Forest Service campground at Dixie Summit, great boondocking (if you don't mind a few flying critters)

Forest Service campground at Dixie Summit, great boondocking (if you don’t mind a few flying critters)

| Lite / Green RVing, national forests, Pacific Northwest, public lands, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Journey Summer 2013
It sometimes takes a little research to find the small campgrounds on Forest Service land. When one doesn't have access to the Internet, the absolute best source is the DeLorme State Atlas. We picked up the Oregon State Atlas at Crater Lake National Park. Each indivi
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Class B RVs, Part 1-- 'Is it a family van or a recreation vehicle?'

Class B RVs, Part 1– ‘Is it a family van or a recreation vehicle?’

| Lite / Green RVing, RV People, RV Types
Over the past decade, increased demand by consumers for more fuel-efficient recreation vehicles and technical innovations in the RV industry have led to a growth in the popularity of Class B motor homes. Also know as van conversions and campervans, Class Bs are favor
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Dry camping along Clark Fork River in Lolo National Forest

Dry camping along Clark Fork River in Lolo National Forest

| Lite / Green RVing, national forests, Pacific Northwest, public lands, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Journey Summer 2013, RV Life, RV Types, wildlife
Last September we stumbled onto a dispersed Lolo National Forest campground right off Hwy 135, between mileposts 14 and 15, heading downriver (north) from St. Regis, Mont., along the Clark Fork River. We were actually looking for Lolo National Forest's Cascade Ca
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Back at Casa Grande with longtime & new RV friends, wild winds, beautiful desert sunsets

Back at Casa Grande with longtime & new RV friends, wild winds, beautiful desert sunsets

| Lite / Green RVing, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Journey 2012-13, RV Life, RV People
After just one night at Patagonia Lake State Park we headed north and east back to the Escapees' RoVers Roost RV Park near Casa Grande, Arizona. We spent the first night in boondocking; and were blessed with a site with hookups on Monday. Blessed because night temp
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SKP RoVers Roost RV park near Casa Grande

SKP RoVers Roost RV park near Casa Grande

| RV / Camping Destinations, RV Journey 2012-13, RV Life, RV People
We camped here at the SKP RoVers Roost RV Park, an Escapees RV Club member park, near Casa Grande, Ariz., a year ago, staying about a week because of high winds across the desert west of here. This season we are heading in the opposite direction and we're stopping ov
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Campsite at BLM Hot Spring near Yuma, Mexico

Campsite at BLM Hot Spring near Yuma, Mexico

| Bureau of Land Management, International RVing, Lite / Green RVing, RV Journey 2012-13, RV Life, RV Types
We are tucked in at the Bureau of Land Management Hot Spring LTVA just off I-8, exit 131. This is a strictly boondocking / dry camping destination. Only for those who enjoy living off your tanks. Actually that's pretty much what most recreation vehicles have in comm
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BLM Hot Spring LTVA perfect wayside stop

BLM Hot Spring LTVA perfect wayside stop

| Bureau of Land Management, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Journey 2012-13, RV Life, RV People
This is our third visit to the Hot Spring Long Term Visitor Area that sits on Bureau of Land Management property between El Centro, Calif., and Yuma, Az. This natural spring is much more humble than the resort spa we visited in Desert Hot Springs ... it features onl
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Heading out for an RV trip to the Mojave Desert

Heading out for an RV trip to the Mojave Desert

| Bureau of Land Management, Lite / Green RVing, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Journey 2012-13, RV Life, RV Types
It's been a fairly damp and chilly winter in the foothills of the Sierra Mountains where we've been 'resting' for a couple of months. It's time to load up the truck and camper and head south and east to the Mojave Desert in search of hot springs. One of our first sto
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'Boondocking' part 3 -- Fulltime RVers Paul and Becky Bates are 'independent' campers

‘Boondocking’ part 3 — Fulltime RVers Paul and Becky Bates are ‘independent’ campers

| Lite / Green RVing, national forests, national parks, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Life, RV People
This is the third and final installment of a three-part series on 'Boondocking.' Fulltime RVers Becky and Paul Bates do both pavement camping and boondocking and prefer to call it “independent camping.” “It means that we are prepared to dry camp but make use
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'Boondocking' part 2 -- Marianne Edwards of Frugal RV Travel.com

‘Boondocking’ part 2 — Marianne Edwards of Frugal RV Travel.com

| Lite / Green RVing, national parks, RV / Camping Destinations, RV Life, RV People, RV Types
This is the second of three postings on Boondocking. Frugal-rv-travel.com blogger Marianne Edwards and her partner Randy Sturrock travel in a 2002 Roadtrek class B van camper and are big dry-camping fans. “We bought an RV so that we could have all the comforts w
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