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Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg)
Drive-up · City of Gettysburg · SD · 45.00721, -99.95795
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FREE overnight camping (donation requested) at the Gettysburg City Park on the south side of town, next to the ball field and community pool, in the Potter County seat. There are three grassy spaces, each with a 30-amp electric hookup and a picnic table; a threaded water pump sits near the entrance, and there's a restroom and a dump station. No fee is charged and the stay limit is about 3 days -- but there's a secure donation tube by the bathroom, and the whole reason this little spot stays open is travelers dropping a few dollars to keep it running, so please leave a donation. It's the classic small-town deal: camp free, then gas up, grab groceries and eat local while you're in Gettysburg. This is confirmed across several reputable camping listings rather than an official city page, and we have not visited, so confirm the current rules with the City of Gettysburg before you go, be self-contained, and be a courteous guest so this stop stays open to travelers.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,056 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg)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 Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg) · City of Gettysburg · SD
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- HHardware0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- MMechanic1 mi
- OOutfitter42 mi
- +Urgent care44 mi
- EVEV fast charger45 mi
- DDump45 mi
- RxPharmacy55 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 0 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 45-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, 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 — Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg)
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Gettysburg
Elevation
2,056 ft
Ground slope
0.5% · flat
State
SD
Coordinates
45.00721, -99.95795
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg) · City of Gettysburg · SD (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelClark · ~0.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesGAS N GOODIES · ~0.4 mi
- HardwareTrue Value · ~0.3 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
EV charging — from Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg) · City of Gettysburg · SD — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger45.0 mi straight-line S — 1 Stop Travel Plaza, Pierre, SD (at a truck stop) · Non-Networked · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-11 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 4 within 50 · 11 within 100 · 36 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)86.0 mi — Murdo, SD - Tesla Supercharger, Murdo
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO48.3 mi — WEGNER AUTO CO. DC 1, Pierre
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)48.3 mi — WEGNER AUTO CO. WEGNER AUTO 1, Pierre, SD · ChargePoint Network · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Governors Inn - Tesla Destination, Pierre, 48.2 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- Pricing at the fast charger$0.39 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 367603 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg) · City of Gettysburg · SD — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg) · City of Gettysburg · SD
- 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 0.5% — 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.
Open Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg) elsewhere
How we know this — Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg)
Stay limit
3 nights (3 day limit)
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: reputable community listings all read 2026-07-27 -- Campendium (maps.campendium.com/us/gettysburg-sd/nature/gettysburg-city-park-gettysburg-sd), The Dyrt, allstays, AdventureGenie -- agree the City of Gettysburg's park on the south edge of town (next to the baseball field & community pool) offers FREE overnight camping with a donation requested (secure donation tube by the bathroom -- 'leave a donation to keep this little gem operating'; donations accepted, not solicited). 3 grassy spaces, each 30-amp + picnic table; threaded water pump near the entrance, restroom, dump station; max stay 3 days. MED -- multiple reputable community listings agree; no City-of-Gettysburg .gov camping page was located. Coordinate = OSM city-park polygon way/1078595849 centroid 45.007212,-99.957952 (Overpass around the Campendium pin 45.008,-99.959 -- the south-side park matching the ballfield/pool description; the OTHER Gettysburg park way/1078595407 ~0.7 mi NE is NOT the camping one). In Gettysburg, Potter County (county seat), SD. fee=0, dispersed=0, camp_type NULL, status pending. Ingest 2026-07-27.
--- NIGHTSHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-21 (fire 1220, leftover backlog) --- HOLDS UP. Re-read the Campendium listing for Gettysburg City Park this fire. Still 'Last Nightly Rate $0' (reported 7/30/25), still the donation wording 'Please leave a donation to keep this little gem operating. There is a secure tube by the bathroom.', still a '3 day limit', still a threaded water pump near the entrance, restroom and dump station. ONE DETAIL TO CORRECT ON THE PAGE: the ingest recorded 'three grassy spaces, each 30-amp'; the listing now says '15, 20 & 50 amp service'. Do not print '30-amp' -- say electric hookups are reported and leave the amperage unspecified, or cite the listing's current range. OSM way 1078595849 still live (v1) at this coordinate, though note it carries only leisure=park with NO name, so the identification of WHICH Gettysburg park this is still rests on the ingest's ballfield/pool reasoning -- the other park ~0.7 mi NE is not the camping one. MEDIUM, no .gov page. 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 Gettysburg City Park (Gettysburg)
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