BLM camping

The solitude is the whole point of dispersed camping — and also the reason nobody’s around when something goes wrong. Here’s how experienced boondockers actually protect their rigs. There’s no front desk out here. …

You won’t find these people on the campground reservation website. But drive far enough down the right dirt road, and you’ll know them when you see them. There’s a gesture that every serious boondocker …

Every year, the campgrounds fill up by Thursday. Every year, we go the other way. There’s a particular kind of stillness that settles over a dispersed site on Memorial Day weekend — the kind …

April’s thin slice of perfect weather is closing fast. Here’s where to point the rig. There’s a narrow window in the American West — somewhere between the last spring storm and the first hundred-degree …