Your Favorite Boondocking Pics

This was a quick three-day trip I recently took in central Colorado the first week of January. We're currently in a drought, with very little snow, but this makes boondocking at 9K feet in the Colorado Rockies possible this time of year.

This is near Horton Creek, on BLM land, northwest of Bishop, Calif., just a week ago (mid-Dec. 2017):


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And this is on the Volcanic Tablelands, north of Bishop, a few days later, also on BLM land. We expected the Tablelands to be deserted because it was midweek in December – wrong! There were plenty of RVs (mostly smaller rigs). A lot of the folks were climbers enjoying the plentiful and challenging “bouldering” opportunities. (Most of them were younger, as you might imagine.)


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Off Pavement wrote:
Taken a month ago near Craig, Colorado...

Awesome, love those colors!

ReneeG wrote:
memtb - great site! Even greater difference between outside temp and inside. 57 is warm compared to the outside!

It was 2 F yesterday morning, when we left camp and my have dropped a degree or two right at sunrise. We keep it cool on the inside, to save on batteries, propane and help us to acclimate to outside temperatures (we’re elk hunting). Our biggest challenge, is to keep the 55 gallon drum of water “thawed-out” to pump into fresh holding tank. We’ve only had a couple of days where the temp hit the low 30’s. Wrapped the drum in black plastic.....hoping for a little “solar heating” during the “sunny hours”!

memtb - great site! Even greater difference between outside temp and inside. 57 is warm compared to the outside!

profdant139 wrote:
ORbiker, you probably already know this, but there is some big rig friendly back road boondocking off of Highway 97, in the area around Crescent and Chemult. Also take a look near the north entrance to Crater Lake, in the national forest. Wide gravel roads, lots of places to turn around, plenty of good riding.

Yes 139
I know of many places to camp in that area.

There is no reason for me to primitive camp because I have a membership at Cascade Meadows RV Resort. 2 weeks for free w/full hookup. Maybe once we go full time we might use a boondock site near there to camp for our week out before going back to the park.

There is a nice spot just east of Cascade Meadows about 2 miles that has 3 or so free spots near a little creek.

profdant139 wrote:
Maman, great photo, and congrats on being able to post pix. (Not to mention congrats on living in Colorado --boondocking heaven. It takes us three days of hard driving just to get to that area.)

Here is a suggestion -- try this link, if you have not done so already:

RV Photo Post app

It was created for us by one of the moderators (his name is 1492 -- bless him). You just go to that site, either drag your photo in or else use the select button, copy the code that pops up into the box, and paste that code into your message. So easy.

Keep on posting!!

Thank you! I think that is the very post that helped me figure it out. :-)

Our favorite boondocking place is...wherever we happen to be at the time...
This picture was taken November 3, 2017, we’re camped southwest of Meteetsee, WY, at about 7000 feet.





This morning’s temperature and probably dropped a degree or two after we left camp. Pretty decent temperatures for this time of year.

Off Pavement, that's an awesome view you got (had) there.

Taken a month ago near Craig, Colorado...