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White Pine County
Drive-up · public land · White Pine County, NV · 39.03830, -114.59279
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Ask about this camp →Dave's been here. A spot from Dave's own travels on public land — free to camp. Conditions still change, so confirm access, stay limits and fire rules before you go.
A primitive clearing with a small fire ring on the side of a mountain along a lightly used forest road. Nice view to the east, and very secluded and private, but possible wind and exposure to the elements. Near old mines. Enough room for a few vehicles. Poor cell service. Recommended.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 8 April 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at White Pine County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 6,971 ft.
Fire & smoke — around White Pine CountyNIFC · 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 White Pine County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower12 mi
- FFuel20 mi
- GGrocery20 mi
- WWater20 mi
- DDump20 mi
- @Mail21 mi
- HHardware21 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- LLaundry21 mi
- MMechanic21 mi
- OOutfitter28 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 20-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 20 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 — White Pine County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
6,971 ft
Ground slope
4.9% · gentle
County
White Pine County, NV
Coordinates
39.03830, -114.59279
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around White Pine County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureStream · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townHogum · ~9.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~20.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump stationLehman RV Dump Station · ~20.3 mi
- GroceriesLove's · ~20.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicWilliam Bee Ririe Hospital · ~20.7 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
No signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
Yes
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from White Pine County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger20.7 mi straight-line NW — Ely, NV - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 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 reach1 within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 1 within 100 · 43 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS116.6 mi — Days Inn Beaver (Beaver, UT), Beaver
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO119.7 mi — Alamo NV DC, Alamo
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)20.5 mi — R Place Gas and Car Wash, Ely, NV (at a gas station) · TURNONGREEN · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-12-12 · 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 368025 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around White Pine County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletEly Elk Viewing Area - Vault Toilet · ~7.5 mi E · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletGarnet Hill Recreation Area - Vault Toilet · ~8.9 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletCleve Creek Recreation Area - Vault Toilets #1 · ~12.4 mi N · BLM
- Vault / pit toiletBerry Creek Campground · ~15.0 mi S · USFS
Coming out here — White Pine County · Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest · NV
- Surface water mapped nearby: Stream. That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- Ground slope around the pin: about 4.9% — gentle. Measured on USGS's 3DEP elevation model (10 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 White Pine County elsewhere
Other camps near White Pine County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Cleve Creek Campground~12.4 mi
- Berry Creek Campground~15.0 mi
- Wheeler Peak Campground~15.7 mi · fee
- Sacramento Pass Recreation Area~16.5 mi
The unit that manages White Pine County
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at White Pine County are set by Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — White Pine County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (White Pine County, NV). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 8 April 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about White Pine County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — White Pine County
Finding water out here →Reading a forest MVUM →Stay limits →First-night troubleshooting →All field notes →