HOWTO: Setting Up Your Campsite
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Why drive all the way back to town just to smell someone
else's woodsmoke? Camp where you are.
Simplify, Simplify
Campgrounds capitalize on the helplessness of
non-self-contained RVs by charging a premium for full
hookup sites. You aren't helpless. With an electric-only
hookup, you drive a short distance to the campground's
fresh water source and waste water dump every few
days. Do it on the way to the store or other trip that
you're going to take anyway, and it's no bother. In
addition to saving money, you'll also have a choice of
more campsites, since not all of them have full hookups,
or the even better choice of no campsite at all if you have
extra batteries and solar or generator capability, or are
just careful about your electricity use.
Freedom from hookups also opens up a whole range of
national and provincial forest campgrounds with limited
or no hookups to you. There is also dispersed camping in
national forests and crown lands and other boondocking
options, where you find your own campsite. There are
rules for where you can and can't boondock, so check the forest websites or drop in the ranger station for information. Once
you're out there, don't look around for those big rigs who are dependent on hookups - they're all back in town. It's just you
and nature, with the occasional backpacker.
