![]() ![]() On the road there, we saw a large semi-hidden RV boondocking. Sky, land and sea from Otter Point north of Gold Beach, OR. It was great, and we met some fine folks.Īnd while I'm at it, the ALLSTAYS Camp and RV app helps you find campgrounds and parks and dozens of other things RVers might look for, including "dispersed" camping areas, and Wal Mart and other businesses that allow overnight parking.ĭispersed camping, usually available on BLM or Forest Service lands, is free camping without amenities, the same as boondocking. We used Welcome Boondockers several times during our seven-week cross-country road trip last fall. The website shows hundreds, maybe thousands, of available driveways, fields, and whatever to park for the night, all over the USA and Canada and some in Mexico and other foreign lands. For $20 you can park on others' property and open yours to fellow travelers. If you have a self-contained RV, you can join, for $20 to $25 a year, a group called Welcome Boondockers.įor $25, you can park your RV on a member's property. It never hurts to try.īefore I leave the boondocking topic, here's a tip. Here we are leveled up with Lego thingies, our plastic rug on forest duff and mud, deluding ourselves about keeping the van tidy. We returned to the area later and discovered a perfect hideaway. I glimpsed a car climbing a steep gravel drive on the ocean side of the highway as we were passing by. Sometimes clean restrooms/showers, sometimes not.ĭuring our two-day coastal getaway, we scored a wonderful boondocking spot quite by accident. ![]() Too many commercial RV parks look like sales lots, just a bunch of big rigs lined up in a metallic row with a tree or two here and there. If you're rolling in a small RV, such as our van, you are self contained with water, heat, generator, and the all-important flush toilet. If you have an RV of any size, or are thinking about buying one, check it out. I learned this after we bought our Roadtrek Agile van in February 2016 and joined the Roadtreking Facebook group, aimed at travelers with small Class B RVs but open to all. (We once paid $86 at a KOA on the East Coast near Acadia National Park but that's another story.)īoondocking has become, I believe, something of a badge of honor. And, of course, the trade off is you also don't have electricity or water hookups, restrooms, laundry, or any of the amenities that can dock you $30 to $60 a night. I admit that until early last year, I thought boondocking had to do with living in the boondocks, which we pretty much already do in rural Southern Oregon.īoondocking, in camping terms, means parking your RV, or pitching your tent, someplace where you don't have to pay. Part of the trail followsĪbout that boondocking thing. Family, friends, relationships is what it boils down to.Īside from its stunning beauty, the Southern Oregon coast in the off season is more or less deserted. It all dissolves poisonous anxiety and opens the mind to focus on what really matters. The crashing waves, the salty scent of sea air, the glint of slanted sun on the water, the glowering clouds meeting the horizon. It never fails to energize, inspire, and, during these surreal political times, calm. We are fortunate to live near the Pacific Ocean - such a power-source. So PK released the Roadtrek from its antifreeze-induced coma, I put together a quick camp menu, and we motored 80 happy miles to the Southern Oregon coast. We heard the forecast, locked eyes, and said, Let's go! ![]() Storms have hammered Southern Oregon for months, but the furies took a break early last week for two entire days. We'd been retreating to the Oregon coast between Brookings and Gold Beach for decades before someone recommended this prime real estate-Thunder Rock Cove. See PK on the rocks on right? How insignificant we are on the land, and the sea dwarfs us even more. ![]()
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