Agency-listedMunicipalFree
Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
Drive-up · public land · WY · 41.21120, -106.79222
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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.
Encampment is a former copper-smelter town of a few hundred people on WY-70 in the Sierra Madre, and the town runs a 9-site RV park at W. Fourth and Winchell that it funds entirely by donation -- there is no posted nightly rate, just donation boxes on site. For a town this size the hookups are genuinely good: 8 of the 9 sites have electricity, 5 have potable water, 3 have a sewer drop, and there is an RV dump and a potable water hose. There is a restroom. There are no showers -- the town says so plainly. Tents are welcome too. It is first come, first served, with a 3-day limit the town says it enforces out of fairness to others, so do not try to settle in. Be straight about what 'free' means here: nobody will hand you a bill, but the park only exists because travelers put money in the box, so put something real in it. WY-70 over Battle Pass is a spectacular and very seasonal road -- it closes with snow, so check it before you route through here in shoulder season. The deal is the usual one: camp cheap, spend in town. Confirm current rules with the town at (307) 327-5501 before you go; we have not visited.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 7,278 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)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 Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment) · public land · WY
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- MMechanic0 mi
- @Mail0 mi
- FFuel1 mi
- GGrocery1 mi
- WWater11 mi
- OOutfitter17 mi
- DDump30 mi
- LLaundry30 mi
- ShShower30 mi
- +Urgent care42 mi
- EVEV fast charger46 mi
- HHardware49 mi
- RxPharmacy50 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water's a short hop out, fuel & food sit about 1 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 46-mi run (and back).
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 — Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
7,278 ft
Ground slope
3.3% · gentle
State
WY
Coordinates
41.21120, -106.79222
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment) · public land · WY (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureBadger Creek · ~0.2 mi · USGS: intermittent stream
- Also mapped (OSM)Encampment River (river) · mapped within 1.6 mi
- Nearest townEncampment · ~0.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelTrading Post · ~0.6 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- Dump station~29.5 mi
- GroceriesTrading Post · ~0.6 mi
EV charging — from Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment) · public land · WY — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger45.5 mi straight-line NW — Rawlins, 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 3 within 50 · 33 within 100 · 335 within 150
- Nearest listing CCS45.9 mi — Kroger-City Market 412 (Rawlins, WY), Rawlins
- Nearest listing CHAdeMO51.4 mi — MAVERIK SB SPRINGS PL1, Steamboat Springs
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)29.1 mi — Steamboat Lake State Park, Steamboat Springs, CO (at a public site) · RIVIAN_WAYPOINTS · J1772 · 2 Level 2 ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — Copperline Lodge, Saratoga, 17.0 mi · J1772 · hours: 24 hours daily; for guests only · AFDC lists it “Free; donations accepted”
- 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 102518 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment) · public land · WY — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomEncampment T/H South Toilet · ~2.0 mi S · BLM
- RestroomPurgatory Gulch · ~5.4 mi S · USFS
- Vault / pit toiletBottle Creek · ~6.2 mi SW · USFS
- RestroomBottle Creek · ~6.2 mi SW · USFS
Coming out here — Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment) · public land · WY
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Badger Creek as an intermittent stream, ~0.2 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 3.3% — 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.
- No rail line and no interstate or US route is mapped within 10 mi of the pin. Checked against the FRA/BTS North American Rail Network (data updated Jul 21, 2026) and the Census's TIGER/Line primary roads (TIGER/Line 2025, released Oct 2025). Both are national files and both are maps of what is built, not counts of what moves on 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 Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment) elsewhere
Other camps near Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
If this one is full, gated or washed out.
- Encampment River Canyon~3.6 mi
- Bottle Creek~6.2 mi · fee
- North Platte River-Treasure Island PAA — Designated Camping Area~8.9 mi
- Bennett Peak Campground~11.3 mi
Snow, and when this opens
The nearest automatic snow station is Webber Springs at 9,250 ft, about 8 miles away. It sits about 1,972 ft higher than this camp, so treat it as a guide rather than a reading for this spot. We do not repeat a depth here, because any number we stored would be stale by the time you read it — the station publishes today's.
How we know this — Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
Stay limit
3 nights (3 DAY LIMIT)
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
DONATION-FUNDED, NO POSTED RATE, per the TOWN'S OWN site, townofencampment.com 'RV Park' page, quoted verbatim: 'Use of the RV Park is on a first come first serve basis', 'THERE IS A 3 DAY LIMIT that is enforced out of fairness to others', 'There are a total of 9 camping sites in the RV Park', '5 sites have potable water', '3 sites have a sewer drop', '8 sites have electricity', 'There is also a rest room on site', 'The site also has an RV dump and potable water hose for convenience', 'Sorry there are no showers available', 'Tents are also welcome', and the funding model: 'This RV park is funded by the donations of those utilizing the services. Donations boxes are on site. Your donations help cover costs and provide for future site improvements.' Located at W. Fourth St. & Winchell Ave. State confirmed on the same page's footer: 'Town of Encampment | P.O. Box 5 - 614 McCaffrey | Encampment, WY 82325 | 307 327-5501' -- ZIP and 307 area code both check out (wrong-state trap, CO Lesson 4). NOTE ON RETRIEVAL: the site's TLS certificate is expired, so this was read over plain HTTP with a browser user-agent; the quoted strings were matched in the returned page text. This is a DONATION model, not a page that merely omits a price -- the town affirmatively states how the park is funded, so it is not a 'silence is not free' case (NE Lesson 1). Coordinates: OSM tourism=camp_site 'Town of Encampment RV Park' at 41.21120,-106.79222, 0.2 mi from the OSM Encampment place node. 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 Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
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 — Town of Encampment RV Park (Encampment)
Winter vs summer roads →Finding water out here →Cold-weather camping →Off-grid communication →All field notes →