Agency-listedMunicipalFree
Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)
Drive-up · public land · NE · 42.35708, -97.60023
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Osmond is a town of about 700 in northeast Nebraska, one block off Highway 20, and its city park has five camping sites with 30- and 50-amp electric and water hookups, plus a dump station near the sites. The city's own recreation page asks for a suggested donation of $10 a night -- suggested, not required, which is why we list it as free, but the honest thing is to pay it if you can. Three of the pads are about 46 by 9 feet and two are about 50 by 9. The camping is at the park by the municipal pool, and the park also has picnic shelters, tennis courts and a playground. Honest caveats: the city page does not state a stay limit, so do not assume you can settle in -- ask at city hall if you want more than a night or two. Listings mention restrooms and showers; we could not confirm those on the city's own page. The deal these towns offer is simple: camp free, and they hope you buy fuel, groceries or dinner in town. Be a good guest and it stays free for the next traveler. Town rules change often and we have not visited -- confirm current rules with the town before you go.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,648 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)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 Osmond City Park (Poolside Park) · public land · NE
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- GGrocery9 mi
- MMechanic10 mi
- +Urgent care11 mi
- HHardware17 mi
- WWater24 mi
- RxPharmacy24 mi
- EVEV fast charger24 mi
- LLaundry31 mi
- DDump35 mi
- ShShower36 mi
- AAir-up38 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 24-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 — Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
1,648 ft
Ground slope
0.8% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.1 mi · other track
State
NE
Coordinates
42.35708, -97.60023
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Osmond City Park (Poolside Park) · public land · NE (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureNorth Fork Elkhorn River · ~0.1 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townOsmond · ~0.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.1 mi · other track
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelJerry's Hilltop Services · ~8.9 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesStore · ~9.8 mi
- Hospital / clinicOsmond General Hospital · ~0.3 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~16.8 mi
EV charging — from Osmond City Park (Poolside Park) · public land · NE — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger24.3 mi straight-line S — Norfolk, NE - Tesla Supercharger (at a grocery store) · Tesla · CCS, NACS (Tesla) · 8 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-06-18 · hours: 24 hours daily. Open to all vehicles. · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach4 within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 38 within 100 · 117 within 150
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO24.5 mi — NPPD EV STATION NORFOLK HYVE DC, Norfolk
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)24.1 mi — CITY OF NORFOLK LIBRARY · 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 333469 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Osmond City Park (Poolside Park) · public land · NE — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Osmond City Park (Poolside Park) · public land · NE
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps North Fork Elkhorn 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 0.8% — 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 ~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.
- 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.
Open Osmond City Park (Poolside Park) elsewhere
Other camps near Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Chilvers Park (Plainview)~9.7 mi
- Willow Creek SRA~12.6 mi · fee
- Sioux Strip WMA~15.4 mi
- Yellowbanks WMA~21.9 mi
How we know this — Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)
Stay limit
None published
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
Coordinates: OSM way 737699358 'Osmond City Park', leisure=park; pin verified INSIDE the way by point-in-polygon test against node geometry from api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/737699358/full.json, 2026-07-20. Camping rules: City of Osmond OFFICIAL page https://cityofosmondne.org/recreation/ , fetched 2026-07-20, which lists '5 sites', '30 & 50 amp hookup', 'Water hookup', 'Dump station near sites' and a 'Suggested donation of $10/night'. SUGGESTED donation, not a mandatory fee -> fee=0, but the note says so plainly. The city page states no stay limit. Not visited. 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 Osmond City Park (Poolside 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 — Osmond City Park (Poolside Park)
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →All field notes →