SPEARFISH, SD
Downtown Walkable City Campground
At the Northern base of the Black Hills of Western South Dakota sits the city of Spearfish, SD. The city offers and manages a rad campground with large grass shared parking areas for boondock capable rigs within walking distance to downtown. A worthwhile stop on your way through Mt. Rushmore and the Black Hills of SD or while you’re getting your SD nomad residency.
⚫ STOP-OVER LOCATION : This a recommended safe stop-over for nomads on wheels meant to be a crash pad for a few nights. Not an official VLC location.
Recommended for 1-5 night stay. Want to learn more about our other locations and types?
ABOUT THE STOP:
Can get busy on the weekends during the summer but an absolutely worth it stop. A great offering by the city of Spearfish, SD. One side is a basic RV park (YUCK!) but the other side is a collection of large grass areas which act as shared parking areas for boondockable rigs and tent campers.
Spot is beautiful, green, with people hanging and kids playing. Quite at night with multiple streams running through the park and miles of city nature trails. Has all the amenities you could need including potable water fill-ups, hot showers, flush toilets and is walkable to museums, restaurants and bars of the very cute downtown Spearfish.
Note: This is a city campground not booked through VLC. Their booking system is confusing. Just make sure you book a tent/boondock camping spot for $25/night and you’ll get our recommended experience.
AMENITIES:
🍳 - Shared Kitchen
🚿 - Hot Shower & Toilets
💧 - Water Tank Fill-Ups
⚡️ - Power Available
📶 - Bad Wifi Available
💻 - Co-Work Space
🧺 - Laundry Nearby
💪 - Gym On-Site
📬 - Receive Packages
♻️ - Trash & Recycle
🔥 - Communal Firepit
ABOUT:
👪 - Family Friendly
🐕 - Pets Allowed (on leash)
📳 - Medium Cell Service
🕐 - Closed Winter
🚐 - Size Limit: 40 ft
🥗 - 5 Minutes To Groceries
⛺ - Ground Tents Allowed
⚙️ - No Generators
📆 - 14 Night Max
Pet Policy: Pets are allowed on-leash
Arriving: 2WD vehicles can easily access spots. Check-in starts at 2pm and checkout by 11am.
Recommended Season: The black hills sit at 3-7,000 ft elevation. We recommend this stop-over from June to September
LOCATION:
Note: VLC’s are by reservation only. Address, arrival instructions and maps will be provided after booking.
WE’RE MORE THAN JUST CAMPGROUNDS
(BOOK TO GET ACCESS TO THE FOLLOWING DIGITAL COMMUNITY PERKS)
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CHAT GROUPS
Get access to our growing community Discord channel. This is your best place to stay up to date with VLC, communicate with folks on-site and off, and see what’s going on throughout the entire network/community.
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CARAVANS
Get access to our growing list of reoccuring and spontaneous caravans moving between VLC locations, vanlife events/meetups and wherever the hell else we want to go. Can even work with us to create and advertise your own caravan to the VLC network.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
Join our community run calendar to add and check out all of the events that the VLC community are going to, interested in or have created (maybe find a caravan to one as well!). This is also a space to create and host digital meetups like game/movie nights or whatever else you can think of.
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EARLY ACCESS
You’ll be allowed to book new locations to help us gather feedback before they’re announced to the public. You’ll receive first notice of new paid gigs, workstays, investment opportunities, beta progams, etc. Whatever it is we want to try, test or launch this is where it goes first!
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DIRECT ACCESS
The VLC team along with the founder are in our digital community joining the conversation and learning what you love (or don’t so much love) about VLC’s. The best place for access to our team to share ideas, feedback, vote on new initiatives and help shape the future of this project.
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NEARBY EXPERIENCES
We’ll be curating lists of nearby experiences to add onto any of your VLC stays and support local businesses. From ziplines, skydiving, wine tasting, local restaurants, etc.
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