RV:2012 Montana 3625RE Quad Slide SKP#108921 TV:2004.5 Dodge Dually 3500 HD Favorite Quote:''Life's tough, pilgrim, and it's even tougher if you're stupid.''-- John Wayne
I do it because I have a very limited income..always have had. Doing the math...if one pays $20.00 a night, plus tax....that's 700 a month. If 30? that's a nice $1,000. Plain and simple..I could never afford to pay out that kind of money and travel as much as I have done. I also shop Wal-Mart to stretch my dollar. Buy Shell in Canada for Airmiles, look at the clearance bins for my meat products.
I have always worked hard for my income and I have no desire to part with it any easier than needs be.
Now..having said all of that, I also enjoy being the only one by the ocean/creek/lake/mountain top. I don't use parking lots unless it's an absolute need-to-do. I also meet lots of people..I will park in public places, leave my door open..people walk by, look in...say hi.
Really...there is nothing I need at a campsite. I dump my garbage when I buy fuel or shop. Water I find almost everywhere and tank dumping is a weekly event. I am self-sufficient and like it that way.
Gary Haupt
I have a Blog..about stuff, some of which is RV'ing.
How come nobody said adventure? Nothing like waking up in the AM with bear tracks walking past the camper. Yeah, I know that could also happen in an established campground, but it's more special when it's your own private bear.
And how about convenience? Forget driving from campground to trailhead. Just camp at the trailhead.
Tiger4x4RV wrote: How come nobody said adventure? Nothing like waking up in the AM with bear tracks walking past the camper. Yeah, I know that could also happen in an established campground, but it's more special when it's your own private bear.
And how about convenience? Forget driving from campground to trailhead. Just camp at the trailhead.
When I was 9 years old we visited a hunting and fishing lodge my uncle owned in a remote area of eastern Canada. That made a tremendous impression on me, I loved the unspoiled country and that hasn’t changed a bit in the last 60 years. I gave my parents a lot of heartburn wandering off exploring the wilderness then. They’re, of course, now gone but the DW has since tried to fill their role.
So in your poll I guess being close to nature is the closest category to why I boondock, though it’s not totally complete. The ability to actively explore country that hasn’t been trashed by development and “improvements” is a big factor, likewise the freedom associated with it. Those strong feelings no doubt explain my antipathy to cities and development of any kind, including developed campgrounds. As far as “greenies” go, most I know are not outdoorsmen, they’re city dwellers with noble visions of how we should all live and I rarely see them camping myself.
You might do another poll just for fun to find out why folks DO NOT boondock.
In our case wife is on oxygen, so we would need to either carry a generator and run it all night, or get a really big battery bank, or stay where there are electric hookups. We've tried bottled O2, but we travel mostly instead of sitting in one spot, and getting tank refilled is the pits. An O2 concentrator like our Sequal works great, but needs power.
Chuck
Wonderful Wife
Australian Shepherd
2010 Ford Expedition TV
2010 Outback 230RS Toybox, 5390# UVW, 6800# Loaded Not yet camped in Hawaii, 2 Canada Provinces, & 2 Territories I can't be lost because I don't care where this lovely road is going
2012 Fun Finder X-139 "Boondock Style" (axle-flipped and extra insulation)
2013 Toyota Tacoma Off-Road (semi-beefy tires and components) Our trips -- pix and text About our trailer
Shoot, boondock sites can be better than campgrounds. The price makes them even better!
Why leave the city in an RV only to drive to a new temporary community that's more crowded than your home neighborhood (smaller sites)? Why have noisy (and maybe nosy) neighbors when one could be all alone and listening to the frogs and loons? Why look out on a vista of trailers and motor homes, when one could look out over uncluttered, unimproved nature?
Mike & Sherry
2000 Mercury Mountaineer
2008 Toyota Highlander
2011 KZ Spree Escape E14RB
First and foremost for us, RV'ing is "camping" but in a more comfortable way. We don't care to be camping in a community, so we try not to park our RV in a community.
However I think a lot of folks may be a bit scared or a bit apprehensive or a bit leery of boondocking because then they're completely by themselves, so I think they prefer to stay in their RV in a community. We are fortunate in being able to boondock with another couple who have an RV similar to ours, so we can travel and park in relatively high security in remote areas ... which for us constitutes "true camping".
Personally, I wish there were more (any?) Class C RV'ing clubs who intentionally planned their group trips centered around boondocking - much as this trailer club does:
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