Post your Sneakiest Stealth Camp
I learned that it was a $120 dollar fine after I stayed overnight on a college University campus. Cops were looking for all the rvs due to the graduation festivities the next day. I got away with i...
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The only "stealth camping" we have ever done is camping in the visitor center parking lot because we showed up too late. Every time it has happened the park rangers have been exceedingly friendly and understanding.
Oh, one time we camped on a street of a development that never got past the street construction phase. The owner ended up farming the lots, so we were on a public street on a hill in the middle of corn fields. We were noticed and a neighbor came by to check us out. After I told him I had just scared off a bunch of kids who came up here to get high, he gave his teenaged son a dirty look, thanked us and left. Technically it may not have been legal because we took up a lot of room in the cul de sac, but there was no reason to expect a lot of traffic either. I doubt a police officer would have hassled us.
We were hassled by a police officer once at a dog park in our own town. We had just gotten the camper, drove it to the park to have lunch and I decided to take my afternoon nap. Someone thought we were suspicious and called the police. Brand new Ram 3500 and brand new Lance camper, sparkling clean and beautiful and the police officer gives my wife the third degree. I'm really lucky he didn't wake me up because I would have been hopping mad. It still pisses me off when I think about it. I should have had a talk with the chief. I probably will next time I see him.
Oh, one time we camped on a street of a development that never got past the street construction phase. The owner ended up farming the lots, so we were on a public street on a hill in the middle of corn fields. We were noticed and a neighbor came by to check us out. After I told him I had just scared off a bunch of kids who came up here to get high, he gave his teenaged son a dirty look, thanked us and left. Technically it may not have been legal because we took up a lot of room in the cul de sac, but there was no reason to expect a lot of traffic either. I doubt a police officer would have hassled us.
We were hassled by a police officer once at a dog park in our own town. We had just gotten the camper, drove it to the park to have lunch and I decided to take my afternoon nap. Someone thought we were suspicious and called the police. Brand new Ram 3500 and brand new Lance camper, sparkling clean and beautiful and the police officer gives my wife the third degree. I'm really lucky he didn't wake me up because I would have been hopping mad. It still pisses me off when I think about it. I should have had a talk with the chief. I probably will next time I see him.
