Lander City Park (Lander)
This is the one the whole idea is built on. Lander sits at the foot of the Wind River Range on WY-789, and the city lets you camp right in City Park, four blocks off Main Street -- tents or an RV, first come first served, no reservation system, and the city's own website says plainly that it is free. Donations to the park are encouraged and you should leave one. The limit is 3 days within any 30-day period, so this is a genuine stopover, not a basecamp for a week in the Winds. Be realistic about the services: the city says they are limited to seasonal restrooms, meaning no hookups and no showers. The county tourism board lists roughly 7 trailer sites plus unlimited tent space, with picnic tables, drinking water and a lot of shade -- good shade is not nothing in July. One rule people get caught by: take your tent down by 9 AM in summer so the crews can mow and water. The park itself is open 6 AM to 11 PM. The deal these towns offer is simple: camp free, and they hope you buy fuel, groceries or dinner in town -- and Lander has a real main street to spend it on. Town rules change often and we have not visited; confirm current rules with the city before you go.
Everything you need — measured from Lander City Park (Lander) · public land · WY
- FFuel1 mi
- HHardware1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- EVEV fast charger1 mi
- LLaundry22 mi
- ShShower22 mi
- RxPharmacy23 mi
- WWater38 mi
- +Urgent care57 mi
- MMechanic57 mi
- OOutfitter57 mi
- DDump58 mi
The read: water is a real 38-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 1 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 — Lander City Park (Lander)
Nearby & resupply — around Lander City Park (Lander) · public land · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureMiddle Popo Agie River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Also mapped (OSM)Popo Agie Creek (stream) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townLander · ~0.8 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~0.8 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLoaf 'N Jug · ~0.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicSageWest Health Care – Lander · ~0.5 mi
- HardwareNAPA Auto Parts - Wyoming Parts Inc · ~0.8 mi
EV charging — from Lander City Park (Lander) · public land · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.4 mi straight-line N — Fremont County Pioneer Museum, Lander, WY · EV Connect · CCS · 2 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 · 2 within 50 · 9 within 100 · 26 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)89.9 mi — Rock Springs, WY - Tesla Supercharger, Rock Springs
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO111.6 mi — BATTERY PARK 2, Afton
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.8 mi — WOC STATION STATION 4771, Lander, WY · 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 302441 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lander City Park (Lander) · public land · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Vault / pit toiletSinks Canyon · ~7.8 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletHugh Otte · ~8.4 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBruces · ~8.8 mi SW · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletMiddle Fork · ~8.8 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Lander City Park (Lander) · public land · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Middle Popo Agie 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 2.4% — 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 Lander City Park (Lander) elsewhere
Other camps near Lander City Park (Lander)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Fremont County~0.1 mi
- Sinks Canyon WHMA — Sawmil Campground~5.4 mi
- Sinks Canyon WHMA — Popo Agie Campground~7.0 mi
- Sinks Canyon~7.6 mi
Who holds the land at Lander City Park (Lander)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Town of Lander Park, manager on record: a city. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Townsend Creek at 8,720 ft, about 12 miles away. It sits about 3,313 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Lander City Park (Lander)
What we don’t know about Lander City Park (Lander)
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