If you’re like me, you like to just throw down a tent wherever the fancy strikes you, and camp your butt off. Sometimes you don’t want to deal with the hassle of going to a campground, sometimes you don’t want to deal with the COST of going to a campground (I almost choked when I saw one campground near Santa Barbara, CA listed as having spots for *$70* each…in a campground??)…and sometimes you just want to get away from it all.
Now, thanks to Boondocking, you don’t have to search and search for a place to do it. Grab a GPS and go! Also check out Waymarking.com for more lists of campsites that you might not need a GPS to get to.


July 14th, 2009 at 1:46 am
You are absolutely right. Who needs those campgrounds.Just throw down your tent wherever you want. Did the same in Santa Barbara, CA once. BTW , the have really clean jails. And its free.
July 15th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
Hmm, excellent point. Let me re-phrase.
If you’d like to just camp in the wilderness, in a park, or off-road, not in the middle of downtown Santa Barbara, then you are like me. I can’t stand organized campgrounds with little water hookups and a thousand noisy neighbors toasting s’mores, when I can be camping in the desert miles from anyone else. But the jail, I admit, is probably nice and cheap.
December 22nd, 2009 at 7:00 pm
That picture looks suspiciously like the playa.