★ Field-verified · Dave's ownUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
Umpqua National Forest
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · Douglas County, OR · 43.29389, -122.40225
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Small, free campground in Umpqua National Forest with vault toilet, fire rings, and picnic tables. On the shore of a picturesque reservoir. A forested area at a moderate elevation. Other campers and picnickers likely. No cell service. Enough room for two or three vehicles per site. Very close to the popular Umpqua Hot Springs. A large network of forest roads to explore with nearby hiking. Recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 13 January 2019. No agency publishes a season for this site itself (the road season below is the road's), so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year. The road season below, the MVUM's current dates for the nearest mapped road, does not include 13 January 2019. We do not know why; the map may have changed since.
Nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM — Umpqua National Forest · Umpqua National Forest · OR
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 3402053 (Lemolo 2 Forebay Campground), 50 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 3402053 (Lemolo 2 Forebay Campground), 50 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles May 1 – Nov 30. That season ends after Nov 30.
MVUM record for FR 3402053 (Lemolo 2 Forebay Campground): “05/01-11/30” 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 Umpqua National Forest
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,212 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Umpqua National ForestNIFC · 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 Umpqua National Forest · Umpqua National Forest · OR
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel10 mi
- LLaundry10 mi
- WWater14 mi
- @Mail16 mi
- EVEV fast charger16 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- GGrocery17 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
- HHardware31 mi
- RxPharmacy32 mi
- +Urgent care32 mi
- DDump32 mi
- MMechanic37 mi
- PPropane47 mi
- AAir-up47 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Umpqua National Forest
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
3,212 ft
Ground slope
13.6% · noticeable
County
Douglas County, OR
Coordinates
43.29389, -122.40225
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Umpqua National Forest · Umpqua National Forest · OR (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLemolo Forebay Number Two · under 0.1 mi · USGS: reservoir, no flow class
- Also mapped (OSM)Lemolo Forebay No. 2 (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townClearwater Village · ~2.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~15.5 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesSouth Store · ~17.1 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
Yes
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Umpqua National Forest · Umpqua National Forest · OR — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger15.6 mi straight-line SE — Pacific Power Diamond Lake (Diamond Lake, OR) · Electrify America · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 10 within 50 · 106 within 100 · 234 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)32.6 mi — Chemult, OR - Tesla Supercharger, Chemult
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO47.6 mi — WCEH Oakland (Rice Hill), Oakland
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)10.3 mi — Umpqua's Last Resort, Idleyld Park, OR · FLO · J1772 · 4 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 466504 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Umpqua National Forest · Umpqua National Forest · OR — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLemolo #2 Forebay Forest Camp · at this camp · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletToketee Lake Campground · ~1.5 mi S · USFS
- RestroomToketee Lake Trailhead (North Umpqua Trail) · ~1.5 mi S · USFS
- RestroomToketee Lake Picnic · ~1.5 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — Umpqua National Forest · Umpqua National Forest · OR
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lemolo Forebay Number Two as a reservoir (no flow class in the record), under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 13.6% — noticeable. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 Umpqua National Forest elsewhere
Other camps near Umpqua National Forest
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Toketee Lake Campground~1.5 mi · fee
- Clearwater #2 Forbay Forest Camp~2.0 mi
- Medicine Creek~3.8 mi
- Watson Creek Forest Camp~4.0 mi
The unit that manages Umpqua National Forest
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Umpqua National Forest are set by Umpqua National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Umpqua National Forest
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 (Douglas 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.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 13 January 2019. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Umpqua National Forest
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
- 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 — Umpqua National Forest
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Getting unstuck →All field notes →