“Camp for Free” covers everything you need to know to enjoy dispersed camping, said Soares. With dispersed camping, your cost is zero.” If you travel for two weeks and spend $30 a night, you’ll be out nearly 500 bucks. “Campgrounds are often crowded, noisy, and smoky,” he said. While campgrounds have some benefits, Soares feels they have many downsides. Nothing compares to a perfectly dark desert sky filled with stars, or a remote mountain range with no signs of civilization.” “For me, it’s the perfect way to find solitude and beauty, plus places to hike and explore that are distant from the crowded areas most people go. “I’ve been doing dispersed camping for over 30 years all over the western United States,” said Soares, who lived in south Siskiyou County from 2005-2012. Best of all: it’s legal and almost always free, Soares said. Soares, who has written five hiking guidebooks on Northern California, is the author of the new book “Camp for Free: Dispersed Camping & Boondocking on America’s Public Lands.”ĭispersed camping (boondocking to the RV crowd) typically involves heading down a road (often dirt) on national forest or Bureau of Land Management land and finding a beautiful spot to camp far from organized campgrounds, and usually far from other people. Veteran outdoors writer and former Siskiyou County resident John Soares has the solution: dispersed camping. Many of us want to explore Siskiyou County’s abundant beauty, and we’d prefer as few people around as possible when we do it – especially these days.
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