead Saddle Cg-F are set by Shasta-Trinity National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
Source
U.S. Forest Service recreation data
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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
Nearest MVUM road
US Forest Service Motor Vehicle Use Map roads layer (EDW_MVUM_01, layer 1), Clearinghouse refresh Aug 30, 2026. Straight-line distance from the pin to the nearest mapped segment within 1 mi; surface type, maintenance level and open dates are the agency's own values for that segment, expanded from its codes and otherwise unedited. Nothing here says which road reaches the site.
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 Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
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 that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- How many rigs actually fit
- Cell coverage by carrier
- 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 — Tomhead Saddle Cg-F
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →