Rosalia City Park
Read the terms FIRST, because this one has three: it is TENT ONLY, it is a TWO-NIGHT MAXIMUM, and it is BY RESERVATION -- you must call Rosalia City Hall at 509-523-5991 before you turn up. And although the town says the fee is 'donation only,' that is not the same as nothing: pay the donation, and be generous about it, because that is what keeps spots like this open. With those understood, this is the real thing -- the Town of Rosalia says plainly on its own website that tent camping is allowed in Rosalia City Park, a green town park with a covered picnic area, a kids' play area and a small kitchen that can be rented for gatherings. Rosalia is a Palouse wheat town of about 600 on US-195 roughly 30 miles south of Spokane, and it sits right on the Palouse to Cascades State Park Trail, which makes this a genuinely useful overnight for cyclists and hikers crossing the state -- the trail runs a long dry stretch through here, so a legal, welcoming patch of grass in town matters. Do not confuse this with the town's OTHER camping: Rosalia also runs a paid RV park with power a couple of hundred yards north, which does charge and does not take tents. The city park is the tent-and-donation one. If you are in a rig, ask city hall which one they mean when you call. Confidence is HIGH -- this comes from the Town of Rosalia's own website, the operator itself -- but small-town rules change and this one needs a phone call anyway, so confirm the current rules with the town before you go, camp quietly, spend a little in Rosalia while you are there, and leave no trace.
Everything you need — measured from Rosalia City Park · Town of Rosalia · WA
- DDump0 mi
- GGrocery0 mi
- MMechanic0 mi
- EVEV fast charger0 mi
- WWater3 mi
- @Mail9 mi
- FFuel9 mi
- HHardware14 mi
- RxPharmacy14 mi
- LLaundry20 mi
- +Urgent care20 mi
- PPropane27 mi
- OOutfitter27 mi
- ShShower31 mi
The read: water is basically at camp, fuel & food sit about 0 mi out.
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 — Rosalia City Park
Nearby & resupply — around Rosalia City Park · Town of Rosalia · WA (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featurePine Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: perennial stream
- Nearest townRosalia · ~0.4 mi
- Nearest rail lineunder 0.1 mi · main line
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waterDrinking water · ~3.4 mi
- FuelFuel · ~9.4 mi
- Propane / LPGAmeriGas · ~29.8 mi
- Dump station~0.2 mi · Town Of Rosalia
- GroceriesEmpire Foods · ~0.2 mi
- PharmacyTekoa Pharmacy · ~14.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicCHAS · ~20.5 mi
- HardwareFairfield Hardware · ~14.2 mi
EV charging — from Rosalia City Park · Town of Rosalia · WA — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger0.3 mi straight-line N — Rosalia · EV Connect · CHAdeMO, CCS · 1 fast port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reach2 within 25 mi · 49 within 50 · 76 within 100 · 142 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)26.4 mi — Spokane, WA - Tesla Supercharger, Spokane
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.3 mi — Avista - Rosalia · FLO · 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 224168 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Rosalia City Park · Town of Rosalia · WA — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaHorn School · ~3.4 mi S
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~14.8 mi NW · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~14.9 mi NW · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~15.4 mi NW · FWS
Coming out here — Rosalia City Park · Town of Rosalia · WA
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Pine 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 1.3% — 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 under 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.
- 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 Rosalia City Park elsewhere
Other camps near Rosalia City Park
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Folsom Farm Recreation Site~23.5 mi
- Fishtrap Recreation Area~24.1 mi
Who holds the land at Rosalia City Park
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Rosalia City Park, manager on record: Town of Rosalia (local government). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Rosalia City Park
What we don’t know about Rosalia 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