mrw8i wrote:
BoonHauler wrote:
mockturtle wrote:
IMHO, staying in USFS campgrounds is not boondocking.
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Maybe, but my 35' Toy Hauler ain't getting to the ones I go to. My 17' TT can barely make it there after driving down 10 miles of one lane unpaved washboard forest service road with 2000 foot elevation change, and can barely make it around the tiny tight road in the campground.
Not sure when it's boon docking and when it's not. I could skip the campsite and drive another mile down that same road and could call it boon docking. The only difference, no campfire allowed boon docking. Neither has trash, water, electricity, sewage - one has pit toilets but I prefer my own black tank.
Technically, boondocking is the same as dispersed camping. No campground, no facilities. You are just setting up camp out near a trail (service road) somewhere.
Dry camping is done within the developed or primitive campground.
But people mean all sorts of things when they use these terms (like "boondocking at Walmart"), so you can't really assume what the OP really wants to do until they come back and clarify.
