September and October hand boondockers the best weather and the emptiest sites of the year — right up until the sun drops and the temperature falls with it. Here’s the fall boondocking prep that …
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The last big holiday weekend of summer packs BLM pullouts and forest roads with campers who’ve never dispersed camped before. Here’s how the people who’ve done this for years can make sure everyone leaves …
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Nobody’s Watching Your Rig But You: Rethinking Security for Peak Boondocking Season
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. …
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While the desert floor bakes and the campgrounds fill, the mountains open. Here’s how to follow the elevation and find your best summer sites. Somewhere around the second week of June, the low-elevation boondocking …
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The campsite, the solar, the gear — those you can improvise. Run dry three days from a tap and the trip ends. Nobody talks about water the way they talk about solar. There are …
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Why a proper cast-iron camp breakfast is one of the best rituals a boondocker can keep. The desert wakes up before you do. By the time the canvas is pulled back and the boots …
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Every shut-down dispersed site in the West has the same origin story. Here’s how to stop being part of it. A site I loved closed recently. Standard issue — pretty creek, BLM, ten miles …
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 …
A miserable night twenty miles out beats a ruined trip a thousand miles in. Every spring, the same thing happens. Somebody on the forums posts a glamour shot of their rig parked at some …
