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Forrest Park RV Sites
Drive-up · City of Lamesa · TX · 32.72280, -101.95690
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FREE for the first few days, then a small fee -- and donations requested: the City of Lamesa's Forrest Park (RV pads on the S Houston Avenue / S 10th Street side of the park) offers free RV camping for self-contained rigs, with 30/50-amp electric and water pedestals, first-come. Travelers report the free window is about 4 days, after which it's roughly $20/night, and donations are requested -- please leave one either way to help keep it open. Heads up: the RV parking area is noticeably unlevel and slopes toward the road, so bring leveling blocks even for one night. The park itself is nice -- an 18-hole disc-golf course, playground and trails. A relaxed free-tier stop in Dawson County; the town hopes you'll shop and eat local. Confirm the current free-days rule and any fee with the City of Lamesa (806-872-2124) before you rely on it, and be a considerate guest.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Forrest Park RV Sites
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,938 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Forrest Park RV SitesNIFC · 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 Forrest Park RV Sites · City of Lamesa · TX
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail1 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- HHardware1 mi
- MMechanic1 mi
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- RxPharmacy36 mi
- WWater40 mi
- LLaundry40 mi
- DDump40 mi
- ShShower40 mi
- +Urgent care40 mi
- OOutfitter41 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 40-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Forrest Park RV Sites
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Lamesa
Elevation
2,938 ft
Ground slope
2.7% · flat
State
TX
Coordinates
32.72280, -101.95690
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Forrest Park RV Sites · City of Lamesa · TX (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelAlon · ~0.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesYesway · ~0.8 mi
- HardwareDavis Furniture & Hardware · ~0.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Forrest Park RV Sites · City of Lamesa · TX — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger2.5 mi straight-line N — Mitch Hall Cadillac, Lamesa, TX · EV Connect · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 23 within 100 · 52 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)43.5 mi — Big Spring, TX - Tesla Supercharger, Big Spring
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO52.2 mi — Walmart 3645 (Midland, TX), Midland
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.7 mi — Premier Ford of Lamesa · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port 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 319831 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Forrest Park RV Sites · City of Lamesa · TX — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Forrest Park RV Sites · City of Lamesa · TX
- 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 2.7% — 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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Who holds the land at Forrest Park RV Sites
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Forrest Park, manager on record: City of Lamesa (local government). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Forrest Park RV Sites
Stay limit
12 nights (12 days in any 30 day period)
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: campgroundviews.com (attributes operator 'City of Lamesa', cites the city site ci.lamesa.tx.us + 806-872-2124) + rvparky + Campendium + The Dyrt + iOverlander (read 2026-07-27; no direct city .gov page fetched -> MED): a City of Lamesa public park offering 'free RV camping for self-contained units' with electric + water pedestals (30/50A), first-come; reviews report FREE for about 4 days, then ~$20/night, DONATIONS requested. Park also has an 18-hole disc-golf course, playground and trails; the RV parking area is UNLEVEL (slopes toward the road) so carry leveling blocks. FREE-TIER + DONATION -> fee=0, note leads with the ~4-free-days tier and the donation. Coord: 32.722800,-101.956900 (campgroundviews GPS at S Houston Ave & S 10th St), which falls INSIDE the real OSM park polygon way/751125750 'Forrest Park' (bbox 32.71823..32.72483 N, -101.95832..-101.94781 W) on its Houston-Ave (west) edge where the pads are. Ingest 2026-07-27.
== NIGHTSHIFT RE-VERIFIED 2026-08-20 (fire 1180, leftover backlog pass 6: TX/TN/MO/SC/VT) ==
HOLDS UP AND IS NOW OFFICIALLY SOURCED - UPGRADED FROM COMMUNITY LISTINGS TO THE CITY'S OWN PAGE. The row was previously sourced only to campgroundviews/rvparky/Campendium/The Dyrt/iOverlander. This fire I found and read the City of Lamesa's own page for the facility: https://www.ci.lamesa.tx.us/government/city_departments/parks_and_recreation/city_rv_parking_area.php (read 2026-08-20), reached from https://www.ci.lamesa.tx.us/government/city_departments/parks_and_recreation/index.php (read 2026-08-20). The city states, verbatim: "Free campground use is limited to 4 days. $20/day fee after 4 days."; "6 - 30 amp outlets"; "1- 50 amp outlet"; "Water and sewer dump stations"; "Eight back into sites"; "Park facilities are available on a first come first served basis. No reservations are taken." The same page prints the governing ordinance. Sec. 76.045: "One to four days No Charge / Every day in excess of four days $20 per day" and "The maximum length of stay in said campgrounds shall not be more than 10 consecutive days or not more than 12 days in any 30 day period; any requests for extensions on length of stay shall be made to the park superintendent and approved by the city manager." Sec. 76.043: "The campgrounds in city parks shall be open to and for public use at all hours of the day" - which is the clause that lets you stay overnight even though the general Parks page says "The parks are open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m." RESTRICTION A READER NEEDS, verbatim: "The campgrounds in the city parks shall be available exclusively for the use of tourists and other visitors to the city and shall not be available for commercial use or for use by any persons plying any vocation or business within the City or County". Also unlawful in a city park: possess intoxicating liquors, display a gun, drive or park on the grass; 20 mph limit. CORRECTIONS TO THIS ROW'S EARLIER TEXT: the city says EIGHT back-in sites (community listings said 5-6 or 12); the city lists 6x30A + 1x50A OUTLETS and a water/sewer DUMP STATION, and does NOT say every site has a water pedestal - do not promise per-site water; and the city page does NOT mention donations anywhere, so the "donations requested" line is community-sourced only and should not be presented as a city request. The free-for-about-4-days-then-about-$20 tier the community reported is now confirmed exactly by ordinance. DECISION: approved. Coordinate unchanged (32.7228, -101.9569, inside the OSM Forrest Park polygon way/751125750 on its S Houston Ave edge); the city page gives no coordinate, so the pin is still the community GPS and the unlevel-pad warning still stands.
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 Forrest Park RV Sites
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 — Forrest Park RV Sites
Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Hot-weather camping →Camping with a dog →All field notes →