LIBERTY to Travel & CAMP on OUR Public Lands!
It’s YOUR land. So use it!
A great camp in the forest about 15 minutes outside of West Yellowstone.
Now you can pay $30+ a night to “camp” in a gravel lot called a campground with power hookups and TV. Or, you could camp here; on land we already paid for and with no camping fee. I’ll take that any day! LIBERTY CAMPING!
I’m typing this from the trailer and behind me is the Grand Tetons. Once I finish, we’re going out to explore during this much needed break, a 2 week road trip in the Super Camper.
I’m blessed to be able to travel for my work, but with liberty activism and running for office in recent years, I’ve not been able to venture out as much as I would like. Change is coming to America and I’m on alert now. But we’re still getting out. On this trip we’re spanning a few thousand miles as we explore make new Pictorials for my gallery.
We don’t camp in parks, we camp in the wild, boondock. I make images and videos for my day job as we enjoy creation. There’s nothing like an American road trip and everyone should get in the car take one whenever they can. Life is different on the road. But it’s good and our camper was one of the best investments we’ve made. It’s also a preppier rig. We can and have lives out of this thing.
Today’s camp!
We’ve been all over America and taken road trips as long as 4 months in the camper, which is fitted with solar and lots of things to make it totally off grid. Read our Super Camping guide here for lots of tips and links.
Sondra is usually navigator and studies maps and the posts of others as we drive to find us great spots. You can see the map of the places we’ve been and some of the best camping spots in America. We don’t comply with checkpoints and we don’t pay camping fees. We explore! If a ranger or officer ever gives us trouble about using OUR lands, the camera comes out and so do the facts of law. Though we’ve not had many issues.
Today’s liberty camping TIP!
Did you know that on undeveloped Federal lands like NFS, BLM and others, it’s ILLEGAL for goverment to charge for parking, camping or most any other use. I don’t just mean constitutionally. It’s actually against Federal law. In truth it’s not free, we paid for it. But I prefer not to pay EXTRA fees to use my own land.
The National Forest has tried to charge for land use and got their asses handed to them in Federal court. Knowing our lawless Federal goverment that should not own all this land in the first place, I keep a copy of the National Recreation Act handy. It’s good I know the law better than they do.
Here’s a copy of the NREA you can download.
It’s actually simple legislation that mostly restricts THEM. It lays down rules for Federal agencies, when they can charge and when they cannot. So for example they still get to charge their outrageous National Park fees (don’t get me started) but they cannot charge to camp in the open forest, park, go for a hike.
Here’s a 9th Circuit ruling AGAINST the National Forest. Amazing they actually got one right. I keep a copy of this around in case an errant Ranger does not understand what I’m saying really is the law; most of them have never read the law. The ruling states in no uncertain terms that it is not open to twisting.
Having an amazing wife and like Sondra who loves liberty and going on the road, makes it even better.
Now after my dealing with the Federal Government, the BLM at the Bundy ranch and many other facets of tyranny; I’m even less a fan of the massive overreach and land control that the Feds have taken. We need to take it back. But as we work towards that goal, I will use it and enjoy with my family. It’s out land.
I love getting away and setting up camp. We use map apps like Accu Terra that show detailed land boundaries and I use all kinds of public lands all over America. But the Federal lands are in some ways the simplest, because they are all bound by the same rules.
What about STATE and other public lands.
These don’t fall under Federal regulation and vary by State. I still use them of course. My standard guideline is this. If land is public and not marked restricted, usually we camp there and have no trouble. I use common sense and am always prepared to have a conversation to educate a public official that this is public land and there are no restrictive signs. Finding unrestricted places is a skill that improves over time and as you learn to use maps and resources.
State Parks are often exorbitantly priced. Because the people of that State have failed to reign in their goverment, they get away with charging you whatever they want. We avoid them unless there’s something special we want to see. We camp outside parks most the time and avoid the many hassles. NO, you won’t have a tidy yuppie campsite waiting for you. But the adventure of finding a real campsite is half the fun. We find the best spots on the way to the popular places. We find the worlds best campsites and often leave them even better.
Sometimes you just park and hope you are left alone and usually you are. One time in California, I had a tacticool BLM agent come to a camp we had made way up in the Forest. We used the detailed map to find a tiny patch of BLM land. I think he was shocked we found it and he kept trying to convince us to go to one of their nice pay campgrounds, as he looked around for something we were doing wrong. No I said, we like it up here and we prefer to camp for free. He left.
It’s not that costly because you;re not paying near hotel costs just to park. Food cost is about the same from the camper and really our trip budget is measured by how much gas we will use. We set how far we will go accordingly.
Being self sufficient on the road is not only a family adventure. It helps you learn to be self sufficient and it’s training in itself. I just wanted to share this in hopes it will help others better make use of OUR lands. There’s nothing like taking your family on the road, seeing the sights and teaching them about liberty.
Liberty to travel, liberty to defend yourself, liberty to be left alone!
— Gav
Exploring in Colorado from a few tears ago. About time to go find a campsite. We also can mount a dual sport on the truck and sometimes take it with us.