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James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)
Drive-up · Bleckley County · GA · 32.41437, -83.48239
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This is FREE camping at a county river park -- and Bleckley County put it in writing, which is rare and worth trusting: the county's own 2022 camping ordinance says plainly that camping is permitted at James Dykes Memorial Park (a.k.a. Dykes Landing) on the Ocmulgee River, with no fee. Read the catches FIRST: it is a primitive boat-landing camp with NO drinking water, NO toilets, and NO dump station, so come fully self-contained and pack out everything (the ordinance actually requires RVers to keep their off-site dump receipts). There's room for tents and even big rigs (reviewers have fit ~50-footers), fire rings, and a pavilion, first come first served, right on the river SW of Cochran off Porter Road. The county caps stays at 7 days in any 31, so it's an overnight/short-stay stop, not a place to settle in -- and it can flood, so check the river before you commit to a low site. This is the honest small-town deal: camp free by the water, and spend a little in Cochran while you pass through. Confidence is HIGH (the county's own ordinance permits camping and sets no fee), but rules can change, so confirm the current rules with Bleckley County before you go and leave it better than you found it.
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Weather outlook — at James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 219 ft.
Fire & smoke — around James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)NIFC · AirNow
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Everything you need — measured from James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran) · Bleckley County · GA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel8 mi
- @Mail8 mi
- RxPharmacy8 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- HHardware9 mi
- EVEV fast charger9 mi
- +Urgent care12 mi
- MMechanic14 mi
- WWater19 mi
- DDump21 mi
- LLaundry32 mi
- AAir-up34 mi
- OOutfitter34 mi
- PPropane34 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 8 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 — James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)
Access
Drive-up
Land
Bleckley County
Elevation
219 ft
Ground slope
2.8% · flat
Nearest rail line
~1.7 mi · main line
State
GA
Coordinates
32.41437, -83.48239
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran) · Bleckley County · GA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureOcmulgee River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townPorter · ~4.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~1.7 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~7.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~27.7 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~8.6 mi
- PharmacyWalgreens · ~14.9 mi
- Hospital / clinicTaylor Regional Hospital · ~8.1 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~15.4 mi
EV charging — from James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran) · Bleckley County · GA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger9.1 mi straight-line S — GEORGIA POWER HAWKINS DC1, Hawkinsville, GA · ChargePoint Network · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach19 within 25 mi · 50 within 50 · 199 within 100 · 572 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO9.2 mi — GEORGIA POWER HAWKINS DC2, Hawkinsville
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)15.6 mi — Coldwater Creek Apartments, Warner Robins, GA · Blink 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 330771 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran) · Bleckley County · GA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaGDOT Rest Area 14 · ~20.9 mi SW
- Highway rest areaGDOT Rest Area 87 · ~26.2 mi E
- Highway rest areaGDOT Rest Area 88 · ~27.8 mi E
- Highway rest areaGDOT Rest Area 13 · ~28.7 mi SW
Coming out here — James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran) · Bleckley County · GA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Ocmulgee River as a perennial river, ~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 2.8% — 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.
- Rail line mapped ~1.7 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.
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How we know this — James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)
Stay limit
7 nights (7 days per 31-day period)
Source
municipal park records
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
Source (AUTHORITATIVE, FREE + camping affirmatively permitted): BLECKLEY COUNTY'S OWN 'James Dykes Memorial Park Camping Ordinance,' adopted by Sole Commissioner Mike Davis 2022-10-20 (bleckley.org/james-dykes-memorial-park-camping-ordinance + scanned ordinance PDF, read 2026-07-28). It recites 'camping is permitted at James Dykes Memorial Park in Bleckley County, also known as Dykes Landing,' sets overnight limits (7 days per 31-day period; max 21 days per rolling 12 months), requires RVs to carry current registration and to dump sewage OFF-SITE (retain receipts), and imposes NO camping fee -- the only dollar figures are escalating fines ($100/$500/$1,000) for VIOLATING the ordinance, not a nightly rate. Corroborated FREE by freecampsites.net id 110919 ('This is a FREE campsite,' GPS 32.414264,-83.482733, 1-5 sites, no water/toilets/dump, big-rig up to 50 ft), The Dyrt, AllStays, Bivy. Coordinate 32.414375,-83.482392 = OSM relation/20436919 'James Dykes Memorial Park' leisure=park center (via Overpass kumi.systems mirror, 2026-07-28); the freecampsites GPS agrees within ~0.03 mi. Bleckley County, on the Ocmulgee River SW of Cochran (off Porter Rd / ~1100 Centenary Rd). land_manager='Bleckley County'; a COUNTY park filed under source='city_park' as the standing mission's local-government free-town-park category (tag 'county-park'). dispersed=0 (a designated county camp area, though primitive), camp_type NULL, water='no' (river adjacent but NO potable water on-site). LEGAL: GA has no in-force statewide public-camping ban; the county has affirmatively ordained camping here. Nearest existing GA lead 55.09 mi. Ingest 2026-07-28.
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 James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)
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 — James Dykes Memorial Park - Dykes Landing (Cochran)
Finding water out here →Fire rules & restrictions →Leave no trace →Power off-grid →All field notes →