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Wiley's Well Campground
Drive-up · Bureau of Land Management · CA · 33.49309, -114.88914
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Ask about this camp →Bureau of Land Management 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.
What the record says about the site — Wiley's Well Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- Tent camping
- Trailers and RVs fit
- No drinking water — carry your own
From the OpenStreetMap contributors listing for this site — their words, not our visit. Records go stale; treat it as a starting point and confirm anything your trip depends on.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Wiley's Well Campground
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 584 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Wiley's Well 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 Wiley's Well Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- DDump1 mi
- WWater8 mi
- @Mail10 mi
- GGrocery10 mi
- FFuel10 mi
- HHardware18 mi
- EVEV fast charger18 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- +Urgent care18 mi
- RxPharmacy19 mi
- ShShower36 mi
- AAir-up39 mi
- MMechanic56 mi
- OOutfitter57 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 10 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 — Wiley's Well Campground
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bureau of Land Management
Elevation
584 ft
Ground slope
1.9% · flat
Nearest highway
~7.9 mi · Interstate 10
State
CA
Coordinates
33.49309, -114.88914
Cost
Fee
Nearby & resupply — around Wiley's Well Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townPalo Verde · ~10.0 mi
- Nearest rail linenone mapped within 10 mi
- Nearest highway~7.9 mi · Interstate 10
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~8.1 mi
- FuelChevron · ~10.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesRanch Market · ~17.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicFresenius Kidney Care · ~18.3 mi
EV charging — from Wiley's Well Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger18.1 mi straight-line NE — CEC CORRIDOR BLYTH DENNY DC1, Blythe, CA · ChargePoint Network · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach5 within 25 mi · 13 within 50 · 82 within 100 · 457 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO18.6 mi — US Bank Blythe, Blythe
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)17.9 mi — PVCCHARGING STATION 3, Blythe, CA · 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 200713 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Wiley's Well Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomWileys Well Cg -Toilet 30 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomWileys Well Cg -Toilet 20 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomWileys Well Cg -Toilet 10 · at this camp · BLM
- RestroomCoon Hollow Cg -Toilet 30 · ~3.0 mi S · BLM
Coming out here — Wiley's Well Campground · Bureau of Land Management · CA
- 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 1.9% — 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 is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) — abandoned, lifted and out-of-service track excluded, so a rail-trail does not count as one.
- Interstate 10 is mapped ~7.9 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 Wiley's Well Campground elsewhere
Other camps near Wiley's Well Campground
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Coon Hollow~3.1 mi · fee
- Palo Verde Mountains Wilderness~9.1 mi
- Little Chuckwalla Mountains Wilderness~9.1 mi
- Wiley Well District Geode Beds~9.4 mi
The unit that manages Wiley's Well Campground
Wiley's Well Campground is in the Palm Springs/S. Coast Field Office, California Desert District, Bureau of Land Management. Stay limits, permits, road closures and fire restrictions are set there, not at the campsite — check before you go. Its page maps every camp in it.
How we know this — Wiley's Well 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.
Agency page
blm.gov — the land manager's own page for this site. Fees, seasons and closures are stated there first; if it disagrees with this page, it wins.
How it was placed
auto: drive (road/trail right there)
Site details
The OpenStreetMap contributors listing's own fields for this site (site type, whether tents or trailers fit, capacity, toilet, water, campfires, reservations). Printed as the record states them, unchecked by us, and never used to make a cost claim -- the cost verdict above is decided separately and audited before every deploy.
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 Wiley's Well 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.
- 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 — Wiley's Well Campground
What “dispersed” means here →Dumping grey & black →Hot-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →