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Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
Drive-up · Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources · AL · 32.02914, -85.46277
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Ask about this camp →Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. 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 Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 330 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)NIFC · 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 Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild) · Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources · AL
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel5 mi
- GGrocery5 mi
- @Mail5 mi
- MMechanic11 mi
- +Urgent care15 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- RxPharmacy21 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- DDump25 mi
- WWater32 mi
- ShShower33 mi
- OOutfitter37 mi
- AAir-up41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 32-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 5 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 — Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources
Elevation
330 ft
Ground slope
1% · flat
State
AL
Coordinates
32.02914, -85.46277
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild) · Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources · AL (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~4.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~25.4 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~4.7 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~20.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicHurtsboro Family Clinic · ~14.9 mi
- HardwareIron Mule · ~17.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild) · Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources · AL — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger20.8 mi straight-line SE — Eufaula, AL - Tesla Supercharger (at a municipal building) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 16 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 reach8 within 25 mi · 50 within 50 · 142 within 100 · 501 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS21.0 mi — COMMUNITY CHARG SOUTHEAST DIV-2, Eufaula
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO21.0 mi — COMMUNITY CHARG SOUTHEAST DIV-2, Eufaula
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)21.0 mi — CITY OF EUFAULA SCC 1 · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 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 356063 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild) · Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources · AL — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~20.7 mi E · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~20.8 mi E · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~21.4 mi E · FWS
- Highway rest areaBarbour County Rest Area · ~23.9 mi SE
Coming out here — Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild) · Alabama Dept. of Conservation & Natural Resources · AL
- No named surface water mapped within 1 mi of the pin in USGS's National Hydrography Dataset (data refreshed October 2022), and none within about a mile and a half in our OpenStreetMap pull — which is not proof there is none, only that neither map has one. Plan to carry washing water as well as drinking water.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1% — flat. 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.
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Who holds the land at Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Barbour Wildlife Management Area, manager on record: Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (state). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
Open season
Campsites are available on scheduled open weekends on a first come, first served basis. Gates open at 2 p.m. on Friday with a checkout time of 3 p.m. Sunday (scheduled weekends only).
Source
public land records
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
Alabama Forever Wild Land Trust, Wehle Tract, Bullock County (1,505 acres). SOURCE: alabamaforeverwild.com/wehle-tract read 2026-08-16, Camping section, verbatim: "The Wehle Land Conservation Center has 9 campsites with power and water hook-ups (no sewer available). Campsites are available on scheduled open weekends on a first come, first served basis. Additional spaces are available with no power or water. There is no fee for these campsites. Gates open at 2 p.m. on Friday with a checkout time of 3 p.m. Sunday (scheduled weekends only). Amenities include horse stalls and paddocks, covered pavilion, showers and restrooms. Upon arrival, check in with the camp host." *** THE BIG CATCH: THIS IS NOT AN ANY-NIGHT CAMPGROUND. It is open on SCHEDULED OPEN WEEKENDS ONLY, Friday 2 p.m. to Sunday 3 p.m. ADCNR publishes the schedule as 'Open Weekend Recreation Schedule' on the same page. Do not send anyone here without checking that schedule first; phone 334-529-3003. *** Hiking access from the Pleasant Hill Road parking lot is available seven days a week, but that is day use, not camping. Hunting on the Wehle tract is limited to the Barbour County WMA portion. COORDINATE: ADCNR's GIS camping point (provenance below). The tract page separately prints 'Coordinates: 32.032148, -85.456321' for the property/entrance, about 700 m NE of this point -- we used the GIS camping point because it is the one tagged as camping. COORDINATE PROVENANCE: this point is ADCNR's own GIS -- the public ArcGIS service https://conservationgis.alabama.gov/adcnrweb/rest/services/Activities/MapServer/0, layer name 'Camping', queried 2026-08-16 (13 points statewide). It is the agency's mapped camping symbol -- the same symbol that appears in the 'Camping Area' legend on ADCNR's WMA permit maps -- NOT a field visit and NOT a geocode. ADCNR publishes no per-site facility list for these points, so table / fire ring / toilet presence is UNKNOWN and no water source is claimed. Eight of the thirteen points carry no Name attribute at all; the name on this row is OURS, built from the Forever Wild tract and WMA polygons the point falls inside (ForeverWildTracts/MapServer/0 and WildlifeManagementAreas/MapServer/0, same service, same day). It is not a sign on the ground. Nearest town: Midway ~4.8 mi -- STRAIGHT-LINE distance to the nearest OpenStreetMap place=city/town/village, NOT a driving distance; in the Mobile-Tensaw Delta and on the Cumberland Plateau the way in is far longer. Ingest 2026-08-16. | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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 Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
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 the open dates above hold this year — we could not read them into a season check, so nothing here has compared them with today
- Road surface & last-mile access
- 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 — Wehle Land Conservation Center campground (Wehle Tract, Forever Wild)
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →Off-grid communication →All field notes →