Finding Campsites for R1s

[Ckwest]

Ok - we were all excited to go camping, but found out that we can’t sleep in the back of our SUV in most RV parks.

Some campsites require renting.

Soo - where does one camp? How does it work??

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[babock]

Camp in a campground...not an RV park.

 

[JM.]

You must be in CA? It's the state that stands out as being a problem for car camping. Someone said it's because homeless can declare it a homestead easily and stay there, dunno. But it's the only place where someone told me I can't car camp.

Some campsites require renting.

What does that mean? Camp sites may be free or may have a fee, right. That seems obvious. "Camp sites" and RV parks are usually very different on rules and amenities.

 

[Ckwest]

Camp in a campground...not an RV park.

Thanks! We called CA State Parks and they said we couldn’t use a campground either!

 

[FooF]

Try Alabama Hills in Lone Pine it has free dispersed camping (only in marked sites). First come first serve and gets hot in the summer. Tons of free dispersed camping along the rest of 395. Try trailsoffroad.com they list trails by difficulty and have many campsites marked. 36.58474, -118.11346 this site is 4 miles from a tesla supercharger. https://www.blm.gov/visit/alabama-hills

 

[Riviot]

1. Buy yourself a really cheap tent off Amazon.
2. Set it up in the campsite, sleep inside your AC'd R1S.
3. ???????
4. Profit.

 

[JM.]

1. Buy yourself a really cheap tent off Amazon.
2. Set it up in the campsite, sleep inside your AC'd R1S.
3. ???????
4. Profit.

My phone call:

So I can sleep in a trailer? Yes. Any kind of trailer? Um, yeah. So an open motorcycle trailer is a trailer and I can sleep "in" in it right?

Uuuuhhhm, well...

And if I get up in the middle of the night and go sit in my car and stare out the windshield that's ok, I'm camping "in" the trailer not the car?

............Well...

What if I fall asleep, am I now camping in the car?

So anyway, I booked it, had my empty motorcycle trailer, popped open my tent, and slept in the car. Fuck 'em.

 

[JM.]

Thanks! We called CA State Parks and they said we couldn’t use a campground either!

What they say may not matter. Ask them to quote the rule against this.

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=21300

https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1029

 

[Ckwest]

Yes, in CA. Interesting re homeless. I’ll look into that.

Try Alabama Hills in Lone Pine it has free dispersed camping (only in marked sites). First come first serve and gets hot in the summer. Tons of free dispersed camping along the rest of 395. Try trailsoffroad.com they list trails by difficulty and have many campsites marked. 36.58474, -118.11346 this site is 4 miles from a tesla supercharger. https://www.blm.gov/visit/alabama-hills

cool thx

 

[JM.]

Camp sites often have generators. Including mine, I'm the asshole, like many others. And I've had far more loud music problems in sparse campgrounds than RV parks. There's nobody around to put an end to it. Doesn't solve the problem though since he's being told you can't car camp there either.

 

[VSG]

I tend to use hookup sites at campgounds, so I can charge overnight. I've never encountered a situation where they care whether you're in your car/van/RTT/tent or in an "official" RV, but I suppose that could be a regional thing. In my experience, the campgrounds that have nice tent sites tend to have nice hookup sites too, with room to pitch a tent if you want as well as some separation/privacy from the adjacent sites. The places advertised as RV parks tend to be big parking lots in my experience, and I never use those.

 

[Thedude]

Just buy a $20 Walmart tent to pitch and you’re good.

 

[Dark-Fx]

Camp sites often have generators. Including mine, I'm the asshole,

Least surprising thing I've read today

 

[babock]

Thanks! We called CA State Parks and they said we couldn’t use a campground either!

That is not correct

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