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Towner City Park (Towner)

Drive-up · public land · ND · 48.34112, -100.40678
We haven't personally camped here. Everything below is pulled from public land data, USGS maps and OpenStreetMap — a real place on public land, but not field-checked by us. Confirm road conditions, current access, stay limits and fire restrictions before you go.

Towner sits on US-2 in the Souris River valley, and its city park is a genuinely free stop on the Highline -- the Towner Community Club's own page lists the park as 'Free Camping' with tent room and four RV sites with electric, plus a picnic pavilion, tennis and basketball courts and a playground. Travellers consistently report a freewill donation box, and that a donation is asked for if you use the electric; treat it as donation-based rather than truly no-cost and put something in. Reports say there is no water at the sites themselves but there is a threaded faucet on the bathroom building at the northeast corner of the park -- that detail is from other campers, not the town, so arrive with water. No published night limit. Do not confuse Towner the city (McHenry County, on US-2) with Towner County, which is a different place 60 miles east. The deal these towns offer is simple: camp free, and they hope you buy fuel, groceries or dinner in town. Town rules change often and we have not visited -- confirm current rules with the town at (701) 537-5834 before you go.

USGS topo — contours & terrain
USGS topographic map of Towner City Park (Towner)
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Aerial image of Towner City Park (Towner)
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 1,484 ft.
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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

Services & drive-time data covers the public-lands states we've mapped so far — not this camp's region yet. Open in Google Maps ↗

The site

Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
1,484 ft
State
ND
Coordinates
48.34112, -100.40678
Cost
Free

Nearby & resupply (OpenStreetMap)

  • Water featureSouris River (river) · nearby
  • Nearest townTowner · ~0.3 mi
  • Drinking waternone within 10 mi
  • Fuelnone within 30 mi
  • Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
  • Dump stationnone within 31 mi
  • GroceriesLeevers Foods · ~19.0 mi
  • Hospital / clinicHeart of America Medical Center · ~19.5 mi

Nearby restrooms — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)

Open this spot elsewhere

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Other camps nearby

If this one is full, gated or washed out.

How we know this

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
FREE per the Towner Community Club's own site (townercc.com/places-to-stay), quoted verbatim from the downloaded page: 'Main Street and Sixth Ave. SW, Towner, ND Tent, 4 RV sites with electric, picnic pavilion, tennis court, basketball court, playground. Free Camping.' ndtourism.com also lists it; Campendium reports a freewill donation box and a donation requested for electric. Confidence 'med' not 'high': the community club is the town's own organisation but is not a .gov source, and the donation-box detail comes from a crowd source. Coordinates: OSM way/524536511 'Towner City Park'; Nominatim resolved the same object. NOTE: plain 'Towner, ND' geocodes to Towner COUNTY -- Towner CITY is in McHenry County. Verified 2026-07-20.
Field check
Not verified on the ground. Nobody from here has camped it. It stays at Likely until someone does.

What we don’t know

A land record can put you within a few metres of a spot. It cannot tell you any of this — so check it yourself, and treat anything below as the open question it is.

Before you go

Your first dispersed night →Fire rules & restrictions →Getting unstuck →Power off-grid →All field notes →
Been here? Tell us what changed. This page is built from public records, so the fastest way it gets better is somebody who has actually pulled in. Road washed out, site gone, gate locked, or it is exactly as described — all of it useful. Send a report →