Mapped · not agency-listedPublic land · dispersedFree
Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
Drive-up · public land · WA · 46.59537, -121.21472
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Ask about this camp →A mapped lead, not an agency listing. Somebody marked this as a campsite; we could not match it to a land-manager record. Worth checking rather than counting on. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,339 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping AreaNIFC · 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 Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump4 mi
- WWater6 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- GGrocery12 mi
- HHardware22 mi
- EVEV fast charger22 mi
- @Mail22 mi
- LLaundry23 mi
- PPropane26 mi
- AAir-up26 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- MMechanic28 mi
- RxPharmacy30 mi
- OOutfitter35 mi
- ShShower39 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 9 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 — Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
3,339 ft
Ground slope
5.1% · gentle
State
WA
Coordinates
46.59537, -121.21472
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouth Fork Tieton River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Cedar Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townRimrock · ~6.4 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.4 mi
- Fuel76 · ~21.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~3.6 mi
- GroceriesTieton Sports & Country Store · ~11.9 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~29.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicNaches Medical Clinic · ~26.2 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~29.0 mi
EV charging — from Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.6 mi straight-line W — ESD PACKWOOD DCFC · ChargePoint Network · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 32 within 50 · 397 within 100 · 649 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)30.1 mi — CCSCW DCFC 3, Yakima
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)21.6 mi — ESD PACKWOOD L2 · 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 314134 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSouth Fork Tieton (Lower Bake Oven) · ~0.2 mi NE · USFS
- Portable toiletBear Creek Sno-Park · ~2.4 mi N · USFS
- Portable toiletSouth Fork Tieton Sno-Park · ~2.7 mi NW · USFS
- Portable toiletCold Creek Sno-Park · ~2.9 mi NW · USFS
Coming out here — Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area · Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps South Fork Tieton River as a perennial river, ~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 5.1% — 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.
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Other camps near Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lower Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area~0.2 mi
- Grey Creek Dispersed Camping Area~0.7 mi
- Minnie Meadows Dispersed Camping Area~3.0 mi
- Clear Lake (South)~3.4 mi · fee
The unit that manages Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area are set by Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
Source
OpenStreetMap contributors
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.
Agency page
fs.usda.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
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
Contributed, not agency-listed. A mapper marked this as a campsite. We have not matched it to a land-manager record, so it stays at Likely.
What we don’t know about Upper Bakeoven Dispersed Camping Area
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