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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There is a big difference of deliberately breaking the law and stealth camping within the law or not knowing the law.
In our town you could spend a night or two or three at the ice rink any time of the year and not have a problem. In most towns around here you could park on the street for a night or two with no problems. BUT there are places that are clearly signed and doing so is illegal and you deserve a ticket if you do so.
I have heard of people spending a night at a roadside pullout that technically is illegal but when you just cannot drive any further it is safer to do that then to drive on. But saying that we will do a trip across a country doing that is asking for trouble.
I stealth camp in a park that I go to and in all the times doing so (NEVER during the busy season always off season) I was only asked to move once and then the warden told me to camp in the closed campground so it worked out.
I also have been asked to move during the day in a parking spot at a day use area. The person showed up and was VERY upset that I was not in a camping spot (1:30 in the afternoon). I asked if this was not a day use area and he said yes, I asked if the guy next to me was okay and he said yes and then I asked why I wasn't and he said I had a truck and camper and I was camping. Told him I was only there for the day, which I was, and if he had a problem to please call a police officer and we could sort it out. He left and nothing more was said - if I had a camper in a standard van he would never had said a thing to me!
In our town you could spend a night or two or three at the ice rink any time of the year and not have a problem. In most towns around here you could park on the street for a night or two with no problems. BUT there are places that are clearly signed and doing so is illegal and you deserve a ticket if you do so.
I have heard of people spending a night at a roadside pullout that technically is illegal but when you just cannot drive any further it is safer to do that then to drive on. But saying that we will do a trip across a country doing that is asking for trouble.
I stealth camp in a park that I go to and in all the times doing so (NEVER during the busy season always off season) I was only asked to move once and then the warden told me to camp in the closed campground so it worked out.
I also have been asked to move during the day in a parking spot at a day use area. The person showed up and was VERY upset that I was not in a camping spot (1:30 in the afternoon). I asked if this was not a day use area and he said yes, I asked if the guy next to me was okay and he said yes and then I asked why I wasn't and he said I had a truck and camper and I was camping. Told him I was only there for the day, which I was, and if he had a problem to please call a police officer and we could sort it out. He left and nothing more was said - if I had a camper in a standard van he would never had said a thing to me!
