Free camping, US public land
Find free camping.
Know the rules.
Where you can camp for nothing, where you can sleep overnight in a vehicle, and how long you can stay. Pulled out of a few hundred agency websites and put in plain English. Every rule cites an official source and shows the date we checked it.
Every rule is cited
If we say a state allows overnight parking, the policy is linked right there with the date we last read it. Check our work. Please do check our work.
Blanks stay blank
When we have not verified something, we leave it empty and say so. A blank means unverified, not permitted. A confident guess is how you get a ticket.
The sign always wins
Rules change without telling us. Roads close, districts change limits, towns pass ordinances. Start here, then believe the posted sign over this website.
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Free Camping
Dispersed camping on public land, state by state. Rules, stay limits, and how to find a legal site.
Open ›Rest Areas
Which states let you sleep at a rest area, for how long, and where the policy actually says so.
Open ›Boondocking
Camping with no hookups. Water, power, waste, and what sends people back to town first.
Open ›RV Power
Solar sizing, battery banks, and generators. The arithmetic behind an off-grid system.
Open ›Gear
Power stations, fridges, and filters compared on the specs that decide the outcome.
Open ›Internet
Starlink, cellular, and boosters. What works where, and what it costs you in watts.
Open ›RV Living
Full-timing without the highlight reel. Real costs, domicile, mail, and healthcare.
Open ›Do the math first
The parts of off-grid camping that are arithmetic, not opinion. Live as you type, and nothing you enter leaves your browser.
Camping rules are public. They are just badly filed.
The BLM publishes its dispersed camping rules. The Forest Service publishes stay limits and motor vehicle use maps. Every state DOT has a rest area policy. It is all out there, scattered across agency sites and written for agency staff. This site is the version you can actually read.
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