Winter in California
SNOW: snow ski, snow-mobile, snow shoe, snowboard, snow sledding
DESERT: desert spas, desert hikes, desert parks, desert 4×4 trails
We have California covered. Venture off the beaten path to find secluded camp sites, for free. Grab a new map to discover new unheard of areas. All parks, all forests, all California wilderness. Find remote guest ranches, forest lodges, wildflowers, fishing lakes, kayaking rentals and swimming holes.
digital camping / outdoors for free
Yes, I know your smartphone does almost anything. Everything except get you outta the city into nature. Google Maps won’t always cut it in the wilderness. Neither will your smartphone without a digital signal. Remote back roads, trails and secondary roads are often mis-marked by MapQuest, Google & Yahoo. USGS data from ages ago, like 1970 or maybe 1985. Nothing beats the real thing! We have all the hiking and wheeling maps to get you out there. Camp withouts fees — on the back roads with a free campfire permit, a water bucket and a shovel.
Travel more often, locally and on a budget. Dig up rich historic destinations, take hikes and bike paths to waterfalls in the hot summer, fish on a secluded creek with a private camp site, or kick back on the sunny deck of a river view cabin.
Lake camping (at its best) in the Sierra Nevada mountains
One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast… a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk bound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards.” – Edward Abbey
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