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Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
Drive-up · public land · KS · 39.54829, -97.65571
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Ask about this camp →The land manager lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Concordia's Airport Park campground is fee-BY-DONATION for short stays -- the city's own wording -- so there is no set nightly charge, but you are expected to drop something in the box. Up to 7 days. The city describes 10 drive-through and 4 back-in pads with water and electric, a dump station on site, and utilities available year round. Note that 4 spots are set aside for long-term camping at $150 per week; those are NOT the donation sites, so make sure you are parked in the right ones. The deal these towns offer is simple: camp free, and they hope you buy fuel, groceries or dinner in town. Be a good guest and it stays free for the next traveler. Town rules change often and we have not visited -- confirm current rules with the town before you go.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,452 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Airport Park Campground (Concordia)NIFC · 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 Airport Park Campground (Concordia) · public land · KS
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery0 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- MMechanic1 mi
- EVEV fast charger1 mi
- RxPharmacy1 mi
- @Mail2 mi
- HHardware2 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- ShShower20 mi
- DDump32 mi
- OOutfitter39 mi
- LLaundry47 mi
- AAir-up49 mi
- WWater50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 50-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
1,452 ft
Ground slope
6.6% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~1.7 mi · main line
State
KS
Coordinates
39.54829, -97.65571
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Airport Park Campground (Concordia) · public land · KS (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWater · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townConcordia · ~1.6 mi
- Nearest rail line~1.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelPhillips 66 · ~0.7 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~0.3 mi
- PharmacyHealth Mart Pharmacy · ~0.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicCloud County Health Center · ~1.5 mi
- HardwareGibson Ace Hardware · ~29.5 mi
EV charging — from Airport Park Campground (Concordia) · public land · KS — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger0.7 mi straight-line N — Heartland Energy Services, Concordia, KS · EVGATEWAY · CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 13 within 50 · 41 within 100 · 131 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.8 mi — LOVE'S 647 - KS #647 DC1, Belleville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO43.6 mi — 81 EXPRESS EAST STATION, Hebron
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.6 mi — 81E CANOPY1, Concordia, KS · 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 376602 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Airport Park Campground (Concordia) · public land · KS — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Airport Park Campground (Concordia) · public land · KS
- 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 6.6% — gentle. 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 ~1.7 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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 Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Rocky Pond (Belleville)~19.6 mi
How we know this — Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
Source
municipal park records
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
Camping rules: City of Concordia official site, https://concordiaks.org/departments/parks___recreation/parks/camping_-_airport_park.php , fetched 2026-07-20, quotes: 'a fee-by-donation campsite for a stay up to 7 days', '10 drive-through pads and 4 back-in pads with water and electric hookups', 'A dump station is onsite.', and long-term spots at '$150 per week'. Coordinates: OSM node 8534310245, tourism=caravan_site, capacity=14, power_supply=yes, sanitary_dump_station=yes -- capacity 14 matches the city's 10+4 pads exactly, which is what ties this OSM node to Airport Park. Corroborated by Nominatim, which places 'Airport Park, Concordia' 0.19 mi away. Logged fee=0 because no mandatory charge is levied, but confidence held at 'med' because donation-expected is not the same as free. Verified 2026-07-20.
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 Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
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 — Airport Park Campground (Concordia)
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →All field notes →