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Fremont County
Drive-up · public land · Fremont County, WY · 42.82046, -108.73897
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This is the municipal park within the city of Lander, Wyoming. Not a lot of towns offer free camping in their municipal park! Three day limit. Good cell service. Enough room for multiple vehicle. No fires. Gravel area next to stream. There is a decent amount of traffic here, and a lot of boondockers. Might be busier during summer. Recommended due to convenience.
A night on record
Dave slept here on 19 October 2018. No agency publishes a season for this site, so that night is the only season evidence we have — what the site was then, not a forecast for this year.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Fremont County
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 5,419 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Fremont CountyNIFC · 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 Fremont County · public land · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- HHardware1 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- EVEV fast charger1 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- WWater38 mi
- +Urgent care56 mi
- MMechanic57 mi
- OOutfitter57 mi
- DDump58 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 38-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 — Fremont County
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land · dispersed
Elevation
5,419 ft
Ground slope
10.9% · noticeable
County
Fremont County, WY
Coordinates
42.82046, -108.73897
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Fremont County · public land · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMiddle Popo Agie River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Popo Agie Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLander · ~1.0 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~1.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesMr. D's Food Center · ~1.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicSageWest Health Care – Lander · ~0.6 mi
- HardwareNAPA Auto Parts - Wyoming Parts Inc · ~0.9 mi
From the field — what Dave saw, in person
Cell service
Had a signal
Getting there
Any vehicle managed it
Fire ring
No
Toilet on site
No
Tent friendly
Yes
Verdict
Recommended
EV charging — from Fremont County · public land · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.4 mi straight-line N — Fremont County Pioneer Museum, Lander, WY · 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 reach2 within 25 mi · 2 within 50 · 9 within 100 · 26 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)89.7 mi — Rock Springs, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Rock Springs
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO111.5 mi — BATTERY PARK 2, Afton
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.9 mi — WOC STATION STATION 4771, Lander, WY · 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 302441 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Fremont County · public land · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSinks Canyon · ~7.6 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHugh Otte · ~8.3 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBruces · ~8.6 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMiddle Fork · ~8.7 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Fremont County · public land · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Middle Popo Agie River as a perennial river, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as perennial is not the same as flowing today. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 10.9% — noticeable. 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.
- Assume no services at all. Most dispersed camping in a national forest has none: no tap, no power, no dump, often no toilet. Everything you need, you bring.
- 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 Fremont County elsewhere
Other camps near Fremont County
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Lander City Park (Lander)~0.1 mi
- Sinks Canyon WHMA — Sawmil Campground~5.3 mi
- Sinks Canyon WHMA — Popo Agie Campground~6.9 mi
- Sinks Canyon~7.5 mi
Who holds the land at Fremont County
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Town of Lander Park, manager on record: a city. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Townsend Creek at 8,720 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 3,301 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Fremont County
Source
Dave's own travels
Confidence
Researched — The record is detailed and internally consistent, and the coordinates land where the managing agency says this site is.
How it was placed
FIELD VERIFIED by Dave Lalande -- he has stood on this site. Coordinates are his own GPX track point, not a geocode. County and state confirmed against the FCC Census Block API (Fremont County, WY). Everything under 'From the field' is a direct observation; nothing here is inferred from a land record.
A night on record
Dave's own GPS diary, 2017–2020: the date of the waypoint he saved here. The timestamp is UTC, so an entry saved in the evening carries the next morning's date. An observation of one night, never a forecast.
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
Verified on the ground. Dave has stood on this one. He camped here on 19 October 2018. Conditions still change — confirm before you commit.
What we don’t know about Fremont County
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.
- How many rigs actually fit
- 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 — Fremont County
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →