Agency-listedTown of OdessaFree
Odessa Tourist Park
Drive-up · Town of Odessa · WA · 47.33315, -118.68769
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Free, and genuinely the small-town deal -- but read the hookup caveat FIRST: the Odessa Chamber describes 'water and electricity hook-ups' at the Tourist Park, while travellers consistently report the tap and the outlets are picnic-grade and sit roughly 50 feet from the sites, too far to actually plug a rig into, and that power and water can be shut off in early spring. Treat this as a dry, self-contained stop with a handy tap, not a serviced campground. With that said: the Town of Odessa lets you camp here THREE NIGHTS AT NO CHARGE, tent or RV, first come first served, with restrooms available and rigs up to about 40 feet reported to fit. It is a small mowed-grass park right in the middle of town at E 1st Ave and S 2nd St -- one block south of Reiman Park, the town's day-use city park -- so you can walk to the cafe, the grocery and the tavern, which is exactly the point: Odessa is a German-heritage wheat town of about a thousand people out in the channeled scablands on SR-28, and it offers the park free hoping you will spend a little downtown. Do that. Two things to know: the park is NOT on Google Maps and is easy to drive past -- aim for the 1st Ave and 2nd St corner and look a block south of the city park -- and it fills with RVs for a week around Deutschesfest, the third full weekend of September, when the overflow camping at the school's Finney Field is a paid, separate thing ($10-$40) and is NOT this park. Confidence is MEDIUM: the 'no charge' wording comes from the Chamber of Commerce's official lodging page (which also names the Town as the owner) and is backed by the fest's own FAQ and by current traveller reports, but the town's own website never prints the price, and because the park is unmapped our pin is accurate only to about half a block. Confirm the current rules with the Town of Odessa (509-982-2401) before you go, and leave it better than you found it.
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Weather outlook — at Odessa Tourist Park
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Everything you need — measured from Odessa Tourist Park · Town of Odessa · WA
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- RxPharmacy0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- WWater13 mi
- DDump19 mi
- MMechanic20 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- HHardware20 mi
- EVEV fast charger21 mi
- OOutfitter31 mi
- LLaundry34 mi
- ShShower36 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, 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 — Odessa Tourist Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
Town of Odessa
Elevation
1,553 ft
Ground slope
3.5% · gentle
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · other track
State
WA
Coordinates
47.33315, -118.68769
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Odessa Tourist Park · Town of Odessa · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureCrab Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townOdessa · ~0.1 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelCenex · ~0.3 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~18.6 mi
- GroceriesDenny's Family Foods · ~0.3 mi
- PharmacyOdessa Drug · ~0.2 mi
- Hospital / clinicHometown Family Medicine · ~20.2 mi
- HardwareRitzville Ace Hardware · ~20.4 mi
EV charging — from Odessa Tourist Park · Town of Odessa · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger21.2 mi straight-line SE — Ritzville, WA - Tesla Supercharger (at a hotel) · Tesla · NACS (Tesla) · 4 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 reach6 within 25 mi · 13 within 50 · 122 within 100 · 178 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS21.2 mi — Punjabi Dhaba Indian Food Market Place (Ritzville, WA), Ritzville
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO31.3 mi — Moses Lake DCFC, Moses Lake
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)21.4 mi — LES SCHWAB HANDICAP, Ritzville, WA · 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 102491 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Odessa Tourist Park · Town of Odessa · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomPublic Toilet · ~6.0 mi N · BLM
- RestroomPublic Toilet · ~13.1 mi NE · BLM
- RestroomPublic Toilet · ~16.1 mi NE · BLM
- Highway rest areaSchrag WB · ~18.5 mi SW
Coming out here — Odessa Tourist Park · Town of Odessa · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Crab Creek as a perennial stream, under 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 3.5% — 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 ~0.1 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as other track. The nearest track the atlas classes as a main line is ~0.2 mi from the pin. 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 — Odessa Tourist Park
Stay limit
3 nights (the paid fest option is a DIFFERENT site; Campendium/The Dyrt/campgroundviews/AllStays all carry $0 with a 3-night limit and 2026 reviews still report $0)
Longest rig
50 ft (CONFLICT RECORDED HONESTLY: the Chamber says 'water and electricity hook-ups'; traveller reviews say the tap/outlets are picnic-grade, ~50 ft from the sites and)
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 stated, with the town named as owner): ODESSA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE official lodging page, odessachamber.org/lodging (read 2026-07-28), verbatim -- 'The Odessa Tourist Park offers a three-night stay at no charge. With the site located in the middle of Odessa, a short walk will get you to your destination. Available for tent or RV. Water and electricity hook-ups only at first come, first serve. Restrooms are available. Camp site owned by Town of Odessa.' CORROBORATION: the Town of Odessa's OWN site (odessawa.org, read 2026-07-28) lists 'camping at the Tourist Park' among town amenities -- it confirms the park and the camping but NOT the price, which is why this is 'med' and not 'high'; the official Deutschesfest FAQ (deutschesfest.net/faqs) says 'For RV's, there is the tourist park just east of downtown' and 'All parking areas are first come; first serve, with no hookups,' and separately prices the SCHOOL DISTRICT's Finney Field fest camping at $40/$25/$10 -- i.e. the paid fest option is a DIFFERENT site; Campendium/The Dyrt/campgroundviews/AllStays all carry $0 with a 3-night limit and 2026 reviews still report $0. CONFLICT RECORDED HONESTLY: the Chamber says 'water and electricity hook-ups'; traveller reviews say the tap/outlets are picnic-grade, ~50 ft from the sites and not usable as RV hookups, and may be off in early spring -- the field_note leads with that. COORDINATE: the Tourist Park is NOT IN OSM (no camp object, no park polygon; reviewers note it is not on Google Maps either), so the pin is taken from the OSM STREET GRID at the address every source gives -- the intersection of E 1st Ave and S 2nd St. Overpass node-intersection query (ways named 1st Ave* AND 2nd St* in Odessa, nodes shared by both) returned TWO mapped nodes 53 m apart -- node/48822569 (47.333150,-118.687687, banked) and node/48822588 (47.333129,-118.686987) -- because OSM carries E 1st Avenue as several ways and TWO separate ways both named 'South 2nd Street' (way/5935532 and way/5935533, both verified individually via api.openstreetmap.org). PIN IS THEREFORE GOOD TO ~+/-55 m / half a block. Block cross-check: Reiman Park (Odessa's day-use city park, OSM way/242555289, true polygon centroid 47.334526,-118.687245) lies 0.095 mi almost due NORTH, matching reviewers' 'south of the city park by a block.' NEAR-NAME TRAPS IN THE SAME TOWN (both PAID, both rejected): Odessa Golf & RV Park (13080 SR-28, full hookups) and Lincoln Recreation and RV Park LLC. land_manager='Town of Odessa'; dispersed=0; camp_type NULL; water='yes' (tap on site, picnic-grade and seasonal). LEGAL: WA has NO statewide public-camping ban -- SB 5028 is still in Senate committee and is not law (LegiScan, read 2026-07-28). Odessa's municipal code could not be read (odessa.municipal.codes 403s both WebFetch and a browser-UA fetch), so no ordinance check was possible. Nearest existing WA lead 16.11 mi. Ingest 2026-07-28.
--- NIGHTSHIFT REVIEW 2026-08-21 (fire 1220, leftover backlog) --- HOLDS UP. Re-read odessachamber.org/lodging this fire; the entry is still verbatim as recorded, including the two sentences that matter most -- 'The Odessa Tourist Park offers a three-night stay at no charge.' and 'Camp site owned by Town of Odessa.' -- along with 'Available for tent or RV', 'Water and electricity hook-ups only at first come, first serve' and 'Restrooms are available.' The conflict recorded at ingest is unresolved and stays disclosed: the Chamber says hook-ups, travellers say the tap and outlets are picnic-grade, roughly 50 ft from the sites and seasonally shut off, and the field_note correctly leads with that. Still MEDIUM because the Town's own site confirms the park and the camping but never the price. The half-block pin caveat is unchanged and is already in the field_note -- the park is not in OSM and reportedly not on Google Maps, so the pin is the E 1st Ave / S 2nd St intersection, good to about +/-55 m, one block south of Reiman Park. Odessa's municipal code still could not be read. 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 Odessa Tourist 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 — Odessa Tourist Park
Water on public land →Fire rules & restrictions →Gear & rig loadout →Off-grid communication →All field notes →