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Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
Drive-up · U.S. Forest Service · FL · 28.75855, -82.35471
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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 — Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL
No MVUM road within 1 mi of the pin; access may be a county road or unmapped.
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 →
What the record says about the site — Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL
- Room for 13 parties
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 Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 59 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation AreaNIFC · 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 Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel3 mi
- DDump3 mi
- GGrocery4 mi
- +Urgent care4 mi
- @Mail4 mi
- HHardware4 mi
- MMechanic4 mi
- OOutfitter4 mi
- WWater6 mi
- RxPharmacy12 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- ShShower15 mi
- LLaundry16 mi
- AAir-up30 mi
- PPropane49 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 3 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 — Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
Access
Drive-up
Land
U.S. Forest Service
Elevation
59 ft
Ground slope
2.4% · flat
State
FL
Coordinates
28.75855, -82.35471
Cost
Unpriced — no source gives a price; assume it may cost something and confirm before you go
Nearby & resupply — around Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWater · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townLandrum · ~1.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~5.9 mi
- FuelCircle K · ~5.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~3.3 mi
- GroceriesExpress Lane Food Store · ~3.5 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~12.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicHCA Florida Citrus Hospital · ~5.4 mi
- HardwareFloral City Hardware · ~3.6 mi
EV charging — from Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.3 mi straight-line S — Florida Cracker Cook Shack, Brooksville, FL · EV Connect · CHAdeMO, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach11 within 25 mi · 88 within 50 · 383 within 100 · 544 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)17.1 mi — Crystal River, FL - Tesla Supercharger, Crystal River
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)5.5 mi — City of Inverness - Parking Lot (at a parking lot) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-14 · 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 388311 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Stop or Truck Facility 38 · ~14.7 mi SE
- Highway rest areaNHS Rest Stop or Truck Facility 28 · ~14.8 mi SE
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~16.8 mi W · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~16.8 mi NW · FWS
Coming out here — Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area · U.S. Forest Service · FL
- Surface water mapped nearby: Water. 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 2.4% — 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.
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Other camps near Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Oak Hammock (Potts Preserve)~10.5 mi
- Oak Hammock (Potts Preserve)~10.5 mi
- Potts - River Primitive (Potts Preserve)~11.5 mi
- Hog Island Campground~11.8 mi
Who holds the land at Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Withlacoochee State Forest, manager on record: FL Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Florida Forest Service (state). Our own record names USFS as the manager. The two sources disagree, and we have not checked which is right. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
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.
Listed website
freshfromflorida.com — the page the mapper cited for this site. Not a land manager; read it as one more opinion.
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.
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 Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
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 — Withlacoochee State Forest Mutual Mine Recreation Area
Finding water out here →What “dispersed” means here →Hot-weather camping →Reading the aerial →All field notes →