Agency-listedBLM · dispersedFree
Weston Hills
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · WY · 44.63609, -105.33736
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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 Weston Hills
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 3,808 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Weston HillsNIFC · 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 Weston Hills · Thunder Basin National Grassland · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail20 mi
- MMechanic22 mi
- FFuel23 mi
- GGrocery24 mi
- LLaundry25 mi
- AAir-up25 mi
- WWater25 mi
- RxPharmacy26 mi
- +Urgent care26 mi
- EVEV fast charger26 mi
- HHardware26 mi
- OOutfitter26 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 25-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 23 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 — Weston Hills
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management · dispersed
Elevation
3,808 ft
Ground slope
1.3% · flat
State
WY
Coordinates
44.63609, -105.33736
Cost
Free · no fee, per the land manager's own page (blm.gov, read 2026-09-19)
Nearby & resupply — around Weston Hills · Thunder Basin National Grassland · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~23.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesGrocery · ~24.0 mi
- PharmacyMedical Hill Pharmacy · ~25.5 mi
- Hospital / clinicWalk-In Clinic & Occupational Health · ~25.5 mi
- HardwareHardware Hank · ~25.6 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Weston Hills · Thunder Basin National Grassland · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger25.5 mi straight-line S — Gillette, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 9 within 100 · 24 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS25.6 mi — Kroger Smiths 180 (Gillette, WY), Gillette
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO79.7 mi — ELKHORNRIDGE EV 1, Spearfish
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)27.8 mi — The Butte, Gillette, WY · Blink 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 102514 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Weston Hills · Thunder Basin National Grassland · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletWeston · ~0.4 mi NW · USFS
- RestroomSoda Well · ~18.4 mi SE · USFS
- Highway rest areaI-90 MM 138 Turnout eastbound · ~23.7 mi S
- Highway rest areaI-90 MM 138 Turnoutwestbound · ~23.7 mi S
Coming out here — Weston Hills · Thunder Basin National Grassland · WY
- 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 1.3% — 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.
- 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.
Open Weston Hills elsewhere
The unit that manages Weston Hills
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at Weston Hills are set by Thunder Basin National Grassland, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — Weston Hills
Fee note
No fee, per the BLM page, read 19 Sep 2026: "No Fee. WESTON HILLS PHOTOS" https://www.blm.gov/visit/weston-hills
Source
Bureau of Land Management recreation data
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
BLM RIDB record, agency-listed. Its fee field is empty -- no fee statement -- so the cost is unpriced (field read 2026-09-19). Access not field-checked (assumed drive-up). | No fee 2026-09-19: "No Fee. WESTON HILLS PHOTOS" Source: https://www.blm.gov/visit/weston-hills (worker_W, statement verified on that page).
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 Weston Hills
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 — Weston Hills
Water on public land →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →