Agency-listedCity of LamarFree
Lamar City Park
Drive-up · City of Lamar · MO · 37.48429, -94.28048
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FIRST NIGHT IS FREE, then $20/night (7-night max) -- a free-first-night tier, NOT a wholly free campground. RV / self-contained only, in the small RV area on the WEST side of Lamar City Park; NO tent camping is allowed at any Lamar city facility, and there is NO camping at Lamar City Lake. Three electric hookups (30/50-amp), a frost-free water hydrant and a central dump station; first-come, register by calling the number posted on the campground sign. Right in town -- the classic 'camp a night, shop local' setup (Lamar is Harry Truman's birthplace). Confirm the current policy with the City of Lamar before you go.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Lamar City Park
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 935 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lamar City 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 Lamar City Park · City of Lamar · MO
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- RxPharmacy1 mi
- MMechanic1 mi
- @Mail6 mi
- LLaundry21 mi
- HHardware24 mi
- +Urgent care24 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- OOutfitter29 mi
- ShShower31 mi
- WWater32 mi
- AAir-up45 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 32-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out.
Not within 60 mi: Dump, 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 — Lamar City Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Lamar
Elevation
935 ft
Ground slope
2% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~1.1 mi · US Hwy 71
State
MO
Coordinates
37.48429, -94.28048
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Lamar City Park · City of Lamar · MO (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Fork Spring River · ~0.3 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Lamar Lake (water) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLamar · ~0.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~1.1 mi · US Hwy 71
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelCasey's General Store · ~12.1 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesWalmart Supercenter · ~1.5 mi
- PharmacyMed Station · ~1.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicCox Barton County Hospital · ~1.9 mi
EV charging — from Lamar City Park · City of Lamar · MO — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.2 mi straight-line N — Bettels Farms, Nevada, MO · FCN · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 4 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 17 within 50 · 58 within 100 · 203 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)24.7 mi — Nevada, MO - Tesla Supercharger, Nevada
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)19.0 mi — LIBERTY EMPIRE ASBURY · 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 233395 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lamar City Park · City of Lamar · MO — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Lamar City Park · City of Lamar · MO
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Fork Spring River as a perennial river, ~0.3 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% — 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 ~0.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. 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.
- US Hwy 71 is mapped ~1.1 mi from the pin. Straight-line, from the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025) — the divided, limited-access highways, which is why a state expressway or a two-lane US route near this camp would not appear here.
- 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 Lamar City Park elsewhere
Other camps near Lamar City Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
Who holds the land at Lamar City Park
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Lamar City Park, manager on record: City of Lamar (local government). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Lamar City Park
Stay limit
7 nights (FIRST NIGHT IS FREE, then $20/night (7-night max) -- a free-first-night tier, NOT a wholly free campground)
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: City of Lamar official FAQ (cityoflamar.org/Faq.aspx?QID=102, read 2026-07-26) -- 'The first night you stay with us is free, each additional night is $20 up to a seven day maximum stay,' overnight camping in the RV Park only, NO tent camping at any city facility, 3 electric hookups + frost-free water hydrant + central dump station, no camping at Lamar City Lake. Coordinate: OSM way/376989765 (leisure=park), the ONLY park polygon in Lamar, ringed by 20 leisure=pitch ballfields = Lamar City Park; RV area is on its west side; centroid 37.484289,-94.280476. Ingest 2026-07-26.
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 Lamar City 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 — Lamar City Park
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Power off-grid →All field notes →