BLM camping?
I've been led to believe camping on a BLM land is free & randomly all over the place? So my question is, how do I know when I'm on BLM land that allows me to pick a spot & set up camp? Part of m...
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Escargot wrote:
I have PublicLands on my iPhone. It was developed by a couple who are fulltime RVers / programmers. It's GPS based so you know if the strip of land you're on is public or private, and it has other functions as well.
Very good app!
After reading this comment, I downloaded the app to my tablet and then spent some time looking around the country at the public lands.
Looking at Red River NM, the app shows the entire town to be sitting on national forest land... all the streets, the buildings, everything... that can't be right.
Then I had a look at Michigan, the state I grew up in. Hiawatha NF in the UP is a good example for me to make my point about the app. In Delta County, the Stonington Peninsula is roughly half public and half private (somewhat checkerboard fashion) according to my paper "Mapbook of Michigan Counties," but the app colors all but the very bottom tip of Stonington in NF green. Another problem spot is about 12 miles north of US 2 in that same county, where there should be about 60 square miles of private land forming a rough oval starting south of Round Lake and proceeding northward several miles; the app colors the entire thing as NF.
I'm not sure the app is ready for 'prime time'. For $2.99 I won't demand a refund, in hope that the app gets updated with more accurate data as time goes on, but I don't think I can rely on it yet for my boondocking site choices.
