In my opinion and experience, it is by far safer than living anywhere in a city. Some people are concerned if camping in the wilderness is safe. In the cold of winter I stay on BLM land in the desert Southwest, and in the heat of summer I move up into the mountains in the National Forests. For the last four years, I have lived almost exclusively in forest, mountains and deserts on public land without paying a penny for it. But after I retired I said goodbye to the city and headed for the hills. First, let’s look at true boondocking in the countryside:įor the first six years I lived in my vehicle I stealth parked in a city. In this article we will examine both styles of mobile living. There is a better word for staying in a WalMart parking lot, and that word is Stealth Parking. Only a remote location in the woods is true boondocking.” And, technically, they are right, that’s what the word means. The purists say, “Staying in a WalMart is not boondocking! It’s just cheap parking without hook-ups. There is a rift in the RV community about exactly what is boondocking. These signs are becoming more and more common across the country. They made WalMart post signs in their parking lot saying overnight parking was illegal. The cities wanted to protect the RV parks since they paid a lot of taxes on their land and income, and passed ordinances making boondocking illegal. So they approached the local city council and lobbied them to make boondocking (sleeping overnight in an unapproved place) illegal in their city. On the other hand, the RV parks didn’t think it was so great. They picked up a loyal group of shoppers who obviously had extra disposable income. After a while people saw that they could save a lot of money by not staying in RV parks and so they started planning their trips around WalMart stores, staying in their parking lots most nights of their trip. Since they had no hook-ups and were self-sufficient, they said they were boondocking. Then some people noticed that while they were driving for several days to get to the boondocks, they could save some money by staying overnight in the parking lot of a WalMart. Since you had no hook-ups, but were self- sufficient, you were boondocking. ![]() So if you were going fishing in your truck camper to a remote National or State Park, when you got there you were camping in the boondocks. When they came home they developed the slang word “boonies.” The RV community adopted the word to use it to describe remote camping in rural areas. They started using it to mean a rural, remote, bushy area. It comes from a Tagalog word for mountain, bundog. The word boondock originated early in the 20th century from American military servicemen serving in the Philippines. Of course, why anybody would want to overnight at a Walmart when there are so many better opportunities is beyond us! We simply can't figure it out.Is this boondocking? Some say “yes,” most say “NO”!! ![]() Since the law was enacted in 1994-95 no property owner has ever been prosecuted for violation of this provision, nevertheless, otherwise RV friendly property owners would have been intimidated by the mere threat of legal sanction.” According to the earlier interpretation of a provision in the Tourist Accommodations Act, a private landowner who did not have a campground license was subject to prosecution if he/she allowed RVers who were members of the travelling public to park overnight on his/her property. “The Tourist Accommodations Act remains the law of the land in Nova Scotia, however, officials of the Nova Scotia Department of Tourism, Culture and Heritage have stated that RV owners, as well as landowners are not committing an offence by simply parking or allowing parking overnight of an RV in a parking lot (i.e.: shopping mall parking lots and other private property). They rescinded the law and wrote it off as a bad experience issuing the following report at the time. In June of 2010, the government realized what they had done wrong. ![]() ![]() James Parish Church near Port Dufferin, Nova Scotia.
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