Photo: HoneyTrek Know Your Vehicle’s Limits Montana’s National Forests provide a wealth of boondocking opportunities.
#Best boondocking free
We got all those goodies at Tobacco River, Rainy Lake and other free campgrounds during our recent Western Montana Road Trip. If you like the idea of wild camping but also having a few creature comforts, you’ll be happy to know that Glacier Country’s national forests and BLM land also offer a bunch of free camping with amenities like picnic tables, cook-ready fire pits, bear-safe food storage and drop toilets. Together they comprise over 9 million acres of public land…so you’ll have plenty of camping spots to choose from! Just be sure to read all posted signs and check the GPS-enabled maps on the US Public Lands app to make sure you’re not on private land. The prime areas for boondocking in Glacier Country are its four national forests (Lolo, Kootenai, Flathead and Bitterroot) and the countless Bureau of Land Management (BLM) areas scattered about the mountains, forests and glacier-carved terrain. While Western Montana has incredible camping opportunities inside Glacier National Park and the region’s 21 state parks, this is not the public land we’re talking about.
Pancake breakfast in the Kootenai National Forest. In its most admirable form, it’s living simply and in harmony with nature unplugging from technology and enjoying the wilderness’ symphony of sounds, earthy scents, starry skies and infinite wonders.
This style of recreation is meant for people who want to immerse themselves in the outdoors and are self-sufficient enough to do so. And to round out the vocab lesson, “wild camping” and “free camping” get thrown around too. It’s also called “dry camping,” alluding to the fact that you’re not tapping into utilities and often referred to as “dispersed camping” because you aren’t at a centralized campground. In its simplest form, boondocking is camping without the services of a campground (water, power, toilets, garbage collection, or other amenities). Boondocking at Rainy Lake in Lolo National Forest.
#Best boondocking how to
To help make that happen, here’s our primer on how to find the best boondocking spots in Western Montana and how to keep them awesome.
#Best boondocking for free
Because if we can all do that, we will protect the forests, watersheds, wildlife, fellow campers, ourselves, and the incredible opportunity to camp for free and on the fly. Over the course of our five-year RV road trip around North America, we have been boondocking almost exclusively and hope more people can experience this organic side of camping-but do it in a responsible way. This may sound like a rare find, but there are hundreds of millions of acres of dispersed camping (aka boondocking) like this all over the country, thanks to the U.S. It’s the perfect campsite…beautiful, peaceful, no-reservations required, and free. Imagine driving down a forest road toward snowcapped peaks, and you find a clearing in the trees along a river, with a fire ring just waiting for you.
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