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Nowhere to go

Lightning55
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I live in northern CA and went online yesterday searching for a camping spot for a future weekend outing with the new 5th wheel. EVERYWHERE is booked solid for months. Anywhere near the coast is impossible, and going into the mountains are slim pickings with all the state park closures due to fires.
I might as well just park it in front of my house and pretend we're in the mountains. Is everywhere else like this? Owning this rig and an expensive tow vehicle hardly seems worth it if we can't go anywhere.
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dedmiston
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We're headed to the desert tonight. It's actually going to be cooler there than home.

It's wide open, free, and doesn't require reservations.

My point is to get creative, because there are places in CA to camp. This isn't to minimize your problem though, because finding camping spots is definitely a crazy byproduct of the pandemic.

I don't want to give away any of my secret spots, but I've noticed that a lot of seaside communities are starting to open up funky parcels of land for camping. They aren't cheap and they're typically dry camping (no hookups), but they're definitely springing up.

We went out last weekend and completely overpaid $72/night to be sandwiched into a gravel lot downtown at the beach. There were vacancies though. The only reason we went was because our close friends were going and we love them exactly $72 worth, but not one cent more. If it had been $73, we probably would have balked, and $75 would have been a deal breaker.

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