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kfp673
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Aug 27, 2020

PA Boondocking??

I have done overnight tent camping along hiking trails, and I have used our travel trailer in campgrounds, but I have never "Boondocked" in the travel trailer. I love the thought of finding open land and just spending the weekend or more. But where? PA has plenty of land but I feel most is posted, owned by mining companies, or would otherwise not be allowed. Anyone have suggestions or locations in PA or surrounding states? Or, any types of lands I could look at? Thanks
  • PAThwacker wrote:
    PA Boondocking on state forest is called motorized camping with permit max 30 nights per year at established sites. Sites have fire ring and picnic table same rules at parks with carry in carry rules. Some may be near PA DCNR wells for water fresh.


    Allegheny National Forest. 14 day Max per stay camp anywhere.
    I use a popup camper for boondocking, open up entire screen area. I don’t have to worry about any overhead obstacles and get the 20 foot highwall pup on almost all sites.


    Thanks again. We just got back from the weekend of camping at an RV park. Friday morning we ventured out to scout some of the sites in your area in the state forrest. 3 of the 6 sites are huge and I don think I'd have any problem putting a35' trailer on. The others we visited in that area as well as over closer to Pecks Pond area would be more of a challenge, and some are definite no. Overall beautiful area and we are going to see if we can get one of the sites in a few weeks. Thanks for the info!

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