Sash and I reunited after 6 weeks of being apart. It was the longest period of time we had ever been apart, even going back to when we were just dating. There we were, under 103 degree F sunshine, along the banks of the Columbia River, at a remote campground and boat launch called,...
Probably your best choice for free camping near Salida, CO is at Shavano Wildlife Management Area (WMA), in the hills just west of Poncha Springs. Shavano WMA is named after Mt. Shavano, one of the “fourteeners” that make up the greater Rocky Mountain range in Colorado. The area is owned by the Bureau of...
This past week, our ATC Toy Hauler reached its 25,000th mile of towing. It took 2 years and 3 months to get there. Most trailers don’t come with an odometer for tracking miles towed, but I started keeping track of miles on a little note-keeping app on my cellphone. I did because I wanted...
Silos Campground is a paid-campground along the western shore of Canyon Ferry Lake, Montana. It’s the only paid-campground owned by the Bureau of Reclamation, but managed by the County of Broadwater. Sites cannot be reserved online. It’s strictly walk-in only, first-come-first-serve. I came here for one night on Sunday, July 14, 2019, because I...
Goose Bay is an area along Canyon Ferry Lake, at its eastern shore, about 30 minutes east of Helena, Montana. There’s actually two campgrounds at Goose Bay, this one, the dispersed area, and a fully developed campground, Goose Bay Marina & Campground. Depending on your point of view, the dispersed area is a far...
Pelican Point FAS (Fishing Access Site) is one of hundreds of such sites that dot the Montana landscape. Many of them are free to camp, but the majority still require some kind of camping fee. Run by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Parks, most of these fishing access sites are open to...
Bean Lake Fishing Access Site (FAS) is a tiny lake in Montana, about 67 miles southwest of Great Falls. It’s free camping, and one of a few free campsites offered by the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks. Bean Lake offers only two campsites for RVers, but there appears to be two, maybe...
Lowry Bridge Access Site is probably one of the few choices for free RV camping in the Great Falls, Montana area, and even at that, it’s not necessarily one of the better. Run by the Bureau of Land Management, is effectively a place to launch your boat on to Sun River and do some...
Fort Peck Lake is a massive body of water in eastern Montana, the creation of a dam built along the Missouri River during the 1930s by the Army Corps of Engineers. As a result, it created lots and lots of recreational shore line. Most of that shore is inaccessible by vehicle. Yet still, there’s...
Fort Peck Lake loomed large on Google Maps, taking up a huge chunk of real estate in the north-east quadrant of “Big Sky Country”, otherwise known as Montana. I wanted to camp there. Seems like, there ought to be some good camping to be had for free on something so large. As it turns...