Finding safe location for boondocking
How do you determine if an area is safe for boondocking? How do you identify--and avoid--high crime areas?
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We go by our gut feeling. A place that feels fine one day be be different next visit. Often it depends on other people in the area at that time. If we have neighboring boondockers, we make a point of walking over and getting a feel for them. If they seem okay, we stay and, although unspoken, we now feel we're sort of looking out for each other.
For urban areas, we just learned of a free app called SpotCrime that shows up-to-date crime maps for various areas of a city. Have yet to try it ourselves, but it seems like a great tool. It's at the play store at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotcrime.spotcrimemobile&hl=enhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotcrime.spotcrimemobile&hl=en
For urban areas, we just learned of a free app called SpotCrime that shows up-to-date crime maps for various areas of a city. Have yet to try it ourselves, but it seems like a great tool. It's at the play store at:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotcrime.spotcrimemobile&hl=enhttps://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spotcrime.spotcrimemobile&hl=en
