Agency-listedCity of BrunoFree
Bruno City Park
Drive-up · City of Bruno · MN · 46.28061, -92.66394
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FREE small-town traveler park in Bruno, a tiny (pop ~85) city in Pine County in east-central Minnesota -- the town keeps a small park where road-trippers can pull off US-61 to park, rest, and camp, with a well for fresh water and restrooms. OpenStreetMap tags the campsite as no-fee, and the town's Wikipedia entry describes it as 'a small park for travelers to park and rest with restrooms and a well for fresh water.' It is a simple, unglamorous stop in the classic camp-free, shop-and-eat- local spirit -- if there is a donation box, drop something in it, and be a courteous guest so the town keeps welcoming travelers. NOTE this is a MEDIUM-confidence lead: Bruno is too small to have a city website, so the free status comes from OpenStreetMap plus Wikipedia rather than an official city page, and no source states an exact night limit -- please confirm the current rules (fee, nights, RV vs tent) with the City of Bruno or Pine County before you rely on it, be self-contained, and leave it better than you found it.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Bruno City Park
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at the elevation shown above.
Fire & smoke — around Bruno City ParkNIFC · 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 Bruno City Park · City of Bruno · MN
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail0 mi
- FFuel8 mi
- GGrocery8 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- WWater10 mi
- EVEV fast charger11 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- PPropane13 mi
- MMechanic13 mi
- LLaundry13 mi
- RxPharmacy15 mi
- ShShower23 mi
- OOutfitter31 mi
- DDump32 mi
- AAir-up60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — Bruno City Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Bruno
Ground slope
1.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~7.5 mi · Interstate 35
State
MN
Coordinates
46.28061, -92.66394
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Bruno City Park · City of Bruno · MN (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waterWater · ~9.6 mi
- FuelDuquette General Store · ~8.0 mi
- Propane / LPGCenex · ~12.8 mi
- GroceriesDave's Oil C-Store · ~8.3 mi
- PharmacyThrifty White Pharmacy · ~15.4 mi
- Hospital / clinicGateway Family Health Clinic · ~12.4 mi
- HardwareWillow River Lumber & Hardware · ~8.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~7.5 mi · Interstate 35
EV charging — from Bruno City Park · City of Bruno · MN — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger11.4 mi straight-line N — Kwik Trip #166, Moose Lake, MN (at a convenience store) · KWIK_CHARGE · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, no confirmation date on the record · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach5 within 25 mi · 14 within 50 · 137 within 100 · 226 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO12.8 mi — MOOSE LAKE LEVEL 3, Moose Lake
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)12.8 mi — MOOSE LAKE LEVEL 2 · 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 charger$0.52 per kWh (as listed by AFDC)
- 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 463493 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Bruno City Park · City of Bruno · MN — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaGeneral Andrews · ~8.6 mi NW
- Highway rest areaKettle River · ~9.6 mi SW
- Highway rest areaCulkin · ~19.5 mi N
- RestroomMD Thayers Landing Vault Toilet · ~21.4 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Bruno City Park · City of Bruno · MN
- 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 1.1% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~0.1 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.
- Interstate 35 is mapped ~7.5 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 Bruno City Park elsewhere
Other camps near Bruno City Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Governor Knowles State Forest - Lost Creek Backpack Site (free, permit required)~22.8 mi
- St. Croix NSR - Clam River Group Campsite (free, first-come)~23.4 mi
- Governor Knowles State Forest - Clam River Backpack Site (free, permit required)~24.5 mi
- St. Croix NSR - Norway Point Landing Campsites (free, first-come)~24.7 mi
How we know this — Bruno City Park
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
Source: OSM node/7160201351 (api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/node/7160201351.json, read 2026-07-27) tagged tourism=camp_site, fee=no, drinking_water=yes, toilets=yes, picnic_table=yes, addr:city=Bruno, addr:state=MN; coordinate 46.280609,-92.663944 is the surveyed OSM node itself (not a bbox centroid). Corroborated by Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno,_Minnesota (read 2026-07-27): 'There is also a small park for travelers to park and rest with restrooms and a well for fresh water' -- matches the well (drinking_water) + restrooms (toilets) and the traveler-rest purpose. Bruno is an 85-person city (Pine County) with no findable municipal website, so there is no .gov page to confirm fee=0 outright; the free flag rests on the OSM fee=no tag + Wikipedia's traveler-rest description and no source anywhere states a price. MED confidence for that reason. fee=0, dispersed=0, camp_type NULL, water='yes' (well), status pending. Nearest existing MN lead is 74.17 mi (USFS). Ingest 2026-07-27.
--- NIGHTSHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-21 (fire 1220, leftover backlog) --- HOLDS UP. Both recorded sources re-read this fire and both still say what we recorded. OSM node 7160201351, fetched live from api.openstreetmap.org, is still present (v1) at exactly 46.280609,-92.663944 and still tagged tourism=camp_site, fee=no, drinking_water=yes, toilets=yes, addr:city=Bruno -- the surveyed node itself, not a bbox centroid. Wikipedia's Bruno, Minnesota article still says verbatim 'There is also a small park for travelers to park and rest with restrooms and a well for fresh water', and still gives the 2020 population as 85. The two agree on the well, the toilets and the traveler-rest purpose. As at ingest there is no municipal website and therefore no official '$0', so this stays MEDIUM. WATER CAUTION TO CARRY ONTO THE PAGE: the water here is a WELL, described as 'fresh water' by Wikipedia and drinking_water=yes by OSM -- but no agency states it is tested or potable, so the page should say a well is reported on site and stop there, not promise drinking water. APPROVED.
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 Bruno City Park
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 — Bruno City Park
Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →Camping with a dog →All field notes →