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USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · St. Louis County, MN · 48.30437, -92.20437
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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 — USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
What the record says about the site — USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN
- Tent camping
- Campfires allowed on the record -- check today's restrictions
- Toilet on site
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,325 ft.
Fire & smoke — around USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MNNIFC · 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 USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail13 mi
- FFuel14 mi
- OOutfitter14 mi
- WWater25 mi
- ShShower29 mi
- DDump32 mi
- HHardware32 mi
- LLaundry32 mi
- GGrocery32 mi
- RxPharmacy32 mi
- MMechanic32 mi
- +Urgent care34 mi
- EVEV fast charger56 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 25-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 14 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 56-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Propane. Plan those before you head up.
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 — USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
1,325 ft
Ground slope
26.7% · steep
County
St. Louis County, MN
Coordinates
48.30437, -92.20437
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBeartrack Lake · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Nearest townLac La Croix · ~5.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelAnderson's · ~13.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Groceriesnone within 30 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
EV charging — from USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger55.6 mi straight-line S — Ken Waschke Auto Plaza, VIRGINIA, MN · EV Connect · CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · none within 50 · 6 within 100 · 23 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)80.7 mi — Tofte, MN - Tesla Supercharger, Tofte
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO56.0 mi — VIRGINIA PU VETS MEMORIAL, Virginia
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)13.3 mi — CRANE LAKE VC AFPQO000003XW8C, Crane Lake, MN · ChargePoint Network · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 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 353736 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletLittle Indian Sioux River Carry Down · ~10.9 mi S · USFS
- RestroomNSP B107 King Williams Campground Comfort Station · ~12.1 mi W · NPS
- RestroomNSP B245 Casareto Day Use Comfort Station · ~12.3 mi W · NPS
- RestroomNSP B100 Mukooda Lake Campground Comfort Station · ~12.7 mi W · NPS
Coming out here — USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN · Superior National Forest · MN
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Beartrack Lake as a perennial lake or pond, 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 26.7% — 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 USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN elsewhere
Other camps near USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- USFS dispersed camp #3 — St. Louis County, MN~0.3 mi
- USFS dispersed camp — St. Louis County, MN~0.4 mi
- Crane Lake Site 1~11.6 mi
- Lake Jeanette Site 10~11.6 mi
The unit that manages USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN are set by Superior National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
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.
How it was placed
no road or trail found nearby — check manually
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
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
Before you go — USFS dispersed camp #2 — St. Louis County, MN
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Forest road numbers →Getting unstuck →All field notes →