Agency-listedUSFSFreeRoad season: open (MVUM)
White Rock
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 39.41966, -120.39014
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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 — White Rock · Tahoe National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 0086-070 (White Rock Lake), 10 ft from the pin. The MVUM lists it as native material surface and maintenance level 2 – high-clearance vehicles.
Road season: open (MVUM) The MVUM lists FR 0086-070 (White Rock Lake), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles Apr 24 – Dec 31. That season ends after Dec 31.
MVUM record for FR 0086-070 (White Rock Lake): “04/24-12/31” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-22; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
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 →
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at White Rock
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,902 ft.
Fire & smoke — around White RockNIFC · 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 Rock · Tahoe National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- WWater6 mi
- FFuel6 mi
- GGrocery6 mi
- @Mail7 mi
- OOutfitter9 mi
- EVEV fast charger11 mi
- PPropane12 mi
- HHardware12 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- MMechanic12 mi
- DDump13 mi
- ShShower16 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- AAir-up29 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 6 mi out.
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 Rock
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
7,902 ft
Ground slope
13.7% · noticeable
Nearest rail line
~6.6 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~6.0 mi · Interstate 80
State
CA
Coordinates
39.41966, -120.39014
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around White Rock · Tahoe National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWhite Rock Lake · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial lake or pond
- Also mapped (OSM)White Rock Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townSoda Springs · ~6.7 mi
- Nearest rail line~6.6 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~6.0 mi · Interstate 80
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~6.1 mi
- FuelChevron · ~11.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~13.3 mi
- GroceriesSticks market · ~9.7 mi
- PharmacyRite Aid · ~11.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicUrgent Care - Olympic Valley · ~17.5 mi
- HardwareSierra Hardware · ~25.3 mi
EV charging — from White Rock · Tahoe National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.0 mi straight-line SE — Truckee, CA - Deerfield Drive - Tesla Supercharger (at a restaurant) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 12 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 reach14 within 25 mi · 59 within 50 · 279 within 100 · 669 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS11.1 mi — Truckee, CA, Truckee
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO11.3 mi — DC CORRIDOR LUCKYS SS DC2, Soda Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)11.3 mi — DC CORRIDOR LUCKYS SS L2, Soda Springs, CA · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Woodward Tahoe/Boreal Mountain Resort, Soda Springs, 6.1 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 356459 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around White Rock · Tahoe National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletMeadow Knoll Ohv · ~4.9 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMeadow Lake Shoreline · ~5.6 mi W · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletLake Of The Woods · ~5.8 mi N · USFS
- RestroomDonner Summit · ~6.0 mi SE · USFS
Coming out here — White Rock · Tahoe National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps White Rock Lake as a perennial lake or pond, ~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 13.7% — noticeable. 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.
- Rail line mapped ~6.6 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. The atlas also records Amtrak service on it. That is the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026), which records that a line is there and what class of track it is. Whether anything runs on it, how often, and at what hour, it does not say, and nobody has checked this one for you.
- Interstate 80 is mapped ~6.0 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Rock elsewhere
Other camps near White Rock
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Castle Peak~4.5 mi
- Meadow Knoll Ohv~4.9 mi · fee
- Meadow Lake Shoreline~5.6 mi · fee
- Lake of the Woods Campground~5.7 mi
The unit that manages White Rock
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at White Rock are set by Tahoe National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — White Rock
Source
U.S. Forest Service 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
Free but developed (not dispersed) - review
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 White Rock
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 that MVUM road is the way in, and the last stretch beyond it
- Whether the site itself closes on its own schedule — only the road's season is on record
- 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 — White Rock
When the high country opens →Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Picking a spot →All field notes →