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As someone currently living the #vanlife (involuntarily), a "camp site" is useless without place to pee.
Been vanlifing for ten years, I pee in a jar in my van just fine. It's POOOPING that's complicated, many days.
$100? what is this paying for. surely $100 from one user can pay for the RDS instance and hosting for the entire year. boondockers welcome was free for a long time before they introduced a fee. then they were $30 per year, and now $79. What makes you better - a newer website, a shorter domain name? more chic graphics?
If you're doing it full-time and you don't have anything to fall back on, you're eventually gonna stay at some crappy motel at least a handful of times. Hard to imagine two such stays are gonna end up being less than $100
Why would restroom access be required for camping? That's not something normally associated with camping, is it? Is my idea of camping that far off?
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I sadly stopped hosting a few years ago. What happened to the community/site? I must've missed that part?
They killed the useful forums, made the login page a "dashboard" so useless you had to bookmark other pages to remember how to get to them, made a bunch of unrelated sections nobody wanted, increased font sizes so you couldn't fit much on the page and thus finding useful information got worse, ignored feature requests, refused all offers of volunteer tech work, introduced a "chat with random people nearby" that led t…
Is there any real hope left to save it and bring back the community? Is it too late? I wish I paid more attention :/ Had I known this was happening I would've done more... seems like people tried, to no avail? It's really sad.
It was such a fantastic resource and I really wish I could still host (my partner's not too into it... maybe I'll try to convince her if there's any more community left TO host).
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…
Like this website, the important caveat is in the Southwest . Public lands other than formal parks and preserves are basically nonexistent elsewhere.
There's a lot of free camping out there, you just have to look for it.
$400 per night for a 2-stars hotel? Is that really the case? That sounds absolutely insane, even for most 5-stars.
Try to find a hotel less than an hour from Yosemite.
- $45/night Moderne Hostel (2-star, rating: 4.1)
- $65/night El Dorado Motel (2-star, rating: 4.0)
- $84/night Aladdin Inn (3-star, rating: 3.9)
- $78/night Country Inn Sonora (2-star, rating: 3.5)
... this is just from google maps. Someone more knowledgeable I'm sure could find even better deals
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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 tried to build a community once with just a landing page and a contact form, it'll be hard - borderline impossible - to bootstrap like that. Nice design though.
> All you need to provide is a parking spot and restroom access during designated hours Why would restroom access be required for camping? That's not something normally associated with camping, is it? Is my idea of camping that far off?
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…
You can camp for free in all unimproved areas of US national forests that aren't designated wilderness areas or otherwise designated as off limits for dispersed camping. This is something like 98% of the forests. The exact rules can vary a bit from place to place, so always check with the ranger station in that area (don't rely on the website!) for anything special. You usually need to have a permit if you're parking…