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stoned-trout · 06-16-2014, 02:37 AM

nothing in the usa is free anymore...just wondering if and where in the usa you can camp for free legally if it exists... I know a few desert spots but that's it...anyone from the usa know spots to camp overnight or for a few days for free???? thinking of doing some low budget traveling .....peace

Bud Green Sr. · 06-16-2014, 02:47 AM

BLM land.... Plenty of that out west... Been a few years, but I used to just go in and camp without permits or fees...
Especially around the Moab, Utah area....

PS.. Moab area is really great if you have a jeep or other small 4X4..

stoned-trout · 06-16-2014, 03:09 AM

lowriding at the moment so thats out..lol never really like Utah.kept going to dry areas and no booze no trout.the old lady tried to get me to move there...then she just decieded to keep the house....lol.. one of the local blm land spots is day use and charges. the other closed....I got gps for my laptop and handheld ..gonna take a look see

armedoldhippy · 06-29-2014, 05:55 PM

most of the National Forest property here in the southeast is open for free camping if you like to "rough it". IE- no electricity, no water, no porta-john etc. that is why the Rainbows stay there in the spring & summer. see them on Choccolocco WMA in Alabama almost every spring...

Stoner4Life · 07-10-2014, 01:43 AM

Wal-Mart, you can park in any one of their parking lots you like

07-10-2014, 03:49 AM

The upper peninsula of michigan.
One of the least developed, least commercialized areas Ive ever seen
and somehow not that well known to the outdoor sports crowd.
When I lived out west, it seemed like no matter how off the beaten track I got, I would always encounter
other campers with shiny toyota trucks decked out with the best mountain bikes or rockclimbing gear etc.
The UP has much less of that trendy Outdoor magazine crowd. And not much in the way of cattle ranching or cattle grates. Its not close to any major populatuion centers like calif. nor is it on the way to anywhere due to it being a peninsula. Most detroiters stay in the lower peninsula for recreating leaving the UP strictly for yoopers - a hardscrabble ornery bunch. No freeways ( except for a small stretch of I75) and most towns dont even have much fastfood restaurants. The area feels like its stuck in the 1950's. Not much of an economy. Some forestry but almost no agriculture of any kind.

What it does have is lots of wilderness, water, waterfalls, swamps, and fishing including trout. Not much nasty critters or torrid heat either unlike the southeast but the winters are bad, real bad and the black flies will suck your blood out in the spring. It might be a bit like Maine but more desolate.

lost360 · 07-10-2014, 04:14 AM

We camp free in Olympic mountains every year lots of trout in the rivers up there and its like a post card

Stoner4Life · 07-12-2014, 09:12 AM

nothings better than a minnesota summer, we only get a handful of days over 90F, here it is mid July & the weeks predicted high temps are from 68F to 80F for next friday, monday's high is supposed to be 60F due to a cold front w/rain, most of the temps to be mid 70s.......

come on out & camp for free

06-16-2014, 02:37 AM	#1
stoned-trout if it smells like fish Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: bible hill estates Posts: 8,328	land of the free my ass... nothing in the usa is free anymore...just wondering if and where in the usa you can camp for free legally if it exists... I know a few desert spots but that's it...anyone from the usa know spots to camp overnight or for a few days for free???? thinking of doing some low budget traveling .....peace __________________ SML..iff mi spellin and centances suk and yoo don't lyke itt too fukkin bad;/?.....I once was asked what I would say upon getting to the gates of heaven??? m/r is a visitors badge an option??? I would like a few drinks at the bar... YEEHAW....vote for real legalization not sum bullshit...free the weed or kiss my ass...you wont be getting my tax money..
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06-16-2014, 02:47 AM	#2
Bud Green Sr. I dig dirt Join Date: Sep 2013 Location: in the hills Posts: 2,633	BLM land.... Plenty of that out west... Been a few years, but I used to just go in and camp without permits or fees... Especially around the Moab, Utah area.... PS.. Moab area is really great if you have a jeep or other small 4X4.. __________________ ... Isn't Mother Nature grand !
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06-16-2014, 03:09 AM	#3
stoned-trout if it smells like fish Join Date: Feb 2014 Location: bible hill estates Posts: 8,328	lowriding at the moment so thats out..lol never really like Utah.kept going to dry areas and no booze no trout.the old lady tried to get me to move there...then she just decieded to keep the house....lol.. one of the local blm land spots is day use and charges. the other closed....I got gps for my laptop and handheld ..gonna take a look see __________________ SML..iff mi spellin and centances suk and yoo don't lyke itt too fukkin bad;/?.....I once was asked what I would say upon getting to the gates of heaven??? m/r is a visitors badge an option??? I would like a few drinks at the bar... YEEHAW....vote for real legalization not sum bullshit...free the weed or kiss my ass...you wont be getting my tax money.. Last edited by stoned-trout; 06-16-2014 at 03:30 AM..
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06-29-2014, 05:55 PM	#4
armedoldhippy Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: Tennessee, hell yeah! Posts: 5,155	most of the National Forest property here in the southeast is open for free camping if you like to "rough it". IE- no electricity, no water, no porta-john etc. that is why the Rainbows stay there in the spring & summer. see them on Choccolocco WMA in Alabama almost every spring... __________________ smoking more pot is NOT the answer to my problems. my problem is that i need more problems that smoking more pot IS the answer to...
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07-10-2014, 01:43 AM	#5
Stoner4Life Medicinal Advocate Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: wandering further down the path less travelled Posts: 24,474	Wal-Mart, you can park in any one of their parking lots you like
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07-10-2014, 03:49 AM	#6
PermaBuzz Guest Posts: n/a	The upper peninsula of michigan. One of the least developed, least commercialized areas Ive ever seen and somehow not that well known to the outdoor sports crowd. When I lived out west, it seemed like no matter how off the beaten track I got, I would always encounter other campers with shiny toyota trucks decked out with the best mountain bikes or rockclimbing gear etc. The UP has much less of that trendy Outdoor magazine crowd. And not much in the way of cattle ranching or cattle grates. Its not close to any major populatuion centers like calif. nor is it on the way to anywhere due to it being a peninsula. Most detroiters stay in the lower peninsula for recreating leaving the UP strictly for yoopers - a hardscrabble ornery bunch. No freeways ( except for a small stretch of I75) and most towns dont even have much fastfood restaurants. The area feels like its stuck in the 1950's. Not much of an economy. Some forestry but almost no agriculture of any kind. What it does have is lots of wilderness, water, waterfalls, swamps, and fishing including trout. Not much nasty critters or torrid heat either unlike the southeast but the winters are bad, real bad and the black flies will suck your blood out in the spring. It might be a bit like Maine but more desolate.
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07-10-2014, 04:14 AM	#7
lost360 Member Join Date: Sep 2013 Posts: 50	We camp free in Olympic mountains every year lots of trout in the rivers up there and its like a post card
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07-12-2014, 09:12 AM	#8
Stoner4Life Medicinal Advocate Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: wandering further down the path less travelled Posts: 24,474	nothings better than a minnesota summer, we only get a handful of days over 90F, here it is mid July & the weeks predicted high temps are from 68F to 80F for next friday, monday's high is supposed to be 60F due to a cold front w/rain, most of the temps to be mid 70s....... come on out & camp for free
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