Agency-listedBLMFree
Volcanic Tablelands BLM
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 37.43034, -118.42162
Ask an AI about this campsiteOpens Grok already loaded with this site. It reads the same records this page is built from, and links whatever it tells you.
Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Volcanic Tablelands BLM
Loading the latest forecast…
Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,441 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Volcanic Tablelands BLMNIFC · 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 Volcanic Tablelands BLM · Bureau of Land Management · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- EVEV fast charger4 mi
- FFuel4 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- MMechanic4 mi
- WWater5 mi
- LLaundry5 mi
- OOutfitter5 mi
- RxPharmacy5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- HHardware5 mi
- DDump15 mi
- ShShower17 mi
- AAir-up44 mi
- +Urgent care44 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 4 mi out.
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 — Volcanic Tablelands BLM
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
4,441 ft
Ground slope
5.3% · gentle
State
CA
Coordinates
37.43034, -118.42162
Cost
Free · dispersed public land, no fee in any source
Nearby & resupply — around Volcanic Tablelands BLM · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureFish Slough · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townBishop · ~4.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~4.6 mi
- FuelFuel · ~4.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~15.1 mi
- GroceriesMahogany smoked meats · ~3.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicNorthern Inyo Hospital · ~4.8 mi
EV charging — from Volcanic Tablelands BLM · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger3.7 mi straight-line S — Bishop, CA - Rocking West Drive - Tesla Supercharger (at a shopping center) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 24 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 reach6 within 25 mi · 10 within 50 · 114 within 100 · 258 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS4.2 mi — Vons 1753 (Bishop, CA), Bishop
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO5.3 mi — CalTrans - Bishop, Bishop
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)4.3 mi — Best Western Bishop Lodge - Tesla Destination · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 6 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- 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 311994 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Volcanic Tablelands BLM · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletPleasant Valley Pit Cg -Vault Toilet · ~5.3 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletPleasant Valley Pit Cg -Vault Toilet #2 · ~5.3 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHorton Creek Cg -Vault Toilet #1 · ~9.1 mi W · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletHorton Creek Cg -Vault Toilet #2 · ~9.2 mi W · BLM
Coming out here — Volcanic Tablelands BLM · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Fish Slough as a perennial stream, ~0.8 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 5.3% — 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.
- 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 Volcanic Tablelands BLM elsewhere
Other camps near Volcanic Tablelands BLM
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Bitterbrush Cg~12.5 mi · fee
- Big Trees Cg~14.3 mi · fee
- Grandview Cg~14.4 mi
- Forks Cg~14.9 mi · fee
The unit that manages Volcanic Tablelands BLM
Volcanic Tablelands BLM is in the Bishop Field Office, Central California District, Bureau of Land Management. 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 — Volcanic Tablelands BLM
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
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
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 Volcanic Tablelands BLM
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 — Volcanic Tablelands BLM
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →