National park
One honest guide per region: where you can actually sleep, which permits you need and when they open, what water exists, and what the weather really does. Every fee, date and figure is checked against NPS, BLM, NWS or USGS before it goes up — and rechecked when the season turns.
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Six regions, and the parks inside them. Tap a marker to open that guide — scheduled guides show the date they publish.
Camping in Great Smoky Mountains: Parking Tags,...
No entrance fee is the most misunderstood sentence about the Smokies. Parking tags, the ten campgrounds, the April 2026 backcountry fee change, the firefly lottery, and what to actually pack.
Camping in Great Smoky Mountains: Parking Tags,...
No entrance fee is the most misunderstood sentence about the Smokies. Parking tags, the ten campgrounds, the April 2026 backcountry fee change, the firefly lottery, and what to actually pack.
Camping in Moab: Arches, Canyonlands and Everyt...
Where you can actually sleep around Moab, what water exists, and what changed in 2026 — the end of timed entry at Arches, Stage 2 fire restrictions that close the...
Camping in Moab: Arches, Canyonlands and Everyt...
Where you can actually sleep around Moab, what water exists, and what changed in 2026 — the end of timed entry at Arches, Stage 2 fire restrictions that close the...
Camping in Yosemite National Park: The Gate Mov...
Yosemite dropped its timed entry reservation for 2026 — so the bottleneck moved inside the park. Campground releases at 7am on the 15th, the Half Dome lottery in March, wilderness...
Camping in Yosemite National Park: The Gate Mov...
Yosemite dropped its timed entry reservation for 2026 — so the bottleneck moved inside the park. Campground releases at 7am on the 15th, the Half Dome lottery in March, wilderness...
Flying overseas?
We ship gear inside the US only, but two of our guides cover trips worth crossing an ocean for. Same approach: real permit windows, real hut and campsite rules, real costs.
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Tour du Mont Blanc for Americans: Where You Can Legally Sleep
The TMB is not wilderness — it is a working, inhabited, densely regulated landscape, and the camping law changes at nearly every municipal boundary. What Italy,...
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West Highland Way for Americans: You Have a Legal Right to Camp
Scotland gives you a statutory right to camp on most unenclosed land — no permits, no quotas, no lottery. There are exactly two catches on the...
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