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But what makes Campendium very valuable are the well-written and informational reviews of sites by other RVers.

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Campendium includes information on hundreds of free sites along with paid sites and RV parks. Leigh and Brian of Aluminarium have and continue to work really hard to provide the nomadic community an extremely valuable website. The website Campendium is our primary resource to find boondock sites. The fridge I have linked is the most similar one we could find on Amazon.) (Learn more about residential fridges in our blog post Residential Fridges In Boondocking RVs. Including the food we have in the pantry, we can probably go close to a month before really having to go into town for groceries. Our apartment-size residential fridg e fits enough fresh food for two weeks. The need to empty them is typically the reason we have to leave a boondock site. Our two gray water tanks add up to 80 gallons of capacity. In fact, we got rid of our black tank during the rebuild. Thanks to our Air Head composting toilet, we don’t ever have to empty our black tank. When we do need to refill it, we use our 30 gallon water bag (you can read how it works and a review of it in this blog post). Our fresh water tank is 40 gallons, which lasts for almost 2 weeks. The way we’ve set up the Toaster allows us to stay in one boondock site for up to a month: My posts Operational Differences Between Traditional and Sustainable RVs goes into more detail about the differences between the Toaster and other RVs. But other benefits come with being 100% powered by solar: we save money on not having to purchase propane and fuel for a generator, along with saving money on truck fuel for town runs, and we don’t have to deal with the sounds of running a generator. As outdoor enthusiasts, that’s very important to us. We love the idea that we’re staying on undeveloped land (but always on established sites) in the middle of nature and doing no additional harm to it. Our main reason is to be environmentally friendly. What Jerud and I have done is eliminate the need for any fossil fuels (propane, gas, or diesel) to power everything inside our RV that allows us to live similarly to how we did in a regular house. RVers that add on after-market solar panels decrease the frequency they need to use a generator. As long as RVers make town runs to refill their propane tanks and get fuel for their generators, they can boondock as long as they want until they run out of fresh water or their gray/black tanks fill up.

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Then a gas or diesel generator to charge up the RV batteries that powers other electrical needs such as a water pump, lights, electronics, and sometimes A/C. Those RVs depend on propane to run the fridge, stove, hot water heater, and furnace. RVs that come straight off a sales lot have the ability to boondock, even if they don’t have solar panels. This is all extremely enticing and exciting for outdoor enthusiasts and RVers who prefer boondocking. In some states, the government agencies own the majority of the land, for example, 80% of the land in Nevada is federally owned. That and the fact that the population density is a lot less out west than in the eastern U.S. Most of this public land lies west of the Mississippi, which is why there’s ample boondocking on that half of the U.S. Similar to car campers, it’s on these public lands that RVers find places to boondock. But each agency has distinct responsibilities. These agencies manage the land for the main purposes of preservation, recreation, and development of natural resources. (Source) Four main federal agencies own and manage the public lands: the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), National Park Service (NPS), and Forest Service (FS). The federal government owns roughly 640 million acres of land, which is 28% of the 2.27 billion acres of land in the U.S.

For us, boondocking means staying in an undeveloped area without any hookups for free.

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