Agency-listedCity of PerrytonFree
Whigham Park
Drive-up · City of Perryton · TX · 36.39000, -100.80198
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FREE for up to 48 hours: Whigham Park in the center of Perryton (on Main Street) has 5 free RV spots with hookups -- but you MUST register first at the Perryton Police Department (21 SE 5th) before you camp. First-come. It's a tidy in-town park in Ochiltree County near the top of the Panhandle on US-83, a handy overnight that brings travelers into town to eat and fuel up. It's a short two-night max, so plan your stop. Confirm the current rules and the registration step with the City of Perryton before you go, and be a good guest so the free stay stays open.
USGS topo — contours & terrain
Aerial — USGS / NAIP
Weather outlook — at Whigham Park
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Live NWS area forecast (~2.5 km grid, not elevation-corrected). Camp sits at 2,927 ft.
Fire & smoke — around Whigham ParkNIFC · 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 Whigham Park · City of Perryton · TX
▲ your camp. Rings are 15, 30 and 60 straight-line miles; bearings are approximate and roads run longer.
Nearest of each
- GGrocery0 mi
- MMechanic0 mi
- LLaundry0 mi
- FFuel0 mi
- @Mail1 mi
- RxPharmacy1 mi
- HHardware25 mi
- ShShower33 mi
- EVEV fast charger40 mi
- +Urgent care43 mi
- AAir-up53 mi
- WWater59 mi
≤30 mi30–4545+water
The read: water is a real 59-mi drive, fuel & food sit about 0 mi out, the nearest EV fast charger is a 40-mi run (and back).
Not within 60 mi: 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 — Whigham Park
Access
Drive-up
Land
City of Perryton
Elevation
2,927 ft
Ground slope
1.1% · flat
State
TX
Coordinates
36.39000, -100.80198
Cost
Free
Nearby & resupply — around Whigham Park · City of Perryton · TX (OpenStreetMap)
- Water featureWater · mapped within 1.6 mi
- USGS NHDno named surface water within 1 mi
- Nearest townPerryton · ~0.2 mi
- Rail & highwaynone mapped within 10 mi
- Drinking waternone within 10 mi
- FuelBooker Fuel · ~15.0 mi
- Propane / LPGnone within 31 mi
- GroceriesLowe's Market · ~0.1 mi
- Hospital / clinicOchiltree General Hospital · ~1.4 mi
EV charging — from Whigham Park · City of Perryton · TX — nearest public DC fast & Level 2 (US DOE station data)
- Nearest public DC fast charger39.5 mi straight-line NW — TCEC Coop, Hooker, OK · FCN · CHAdeMO, J1772, CCS · 2 fast ports listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-09-16 · hours: 24 hours daily · directions
- Public DC fast stations within reachnone within 25 mi · 1 within 50 · 11 within 100 · 29 within 150
- Nearest listing NACS (Tesla)84.6 mi — MCFADDEN MCFADDEN 1, Bloom
- Nearest public Level 2 (J1772)1.4 mi — Museum of the Plains, Perryton, TX (at a museum) · Non-Networked · J1772 · 1 Level 2 port listed · listed open, last confirmed by AFDC 2026-07-15 · 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 156453 · US DOE Alternative Fuels Data Center
Nearby restrooms — around Whigham Park · City of Perryton · TX — pit toilets, restrooms & rest areas (government data)
- No mapped restroom within 30 miles — plan to pack it out.
Coming out here — Whigham Park · City of Perryton · TX
- Surface water mapped nearby: Water. That is wash water at best, and nobody has checked it for you — a creek can be dry and a tank can be mud. Filter or boil anything you drink. USGS maps no named surface water within 1 mi of the pin (National Hydrography Dataset, data refreshed October 2022).
- 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.
- 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 Whigham Park elsewhere
Who holds the land at Whigham Park
USGS’s Protected Areas Database (PAD-US 4.1, queried 2026-09-23) lists the ground at this pin as Whigham Park, manager on record: City of Perryton (local government). That names who holds the land — it is not a statement that camping is permitted here.
How we know this — Whigham Park
Stay limit
2 nights (The camping spots have free RV hookups with a maximum stay of 48 hours.)
Permit
Registration for camping can be completed at the Perryton Police Department, 21 SE 5th.
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
Source: City of Perryton parks page cityofperryton.com/parks-and-recreation, process corroborated by RVParky + listings (read 2026-07-27): 5 FREE RV spots with hookups, max 48 hours, REGISTER at the Perryton Police Department (21 SE 5th) before camping; Whigham Park is in the center of town on Main St. FREE (48h) -> fee=0, note leads with the register-at-PD step. Coord: Nominatim 'Whigham Park, Perryton TX' 36.390003,-100.801981 (leisure/park). Ingest 2026-07-27.
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 Whigham 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
Before you go — Whigham Park
Finding water out here →Dumping grey & black →Hot-weather camping →How to read this page →All field notes →