Agency-listedUSFSUnpriced · confirmRoad season: open (MVUM)
White Rock Campground
OHV / 4×4 · U.S. Forest Service · CA · 40.25267, -123.02367
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Ask about this camp →U.S. Forest Service lists this as a developed campground. Expect marked sites, a fee station or a reservation, and the usual campground rules. The dispersed-camping freedom of the surrounding forest does not apply inside it. 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 Campground · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
The nearest road on the Forest Service MVUM is FR 28N19A (White Rock Gs), 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 28N19A (White Rock Gs), 10 ft from the pin, open to passenger vehicles year-round.
MVUM record for FR 28N19A (White Rock Gs): “01/01-12/31” 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 Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,883 ft.
Fire & smoke — around White Rock CampgroundNIFC · 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 Campground · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- +Urgent care22 mi
- EVEV fast charger29 mi
- WWater29 mi
- OOutfitter33 mi
- HHardware33 mi
- DDump36 mi
- MMechanic38 mi
- RxPharmacy39 mi
- PPropane39 mi
- AAir-up40 mi
- ShShower42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 29-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 10 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 Campground
Access
OHV / 4×4
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
4,883 ft
Ground slope
1.4% · flat
State
CA
Coordinates
40.25267, -123.02367
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around White Rock Campground · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePole Corral Creek · ~0.9 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Nearest townPayne · ~3.7 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelPlatina Store · ~10.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesPlatina Store · ~10.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicHayfork Clinic · ~22.5 mi
EV charging — from White Rock Campground · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger28.8 mi straight-line S — South Leggett (at a public site) · EVRANGE · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 47 within 50 · 104 within 100 · 393 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)32.7 mi — Weaverville, CA - Tesla Supercharger, Weaverville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)28.8 mi — South Leggett (at a public site) · EVRANGE · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 462384 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around White Rock Campground · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletStuart Gap (Trailhead) · ~3.2 mi SE · USFS
- Portable toiletPost Creek Guard Station · ~5.3 mi E · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletRat Trap Gap (Trailhead) · ~6.1 mi SE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBasin Gulch Cg-F · ~7.7 mi NE · USFS
Coming out here — White Rock Campground · Shasta-Trinity National Forest · CA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pole Corral Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.9 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.4% — 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.
Open White Rock Campground elsewhere
Other camps near White Rock Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Rat Trap Gap (Trailhead)~6.1 mi
- North Fork Beegum Creek Camp~6.3 mi
- Basin Gulch Cg-F~7.7 mi · fee
- Tomhead Saddle Cg-F~12.9 mi
The unit that manages White Rock Campground
Stay limits, road closures and fire restrictions at White Rock Campground are set by Shasta-Trinity National Forest, not by the campsite — check there before you go.
How we know this — White Rock Campground
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
likely OHV (only a rough 4wd track in) — confirm
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 Campground
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 Campground
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Reading a forest MVUM →Picking a spot →All field notes →