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Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)
Drive-up · City of Wabash · IN · 40.79253, -85.81872
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Operator: City of Wabash
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 655 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)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 Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash) · City of Wabash · IN
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- MMechanic0 mi
- AAir-up0 mi
- PPropane0 mi
- WWater0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- RxPharmacy1 mi
- LLaundry2 mi
- +Urgent care2 mi
- OOutfitter4 mi
- DDump9 mi
- HHardware13 mi
- EVEV fast charger14 mi
- ShShower44 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Wabash
Elevation
655 ft
Ground slope
3% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~0.2 mi · other track
State
IN
Coordinates
40.79253, -85.81872
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash) · City of Wabash · IN (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWabash River · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Drinking waterWater · ~0.3 mi
- FuelPhillips 66 · ~0.1 mi
- Propane / LPGJ.M. Reynolds Oil Company, Inc. · ~0.2 mi
- Dump station~9.1 mi
- GroceriesSpeedway · ~0.1 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~0.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicParkview FirstCare Walk-In Clinic · ~2.0 mi
- HardwareArnie's Ace Hardware · ~13.4 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.2 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
EV charging — from Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash) · City of Wabash · IN — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger14.4 mi straight-line N — Shepherds Chevrolet, North Manchester, IN · Blink Network · CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach3 within 25 mi · 27 within 50 · 206 within 100 · 782 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)26.4 mi — Kokomo, IN - Tesla Supercharger, Kokomo
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO25.0 mi — Kokomo, Kokomo
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.2 mi — Schlemmer Brothers Metalworks - Tesla Destination, Wabash, IN · Tesla Destination · J1772, NACS (Tesla) · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-08-27 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles.
- 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 347688 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash) · City of Wabash · IN — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash) · City of Wabash · IN
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Wabash 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 3% — gentle. 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 ~0.2 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~0.3 mi from the pin. 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.
- No interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin in the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). That file holds the divided, limited-access highways only — a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not be in 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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How we know this — Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)
Source
public land 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
NOT STATE OR FEDERAL LAND - this is a county / municipal campground. It is here because the Indiana DNR water-trail camping layer records it with fee = "No", and we currently publish nothing at all in northern Indiana. On the Wabash River water trail. Fee attribute and coordinate both come from the IDNR "Streamside Camping" layer, https://gisdata.in.gov/server/rest/services/Hosted/Streamside_Camping_RO/FeatureServer/0 (read 2026-08-14); the fee was NOT confirmed against the operator's own page this fire, so confirm before publishing it as free. Operator reference: 100 Berry St., Wabash, IN 46992 | auto:agency-trust 2026-08-18: state agency GIS record with a source URL and coordinates, confidence not low. Fee value is the agency's own, not field-checked. Not field-verified -- confirm access, road conditions and fire rules before you go.
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 Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)
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 — Hikers, Bikers, Paddlers Campground (City of Wabash)
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