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Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by AuthorizedCust »

zucked wrote: post #33
solardev wrote: post #9

For anyone looking for actually free, no strings attached (and no subscription) camping, check https://freecampsites.net/ instead. It's a community wiki of free camp sites, usually on federal lands of various sorts (National Forests and BLM lands often have primitive campsites with fire rings and not much else). It's great for travel around national parks, especially. But please do leave no trace, pack out what you b…

Everything you wrote is bang on - please, please, PLEASE: Leave no trace. Haul out your garbage. Don't shoot, shit, or camp within 100 yards of streams, creeks, or rivers. Don't make fire rings where they already exist. Abide by fire restrictions that might vary by county. Stay on existing, marked hiking and motor vehicle trails. As a resident of the West (which has huge swaths of "public" land) I am so tired of folk…

> Don't make fire rings where they already exist.

I think you mean that we should only use extant fire rings and not make new ones?

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by Aachen »

zucked wrote: post #33
solardev wrote: post #9

For anyone looking for actually free, no strings attached (and no subscription) camping, check https://freecampsites.net/ instead. It's a community wiki of free camp sites, usually on federal lands of various sorts (National Forests and BLM lands often have primitive campsites with fire rings and not much else). It's great for travel around national parks, especially. But please do leave no trace, pack out what you b…

Everything you wrote is bang on - please, please, PLEASE: Leave no trace. Haul out your garbage. Don't shoot, shit, or camp within 100 yards of streams, creeks, or rivers. Don't make fire rings where they already exist. Abide by fire restrictions that might vary by county. Stay on existing, marked hiking and motor vehicle trails. As a resident of the West (which has huge swaths of "public" land) I am so tired of folk…

> PLEASE: Leave no trace

Someone once mentioned "Leave it nicer than you found it" as a life philosophy, maybe in relation to Japan? I'm not sure anymore.

I've taken to that, like when going for a forest walk, even if I pick up literally one tiny plastic wrapper, that's still leaving the forest better than I found it. Of course, pristine is pristine, but if there is trash, go for that good feeling and consider an easy thing to do that would improve the situation by any amount!

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by webnrrd2k »

jmspring wrote: post #37
zucked wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything you wrote is bang on - please, please, PLEASE: Leave no trace. Haul out your garbage. Don't shoot, shit, or camp within 100 yards of streams, creeks, or rivers. Don't make fire rings where they already exist. Abide by fire restrictions that might vary by county. Stay on existing, marked hiking and motor vehicle trails. As a resident of the West (which has huge swaths of "public" land) I am so tired of folk…

Also, you leave out (which the comment you mentioned does) - please respect local rules. For instance, in Death Valley, you can free camp most anywhere (refer to NPS guidelines) two miles off of a designated roadway.

But try to be aware of what you're signing up for: Death Valley Germans [0]

[0] https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu...

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by solardev »

livueta wrote: post #50
zucked wrote: post #41

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes - 100%. There is zero excuse for not knowing/abiding by local rules/regulations. The USFS, BLM, and others have troves of information posted online. A local area has gone to great lengths to put up signage stating that unlicensed off-highway vehicles are NOT ALLOWED to travel the main stretch of USFS fire road. So what are people doing? Screaming up and down that very road on unlicensed off-highway vehicles at 2/…

To add to all of this great info, to any prospective dispersed campers: please use high-quality, recent, ideally official maps of your choosing to ensure you're on the sort of land you think you are. Boundaries can change and notes on spots aren't always up to date. My area involves a mix of national park, national forest, DNR land, and private land, and I regularly see dispersed campers getting ticketed for unwittin…

That's a really good point. Although not every agency produces good dispersed campsite maps, they typically do have at least boundary maps on their website.

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by shkkmo »

mtmail wrote: post #24
fishtoaster wrote: post #14

This has the feel of a site someone set up to gauge interest based on signups, rather than something that actually exists. I've never been quite sure how I feel about those: smart product testing or disingenuous bait-and-switch?

That's the new first step for startups: build a landing page, collect email addresses, only then start building a product. Hard to judge from the outside how much already exists (the first big image is a stock photo). https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html says signup pages and waiting lists are usually off-topic.

Rights, so if this is only a sign up page for a waiting list, then this post is not allowed as a Show HN

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by aloisdg »

Aachen wrote: post #52
zucked wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Everything you wrote is bang on - please, please, PLEASE: Leave no trace. Haul out your garbage. Don't shoot, shit, or camp within 100 yards of streams, creeks, or rivers. Don't make fire rings where they already exist. Abide by fire restrictions that might vary by county. Stay on existing, marked hiking and motor vehicle trails. As a resident of the West (which has huge swaths of "public" land) I am so tired of folk…

> PLEASE: Leave no trace Someone once mentioned "Leave it nicer than you found it" as a life philosophy, maybe in relation to Japan? I'm not sure anymore. I've taken to that, like when going for a forest walk, even if I pick up literally one tiny plastic wrapper, that's still leaving the forest better than I found it. Of course, pristine is pristine, but if there is trash, go for that good feeling and consider an eas…

I know this one as the boy scouts rule: always leave the campground cleaner than you found it.

Kind of true for codebase too

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by renewiltord »

solardev wrote: post #46
renewiltord wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, if I'm going to be honest, if you can't afford $100/yr you can't afford to host, so you're not going to be a contributor to their community. Looks like the filter is working.

Hosting is actually free (as it should be). I used to be very active on Couchsurfing and have hosted dozens of travelers -- to rave reviews, and much more often than I stayed. It doesn't cost me anything to share a couch (or a room, on the rare occasion I had a spare). What I'm objecting to is the website taking $100/yr -- for what? It's unclear -- on principle, when communities like it have existed for far cheaper a…

How can hosting possibly be free? You need a parking spot and a restroom to offer.

Re: Show HN: Van, truck or car camp for $0 a night

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Post by tastyfreeze »

solardev wrote: post #9

For anyone looking for actually free, no strings attached (and no subscription) camping, check https://freecampsites.net/ instead. It's a community wiki of free camp sites, usually on federal lands of various sorts (National Forests and BLM lands often have primitive campsites with fire rings and not much else). It's great for travel around national parks, especially. But please do leave no trace, pack out what you b…

Not sure if this is true in other states. In Alaska you are allowed to camp on State of Alaska land for 7 days in one location. Often state land is within a few miles of a community. State Parks on the other hand often cost a few bucks a night.
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