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Ives Landing Park
Drive-up · City of Pateros · WA · 48.05579, -119.89571
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Read this one carefully, because the free part is narrow: at Ives Landing Park the City of Pateros gives FREE TENT CAMPING, ONE NIGHT, TO 'PEDDLERS & PADDLERS' -- that is, to people arriving under their own power, on a bicycle or in a kayak, canoe or driftboat. If you roll in with a van or an RV, this is a PAID city campground and you owe the posted rate at the self-serve kiosk or at City Hall; do not treat it as a free overnight. For the cyclists and paddlers it is aimed at, it is one of the best small stops on the Columbia: a city park right on the water where the Methow meets the Columbia at Lake Pateros, with restrooms, a free hot shower room, a boat launch and a dump station, and the town's small business district within an easy walk. The rest of the park is RV and tent sites with water and electric hookups, reservable in advance or paid at the kiosk. Note the near-name trap: Pateros' OTHER waterfront park, MEMORIAL PARK a quarter-mile up the shore, is the $15-a-night curbside RV parking -- it is not this, and it is not free. Because the city publishes the free offer but not its fine print (how many nights beyond the first, what counts as a paddler, what everyone else pays), call Pateros City Hall at 509-923-2571 before you count on it, and be ready to pay if the answer has changed. This is a town doing something genuinely kind for people travelling the hard way -- if you take the free night, spend money in Pateros, and leave the site better than you found it.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Ives Landing Park
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 791 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Ives Landing ParkNIFC · 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 Ives Landing Park · City of Pateros · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- ShShower0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- EVEV fast charger0 mi
- RxPharmacy6 mi
- HHardware6 mi
- OOutfitter6 mi
- LLaundry11 mi
- DDump14 mi
- +Urgent care16 mi
- WWater16 mi
- MMechanic24 mi
- AAir-up45 mi
- PPropane50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, 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 — Ives Landing Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Pateros
Elevation
791 ft
Ground slope
4.8% · gentle
Nearest rail line
under 0.1 mi · main line
State
WA
Coordinates
48.05579, -119.89571
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Ives Landing Park · City of Pateros · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureColumbia River · ~0.2 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townPateros · ~0.3 mi
- Nearest rail lineunder 0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~0.4 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~13.5 mi
- GroceriesPateros Super Store · ~0.4 mi
- PharmacyPharmacy · ~5.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicCVCH Chelan Medical, Dental, & Behavioral · ~15.5 mi
- HardwareHardware · ~5.9 mi
EV charging — from Ives Landing Park · City of Pateros · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger0.4 mi straight-line SW — WCEH City of Pateros · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 3 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 21 within 50 · 61 within 100 · 416 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)29.4 mi — Entiat, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Entiat
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.4 mi — WCEH City of Pateros · EVCS · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: not listed
- 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 333271 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Ives Landing Park · City of Pateros · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletBlack Canyon · ~5.9 mi W · USFS
- Highway rest areaBrewster Weigh Station · ~10.2 mi E
- Vault / pit toiletShoe · ~10.6 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletAntilon Lake · ~13.5 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Ives Landing Park · City of Pateros · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Columbia River as a perennial river, ~0.2 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 4.8% — 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 under 0.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a main line. 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.
Open Ives Landing Park elsewhere
Other camps near Ives Landing Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Antilon Lake~13.5 mi
- Poison Creek~13.9 mi
- Okanogan County~14.4 mi
- Mitchell Creek~14.9 mi · fee
How we know this — Ives Landing Park
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 (FREE TIER stated by the OPERATOR): City of Pateros' own site, pateros.com Ives Landing Park page (read 2026-07-28), verbatim: 'Free Tent Camping to "Peddlers & Paddlers"' and 'Tent camping sites - free one night to "paddlers & pedalers"'. The same park's other sites (tent and RV with water + electric, dump station, free hot shower room) are paid, booked via a self-serve kiosk at the park or City Hall 509-923-2571; the city's OTHER waterfront park, Memorial Park, is $15/night curbside RV parking. Banked fee=0 under Dave's FREE-TIER rule, with the restriction LEADING the field_note. CONFIDENCE 'med' NOT 'high': the city's page states the free tier but never prints the paid rate, the stay rules, or how the qualification is checked -- the OFFER is operator-confirmed, its EDGES are not. COORDINATE: OSM way/1458523500 'Ives Landing Park' (leisure=park), area-weighted polygon centroid from Overpass 'out geom' full geometry -> 48.055785,-119.895707, with 10 mapped tourism=camp_pitch nodes (13376297612-621) inside the same polygon at 48.0553-48.0563 confirming the pin is on the campsites, not the parking lot. TRAP LOGGED: relation/19961004 'Ives Landing Park Campground' covering this same park is tagged fee=yes (true of the majority product, false of the free tier), and PAID Memorial Park (way/260224003, 48.052543,-119.899584) is only 0.28 mi away -- INSIDE the 0.5 mi dedup radius -- so ingesting the paid sibling first would have silently blocked this lead. GUARDRAILS: camping expressly allowed by the city; no entry fee or pass to be in the park. land_manager='City of Pateros'; dispersed=0; camp_type NULL; water='potable at the park (city park with restrooms, showers and RV water hookups)'. Nearest existing WA lead 13+ mi. Ingest 2026-07-28.
--- NIGHTSHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-21 (fire 1220, leftover backlog) --- HOLDS UP, AND THE OPERATOR'S OWN PAGE IS STILL THE SOURCE -- BUT THE URL MOVED. The pateros.com URL recorded at ingest is dead; the live City of Pateros page for this park is https://pateros.com/business_detail_T2_R32.php (read this fire). Both free-tier sentences are still published by the city, verbatim: 'Free Tent Camping to "Peddlers & Paddlers"' in the amenities list, and 'Tent camping sites - free one night to "paddlers & pedalers"' in the park's rules block. Also still confirmed by the city: 'Free Hot Shower Room', 'Self-serve camping kiosk', 'Water & electric hookups - sewer dump station included in reservation', year-round boat launch, and the address 190 Lakeshore Drive, Pateros WA 98846, phone (509) 923-2571. The narrow-free-tier framing banked at ingest is exactly right and must keep leading the field_note: free is ONE NIGHT, TENT ONLY, for people arriving by bike or paddle; everyone else pays. The city still does not print the paid rate or the qualification test, so this correctly stays MEDIUM -- the offer is operator-confirmed, its edges are not. The near-name trap with paid Memorial Park 0.28 mi away is unchanged and still worth the field_note warning. 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 Ives Landing Park
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 — Ives Landing Park
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Reading the aerial →Camping with a dog →All field notes →