Regional guide
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 the Southeast: What Humidity Actuall...
The desert asks what you brought. The Southern Appalachians ask what you can keep dry. A regional guide to rain, wet cold, black bears, ticks and firewood rules across the...
Camping in the Southeast: What Humidity Actuall...
The desert asks what you brought. The Southern Appalachians ask what you can keep dry. A regional guide to rain, wet cold, black bears, ticks and firewood rules across the...
Desert Southwest Camping: What the Desert Actua...
Southern Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, organised around what the desert asks of you — inverted seasons, water you have to haul, monsoon floods, Stage 2 fire restrictions that...
Desert Southwest Camping: What the Desert Actua...
Southern Utah, Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico, organised around what the desert asks of you — inverted seasons, water you have to haul, monsoon floods, Stage 2 fire restrictions that...
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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