EDITOR’S NOTE: Mike and Jennifer Wendland, Michigan-based RVers and creators of the RV Lifestyle website, podcast and YouTube channel, are joined by Kyle Brady of Drivin’ & Vibin’ for a discussion on why authorities are closing down dispersed camping sites – aka boondocking – at BLM lands across the country. Click here to be taken to the RV Lifestyle website.
Across the country, officials are shutting down boondocking areas in many areas because of growing problems with vandalism, litter and even human waste.
Blame it on a combination of homeless encampments in some areas and inconsiderate campers who fail to clean up after themselves and keep clean campsites.
But the result is the same, frustrated state, federal, and local officials in charge of public lands once open to dispersed camping, are closing them down rather than fight what they see as a losing battle.
But the people who lose the most are those who like to boondock in wilderness areas, campers who do follow the rules but now find themselves with fewer and fewer places to enjoy off the grid camping on public land.
For RV Podcast Episode 349, we talk with an expert in free camping spots, Kyle Brady, publisher of the Drivin and Vibin Website. Kyle has been closely tracking the growing list of closed boondocking locations and has lots to share.
