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Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
Drive-up · public land · WY · 42.04760, -104.95333
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Ask about this camp →The land manager lists this site. Someone from the agency inventoried it, so it is a real camp — not a spot we guessed at. What changes is conditions — roads, gates, closures, fire rules. Check those with the unit before you commit to the drive.
Wheatland is the Platte County seat on I-25 between Cheyenne and Casper, and the town lets you camp overnight at Lewis Park, in the 200 block of 8th Street, with no set fee -- everything, including the dump station, runs on donations. Three nights is the requested maximum and there are no reservations; you just turn up. Be clear on what is NOT here, because the camping apps get this wrong: several of them advertise free electric hookups at Lewis Park, and the Town of Wheatland's own page says plainly that there are no electrical or water hookups at the campground. Come self-contained. There IS a dump station, and like everything else it is donation-based, so put money in the box -- a town that asks for nothing is trusting you to keep it worth doing. This is a genuinely convenient I-25 overnight: you are a couple of blocks off the main drag in a real town with groceries, fuel and food. The deal these towns offer is simple: camp free, and they hope you spend a little locally. Town rules change often and we have not visited -- confirm with Town Hall at (307) 322-2962 before you count on it.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 4,757 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)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 Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland) · public land · WY
▲ 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
- @Mail1 mi
- HHardware1 mi
- EVEV fast charger2 mi
- DDump13 mi
- RxPharmacy19 mi
- LLaundry19 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- MMechanic19 mi
- WWater31 mi
- OOutfitter60 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 31-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 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 — Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
4,757 ft
Ground slope
1.6% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · main line
Nearest highway
~0.6 mi · Interstate 25
State
WY
Coordinates
42.04760, -104.95333
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland) · public land · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNumber 2 Canal · under 0.1 mi · USGS: canal or ditch, no flow class
- Nearest townWheatland · ~0.5 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highway~0.6 mi · Interstate 25
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelFuel · ~0.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~13.4 mi
- GroceriesSafeway · ~1.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicPlatte County Hospital · ~0.4 mi
- HardwareDo it Best · ~18.8 mi
EV charging — from Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland) · public land · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger1.8 mi straight-line N — Wheatland, WY - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach1 within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 24 within 100 · 145 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS59.7 mi — LARAMIE AUTO CENTER, LARAMIE
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO67.0 mi — NPPD EV STATION SB SINCLAIR DCN, Scottsbluff
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)59.7 mi — Laramie Range · Blink Network · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveNACS-only Level 2 — Heartland Inn & Suites - Tesla Destination, Wheatland, 1.8 mi · NACS (Tesla) · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to Teslas only. · AFDC lists it “Free”
- 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 102521 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland) · public land · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaI-25 MM 65 Turnout westbound · ~12.5 mi S
- Highway rest areaI-25 MM 65 Turnout eastbound · ~12.5 mi S
- Highway rest areaDwyer Junction Rest Area · ~13.3 mi N
- RestroomSkyline Campground Restroom 2 Building · ~19.0 mi NE · BoR
Coming out here — Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland) · public land · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Number 2 Canal as a canal or ditch (no flow class in the record), under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). The record carries no flow class for it. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.6% — 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 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.
- Interstate 25 is mapped ~0.6 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 Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland) elsewhere
Other camps near Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Cottonwood Draw WHMA Campground~12.5 mi
- Grayrocks Reservoir PAA Campground #4~13.2 mi
- Grayrocks Reservoir PAA Campground #7~13.7 mi
Who holds the land at Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Town of Wheatland - Lewis Park, manager on record: a city. That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
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
NO SET FEE / DONATION-BASED per the TOWN'S OWN site, townofwheatlandwy.org Departments > Parks, Lewis Park entry, quoted verbatim: 'Overnight camping-Town of Wheatland does NOT accept reservations for camping sites. There is no electrical or water hook-ups at the campground. Three night maximum stay is requested and there is no set fee for the sites. All services, including the dump station are donation-based.' State confirmed on the same page: 'Town Hall: 600 9th St, Wheatland, WY 82201', '(307) 322-2962'. AGGREGATOR CONTRADICTION WORTH RECORDING: Campendium, theDyrt and assorted YouTube listings claim Lewis Park has FREE ELECTRIC / 30-50 amp hookups. The town's own page says flatly there are NO electrical or water hookups. The aggregators are wrong; the town governs. Coordinates: OSM node/5835597415 'Lewis park campground' (tourism=camp_site) at 42.047597,-104.953327, which matches the town's stated location for Lewis Park in the 200 block of 8th Street. Verified 2026-07-20.
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 Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
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 — Lewis Park Campground (Wheatland)
Finding water out here →Cold-weather camping →Fire rules & restrictions →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →