Locating the City and County parks

Naio wrote:

wxtoad wrote:
We have found The Ultimate US Public Campground Project to be the most comprehensive source for public camping locations of all types: federal, state, county and city.
They have a website as well as iOS and Android apps.

Right now we're at a great little county park, Lock and Dam Park, near Rome, GA, which we found using Ultimate Campgrounds.

Ted H.

I see they have zero campgrounds in California. That can't be right.

Edit:: Also zero in Indiana. Or is the site even slower to load than it seems?

You have to zoom in to open the clusters and see the individual campground icons.. I just checked and CA and IN are all there.

Ted H.

Thanks all. Good resources, Some I knew about and some new.

Thanks DutchmenSport. I see now, you have to load the state map to see the filters.

Naio wrote:

wxtoad wrote:
We have found The Ultimate US Public Campground Project to be the most comprehensive source for public camping locations of all types: federal, state, county and city.
They have a website as well as iOS and Android apps.

Right now we're at a great little county park, Lock and Dam Park, near Rome, GA, which we found using Ultimate Campgrounds.

Ted H.

I see they have zero campgrounds in California. That can't be right.

Edit:: Also zero in Indiana. Or is the site even slower to load than it seems?

Here's California from AllStays, give it a minute to load the map. This is "all" campgrounds. Once it loads, you can filter on the right by county, Good Sam, State, etc. click here.

wxtoad wrote:
We have found The Ultimate US Public Campground Project to be the most comprehensive source for public camping locations of all types: federal, state, county and city.
They have a website as well as iOS and Android apps.

Right now we're at a great little county park, Lock and Dam Park, near Rome, GA, which we found using Ultimate Campgrounds.

Ted H.

I see they have zero campgrounds in California. That can't be right.

Edit:: Also zero in Indiana. Or is the site even slower to load than it seems?

cpd520 wrote:

DutchmenSport wrote:
Allstays.com is a pretty good source. Here's the result, simply for "Indiana County Campgrounds". This is pretty accurate too. It takes a minute for the map to come in: Click here.

I don't see the ability to filter for county/city parks. Is that only available with Allstays Pro?

I just did a Google search from my laptop computer for "Indian County Campgrounds". The link above returned. I don't know how it jumped into the "pro" version, I most definitely did not pay for it. I noticed if you click on Allstays main link (upper left corner) on the page, you go to the home page, under "Online Journey" click on the "Camping" link. And your in. Othrwise just do a google search,.

Using Good Sam Find a Campground after searching for campgrounds you can search by rating and look at the ones with no rating as these are the ones you are looking for
But this only tells you the names and where they are

We have found The Ultimate US Public Campground Project to be the most comprehensive source for public camping locations of all types: federal, state, county and city.
They have a website as well as iOS and Android apps.

Right now we're at a great little county park, Lock and Dam Park, near Rome, GA, which we found using Ultimate Campgrounds.

Ted H.

You might like this website too.

FreeCampgrounds.com

They offer a lot of free BLM campsites, some federal and state campgrounds, a few city parks, if their fees are pretty low.

They also list places like "Jack's tires" they allowed me to stay free overnight when I needed a tire. Personally I would not want to 'camp' there, but in a pinch, for one night and leaving at 7 am when they open. ..

They list a few casino's and other free places in town. Mostly I am looking for places out of town, or in such small towns, it really does not matter. I don't care if I am camping in the middle of a town with a population of 85 people, or right next to a National Park.

Good luck!

Fred.

Here is one source but there are many more. Of course, not all public sites are free. One source does not cover all that's available - even Allstays.

Many times a state visitor center will have a brochure or if you know a town you'll be passing through, Google that town to see if they have a park. The state of Texas has an excellent booklet. South Dakota has great city parks. Montana and Idaho have awesome fishing access sites.

As full-timers we got many referrals from other RVers. We also used Fish & Wildlife sites, power companies sometimes have campgrounds on their waterways, some national wildlife refuges have campgrounds, there are many national forest campgrounds, some even updated with full hookups. In the West check out the BLM lands and country-wide the Corp of Engineers parks. There are many options rather than a RV park.

16 years ago when beginning full-timing, I started my own computer list of campgrounds I read about or that were recommended to us. You would not believe the size of that file 16 years later! People have said I should sell it! :) The last I looked I had almost 600 pages to it - all by state. We mostly traveled the secondary roads and our preference was always a public park or scenic boondocking area. We found it very useful.

Free Campsites