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Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
Drive-up · public land · NE · 40.87392, -98.00300
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Aurora's Streeter Park is the best free city-park campground we have verified in Nebraska, and it is a genuine one: the city's own parks page says camping is FREE, with free electrical hookups, free water and a free dump station. The limit is four nights per stay, first-come first-serve with no reservations. Roughly eighteen sites on level gravel pads with 30-amp electric, water and a picnic table, fitting rigs up to about 35 feet. There is a donation drop box under the shelter at the campground entrance -- the city asks, it does not require, and dropping a few dollars in is the decent thing to do. You are about four blocks from downtown Aurora and right next to the municipal pool, ball fields, playgrounds and paved walking trails, and only a few miles off Interstate 80, which makes this an unusually easy overnight off the interstate. Honest caveats: it sits in town, so expect daytime road noise from the adjacent street and freight-train horns nearby at night. 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.
Can I go now? — Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) · public land · NE
Open today Year-round per the agency record.
public land record: “Year-round” Read against the calendar on 2026-09-27; with JavaScript your browser re-checks it against today.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,761 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)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 Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) · public land · NE
▲ 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
- EVEV fast charger0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- MMechanic15 mi
- RxPharmacy18 mi
- LLaundry18 mi
- HHardware19 mi
- +Urgent care19 mi
- WWater30 mi
- OOutfitter35 mi
- DDump59 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 30-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 — Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
1,761 ft
Ground slope
1.1% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.8 mi · other track
Nearest highway
~3.6 mi · Interstate 80
State
NE
Coordinates
40.87392, -98.00300
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) · public land · NE (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureLincoln Creek · under 0.1 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelSinclair · ~0.2 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesPump & Pantry · ~0.2 mi
- PharmacyU-Save Pharmacy · ~18.3 mi
- Hospital / clinicSaint Francis Medical Plaza · ~19.2 mi
- HardwareAce Hardware · ~18.8 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.8 mi · other track
- Nearest highway~3.6 mi · Interstate 80
EV charging — from Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) · public land · NE — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger0.3 mi straight-line S — AURORANE DC FAST 1 · ChargePoint Network · 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 reach10 within 25 mi · 15 within 50 · 61 within 100 · 118 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)19.9 mi — Grand Island, NE - Tesla Supercharger, Grand Island
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)0.3 mi — AURORANE LEVEL 2 · 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 181632 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) · public land · NE — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- Highway rest areaGrand Island Rest Area Westbound · ~15.7 mi W
- Highway rest areaGrand Island Rest Area Eastbound · ~17.3 mi W
- Highway rest areaYork Rest Area Eastbound · ~19.2 mi E
- Highway rest areaYork Rest Area Westbound · ~23.6 mi E
Coming out here — Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) · public land · NE
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Lincoln Creek as an intermittent stream, under 0.1 mi from the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022). Mapped as intermittent — expect it dry for part of the year. Nobody has checked it for you. Filter or boil anything you drink.
- Ground slope around the pin: about 1.1% — 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 ~0.8 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.
- Interstate 80 is mapped ~3.6 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 Streeter Park Campground (Aurora) elsewhere
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If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Gadwall WMA~4.9 mi
- Pintail WMA~6.6 mi
- Deep Well WMA~11.4 mi
- Kirkpatrick Basin South WMA~15.2 mi
Who holds the land at Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Streeter Park, manager on record: City of Aurora (local government). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
Open season
Year-round
Stay limit
4 nights (Four nights per stay.)
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 1313029333 'Streeter Park Campground', tourism=caravan_site, inside the larger Streeter Park (OSM way 1313029623); pin verified INSIDE the way by point-in-polygon test against node geometry from api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/way/1313029333/full.json, 2026-07-20. Camping rules: City of Aurora OFFICIAL page https://aurorane.gov/departments/parks-and-recreation/streeter-park/ , fetched 2026-07-20, which states camping is free with donations requested, 'Four nights per stay', and 'FREE electrical hookups', 'FREE water' and a 'FREE waste water dumpsite', first-come first-serve. Not visited. Verified 2026-07-20.
Season
Read from the agency's own season / closure text in this record (data/conditions.py) and checked against the calendar. The words we read are printed under the verdict at the top of the page.
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 Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
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
- 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 — Streeter Park Campground (Aurora)
Water on public land →Dumping grey & black →Fire rules & restrictions →Dispersed camping tips →All field notes →