Agency-listedMunicipalFree
Towner City Park (Towner)
Drive-up · public land · ND · 48.34112, -100.40678
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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
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at 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.
Fire & smoke — around Towner City Park (Towner)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 Towner City Park (Towner) · public land · ND
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- @Mail0 mi
- FFuel19 mi
- GGrocery19 mi
- MMechanic41 mi
- EVEV fast charger41 mi
- AAir-up41 mi
- +Urgent care41 mi
- RxPharmacy42 mi
- HHardware42 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: fuel & food sit about 19 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 41-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: Water, Dump, 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 — Towner City Park (Towner)
Access
Drive-up
Land
public land
Elevation
1,484 ft
Ground slope
1.2% · flat
Nearest rail line
~0.4 mi · passing siding
State
ND
Coordinates
48.34112, -100.40678
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Towner City Park (Towner) · public land · ND (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureSouris River · ~0.8 mi · USGS: perennial river
- Nearest townTowner · ~0.3 mi
- Nearest rail line~0.4 mi · passing siding
- Nearest highwayno interstate or US route within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- Fuelnone within 30 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLeevers Foods · ~19.0 mi
- Hospital / clinicHeart of America Medical Center · ~19.5 mi
- Mapping is thin out hereAn empty row means nothing is mapped within that radius — not that nothing exists. Small stores, seasonal resorts and single fuel pumps out here often never make it onto the map. Treat these as unconfirmed and ask locally.
EV charging — from Towner City Park (Towner) · public land · ND — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger41.0 mi straight-line W — ENERBASE VEC, Minot, ND · 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 reachnone within 25 mi · 5 within 50 · 6 within 100 · 23 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)41.9 mi — Minot, ND - Tesla Supercharger, Minot
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)33.3 mi — North Central Electric Co-op, Bottineau, ND (at an utility) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2025-07-03 · hours: 24 hours daily
- Also listed, not counted aboveLevel 2, restricted access — MJ McGuire Ford, Rugby, 18.8 mi · J1772 · hours: Business hours · AFDC lists it “$20 per session; Maximum session time of 8hrs”
- 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 164078 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Towner City Park (Towner) · public land · ND — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~15.0 mi N · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~17.1 mi N · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~21.0 mi NW · FWS
- RestroomFederal restroom · ~24.1 mi NW · FWS
Coming out here — Towner City Park (Towner) · public land · ND
- Surface water mapped nearby: USGS maps Souris River as a perennial river, ~0.8 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 1.2% — 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 ~0.4 mi from the pin — the national rail atlas classes it as a passing siding. 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.
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How we know this — Towner City Park (Towner)
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.
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 Towner City Park (Towner)
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 — Towner City Park (Towner)
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Cold-weather camping →Power off-grid →All field notes →