Campsite Squatters

mkirsch wrote:


I've never understood this human need to be in places where you're clearly not welcome/wanted.

I don't see how this statement even remotely relates to the topic . Welcome/wanted by whom ?

Freep wrote:
Have any of you noticed people leaving their trailers in great campsites on BLM and USFS land during the week and then showing up on the weekends to camp?

Yeah I've noticed the same thing at COE camp grounds same years back. Eastern OK/SW MO/NW AR has many large COE lakes and over the years have lots of places for people to camp. Some are like rv parks others are primitive and most in between.

In the early years some folks would leave their trailers just about all summer in the better camp spots like down next to the water where people with fishin' boats liked to camp. I've seen utility trailers....old boat trailers with the bunks missing...and even tents sit for weeks at the better campsites.
Later after enough hell was raised new rules limited their doing this to 14 days.
Many just left their trailers and never used them for the full 14 days....so new rules in the more popular camp places says the trailer has to be occupied so many hours out of a certain time frame.

Certain type of people, we called them camp site hogs back then, will as we see bend the rules because they have the bucks to do so. COE/BLM/USFS lands belong to everyone...not just a few with the bucks to hog a camp spot for weeks/months and not use it.

lakeside013104 wrote:

mkirsch wrote:


I've never understood this human need to be in places where you're clearly not welcome/wanted.

16 little words with a very powerful meaning derived from deep routes.

I agree with you mkirsch....... If someone does not enjoy my company, I can be gone, for good.....never to darken your 'door' again. Too many wonderful places to go to. If one is taken, find another. If someone doesn't want you around, family, friend, or stranger, pack up and leave for far off places of your choice. Life is too short to be caught up in the drama of unhappiness, hatefulness, or being mean. I live my life, you live your's. Don't get in my way, I won't get in your's. Treat others as you wish to be treated. If others treat you differently, move on. Relax, be appreciate of the ability to move across this country with relative ease, freedom to make your own decisions, and within a cautioned level of security.

Time to get off my soap box before someone finds me a nuisance and if someone does, everyone is entitled to their own opinion!
Safe travels to all.

Lakeside

Right on.;)

mkirsch wrote:


I've never understood this human need to be in places where you're clearly not welcome/wanted.

16 little words with a very powerful meaning derived from deep routes.

I agree with you mkirsch....... If someone does not enjoy my company, I can be gone, for good.....never to darken your 'door' again. Too many wonderful places to go to. If one is taken, find another. If someone doesn't want you around, family, friend, or stranger, pack up and leave for far off places of your choice. Life is too short to be caught up in the drama of unhappiness, hatefulness, or being mean. I live my life, you live your's. Don't get in my way, I won't get in your's. Treat others as you wish to be treated. If others treat you differently, move on. Relax, be appreciate of the ability to move across this country with relative ease, freedom to make your own decisions, and within a cautioned level of security.

Time to get off my soap box before someone finds me a nuisance and if someone does, everyone is entitled to their own opinion!
Safe travels to all.

Lakeside

Freep wrote:

jimh425 wrote:
I think he’s saying that people following the rules are selfish.

You are quite wrong.

What word would you prefer? I’m ok with you saying whatever word works for you.

I wouldn't dump my junk in a spot to hold it but if it's allowed through some spirit of the law, so be it. I'll use it when I'm there and leave it to somebody else when I'm done rather than deprive others a campsite for selfish purposes.

jaycocreek wrote:

I do the same thing but come hunting season,there are no places to go where others aren't..It's during hunting season they all reserve there spots by leaving there rigs there prior to actually being there...It's just the way things are here,nothing you can do about it.

I'm not surprised. Idaho is where we were when a 3 trailer group decided to camp right next to us and when they left they drained their black tank on the way out.

jimh425 wrote:
I think he’s saying that people following the rules are selfish.

You are quite wrong.

Seminoe Joe wrote:

Freep wrote:
Have any of you noticed people leaving their trailers in great campsites on BLM and USFS land during the week and then showing up on the weekends to camp?

I haven’t noticed it where I go. But I tend to go way out into the boondocks where not many other people go on purpose. Plenty of space out there in the world. No need to go where others are.

I do the same thing but come hunting season,there are no places to go where others aren't..It's during hunting season they all reserve there spots by leaving there rigs there prior to actually being there...It's just the way things are here,nothing you can do about it.

Freep wrote:
Have any of you noticed people leaving their trailers in great campsites on BLM and USFS land during the week and then showing up on the weekends to camp?

I haven’t noticed it where I go. But I tend to go way out into the boondocks where not many other people go on purpose. Plenty of space out there in the world. No need to go where others are.