Agency-listedMunicipalFree
Harrison City Park (Harrison)
Drive-up · public land · NE · 42.68922, -103.88505
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Harrison is the last town in Nebraska's northwest corner -- county seat of Sioux County, about 250 people, sitting high on the Pine Ridge at around 4,800 feet on Highway 20, and it is the natural base for the Agate Fossil Beds National Monument and the Pine Ridge country. The city park has three overnight parking spaces with electric hookups and water, restrooms nearby, on a free-will-donation basis with a donation box on site, and stays are limited to three days. Only three spaces means it can fill in summer, and it is first-come first-served, so have a backup. Honest caveats: this comes from the regional Discover Northwest Nebraska tourism site rather than from the town itself, which is small enough not to have a camping page, so confirm at the village office before you rely on it. This is genuinely high, exposed country -- nights are cold well into summer and the wind is real. 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 Harrison City Park (Harrison)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,870 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Harrison City Park (Harrison)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 Harrison City Park (Harrison) · public land · NE
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail0 mi
- WWater20 mi
- ShShower21 mi
- FFuel29 mi
- GGrocery29 mi
- MMechanic29 mi
- EVEV fast charger29 mi
- DDump44 mi
- +Urgent care45 mi
- HHardware45 mi
- LLaundry45 mi
- RxPharmacy46 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 29 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 — Harrison City Park (Harrison)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
4,870 ft
Ground slope
0.5% · flat
State
NE
Coordinates
42.68922, -103.88505
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Harrison City Park (Harrison) · public land · NE (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurenone named within 1 mi (USGS NHD)
- Nearest townHarrison · ~0.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesDecker's Market · ~29.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicNiobrara County Memorial Hospital · ~28.8 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
EV charging — from Harrison City Park (Harrison) · public land · NE — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger29.2 mi straight-line W — Lusk, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 10 within 100 · 49 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS45.1 mi — NPPD EV STATION CHDRN BGBTS DCS, Chadron
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO45.1 mi — NPPD EV STATION CHDRN BGBTS DCS, Chadron
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)45.1 mi — CCH 825 CCH 2, Chadron, NE · 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 102517 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Harrison City Park (Harrison) · public land · NE — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSoldier Creek · ~15.7 mi E · USFS
- Flush restroomHudson-Meng · ~17.4 mi NE · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletToadstool · ~19.2 mi NE · USFS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~19.8 mi SE · NPS
Coming out here — Harrison City Park (Harrison) · public land · NE
- 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 Harrison City Park (Harrison) elsewhere
Other camps near Harrison City Park (Harrison)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Gilbert-Baker WMA~5.6 mi
- Soldier Creek~15.7 mi · fee
- Peterson WMA~16.8 mi
- Toadstool~19.2 mi · fee
How we know this — Harrison City Park (Harrison)
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
Coordinates: OSM way 891355354 'Harrison City Park', leisure=park; pin verified INSIDE the way by point-in-polygon test against node geometry from api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/891355354/full.json, 2026-07-20. NOTE a near-name trap avoided: OSM also has an unrelated 'Harrison Park' (node 357756584) at 40.86,-97.60 in eastern NE and 'Harrison Heights/Hills Park' in the Omaha suburbs; this is the Sioux County one at 42.69,-103.89. Camping rules: Discover Northwest Nebraska regional tourism site https://discovernwnebraska.com/campgrounds/ , fetched 2026-07-20: '3 overnight parking spaces with electric hookup and water', 'free will donation. Donation box on site.', 'Stays up to 3 days.' This is a regional tourism source, NOT the town's own page (Harrison, pop. ~250, has no camping page we could find) -> confidence='med'. Not visited.
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 Harrison City Park (Harrison)
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 — Harrison City Park (Harrison)
Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →All field notes →