Sad state of our National Parks-II
Again, this is not political. It is to our interest as RVers and for Camping World business to have an outstanding national parks that usually provide the cheaper camping facilities and best places t...
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pnichols wrote:The risks and liability would be too great for a landowner. The landowner wouldn't want ATVs racing across their pastures and cropland. Roads would be needed to prevent the RVs from just tearing up the landscape. One person's rockhounding is someone else's license to dig for buried treasure.
Now, one small step back towards the OP's topic: IMHO, I think something that could partially replace National Park/Lands camping that would be popular with some RV'ers for their vacations (as opposed to most folks living in their RVs for long periods) would be the availability of recreation drycamping on large private land-holdings with beautiful scenery and maybe on the edge of ponds, lakes, or rivers with say, a hundred yards or more, between camping sites.
ATV's, fishing, hiking, photography, bird watching, rockhounding, etc. would be allowed as available and appropriate. Checkout would be required so that before leaving, the camper would have to wait while the camping manager (or ranch owner) could have each vacated "boondock type" campsite inspected to make sure no trashing or tank dumping had occured. If the inspection showed that the campsite was left in good condition, a deposit would be returned to the camper at checkout time.
I guess this could be called "paid private land boondock camping". I'd be willing to pay hundreds of dollars per week for this kind of isolated, pristine, private camping ... maybe once or twice a year if and as I could budget for it. There may be a very few "dude ranch type" private RV camgrounds like this in the U.S. already, but I haven't yet researched it.
Relying on strangers to open and close gates is a fool's errand. I know from experience that people will tell you what they think you want to hear and if left unsupervised do what the heck ever they want. The landowner can tell those boondockers not to cut down trees for firewood, that all fishing is catch and release, that open fires are prohibited, that they can't have 100 people join them for a big party but if they don't actively monitor those guests the is no assurance that is what is going to happen.
Nothing but common sense is currently stopping what you describe.
