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kfp673
Explorer II
Aug 12, 2020

Buying land for camping...

Hello all,

I am not sure if this is in the correct category, and this is really just a curious question / dream. Has anyone every (or known anyone who has) purchased a piece of land specifically to either leave your camper or take your camper to for camping? I am not speaking of the RV parks where you own your lot. I am talking about a random super rural property where you are on your own. As I sit at an RV park in northern PA with a site right on the lake, I think it would be amazing to have a property deep in the woods that sits on a pond or lake with no one around but us. But I would think getting electric/water/sewer to those locations would be costly.

Again, purely curious.
  • ppine's avatar
    ppine
    Explorer II
    Aug 12, 2020
    When you run out of access to public land, then buying your own parcel is a viable idea. I never liked the idea of going to the same place all the time. It is why I will never buy a second home for recreation.

    Camping or having an RV allows for discovery and new places and experiences which is the whole point of going out there if you ask me.
  • ford_truck_guy's avatar
    ford_truck_guy
    Nomad
    Aug 12, 2020
    My best friend purchased 99 acres in Upstate PA for this exact reason. He is W of Towanda .. He dug a well, placed a 55 gallon drum about 10' under the ground with a TON of holes in it for waste..
    He has a small solar set up for the well pump and runs a generator when he wants electric for the camper.. He cleared about a half acre to park on and it is on the top of the mountain overlooking everything.

    He also placed stone from the dirt road up to his cleared spot.. just enough to allow him to pull his 35' TT up to the location

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