About Boondock Maps

Find free camping. Know the rules.

What this site is

Boondock Maps is a free lookup for camping on public land in the United States. Where you can camp for nothing, where you can sleep overnight in a vehicle, how long you can stay, and who to ask when the answer is unclear.

Most of what you need is already public. The Bureau of Land Management publishes its dispersed camping rules. The Forest Service publishes motor vehicle use maps and district stay limits. Every state DOT has a rest area policy. The problem is that it is scattered across a few hundred agency sites, written for agency staff, and half of it is a PDF from 2014. This site pulls it into one place and puts it in plain English.

The rule about rules

Every rule on this site cites an official source and shows the date we last verified it. No exceptions. If you want to check us, the link is right there. Please do check us.

When we cannot verify something, we leave it blank and say we do not know. A blank field means unverified, not permitted. We would rather show you a hole than a confident guess, because a wrong stay limit is how you get a ticket, and a wrong "yes, you can sleep here" is how you get woken up at 2am.

Rules change without telling us. Roads close, districts change limits, towns pass ordinances. The posted sign and the land manager's current guidance always beat this website. Start here, then confirm before you commit.

What else is here

Gear comparisons for the parts of off-grid camping where the specs actually decide the outcome: power, batteries, connectivity, water. Calculators for sizing solar and generators, because those are arithmetic problems people usually solve by guessing and then overspending. And guides on the parts nobody explains well, like what "dispersed" actually means and why a national forest and a national park have completely different rules.

Who publishes it

Boondock Maps is published by Lucky Future LLC, 30 N Gould St Ste N, Sheridan, WY 82801.

It is a small operation, not a magazine with a masthead. We are not going to invent a staff of experts to look bigger than we are. Judge the work by whether the sources check out.

How it makes money

Display ads, and affiliate commissions on some gear links. Rules and legality content is never sponsored and gear rankings are not for sale. The full breakdown is in the advertiser disclosure.

Found something wrong?

Tell us. A stale rule is a real problem, and a correction with a link to the official source is the most useful email we can get. [email protected].