The problem
Camping research is scattered
How it usually goes
One site lists the forest. Another maybe has a map. Weather is somewhere else, and it’s for the nearest town 3,000 feet lower. Fuel, water and a place to dump are three more apps. Half the “free camping” listings you find are actually fee campgrounds, and nothing tells you whether the road in is passable.
How it goes here
Pick a place. The page tells you what it is, whether camping is actually allowed and free, what the weather is doing at that spot, and which services sit within driving range. One screen, one answer, no sign-up.
What’s inside
Built for leaving the pavement
The spine of the site is resupply logistics — where you get water, fuel, groceries and a dump station. Weather is a layer on top of that, not the point.
Every forest and grassland
All 110 national forests and 20 national grasslands, each with a written field guide: what it is, its history, and what you’ll actually find there.
Camps you can reach
Dispersed and free sites with the access road and surface — plus an honest label when a spot turns out to be a fee campground rather than free.
Weather at the spot
Live National Weather Service forecasts for the camp’s own coordinates, not the valley town an hour away and half a mile lower.
Resupply within range
Water, fuel, groceries, laundry and dump stations mapped around each camp, so you know how far out you can actually get.
Maps that don’t phone home
Self-hosted pin maps, no third-party tile service watching you, and pages light enough to load on one bar of signal.
Search across all of it
One box over 13,934 indexed pages. It runs in your browser, so it answers instantly and costs the server nothing.
Who it’s for
Overlanders, dispersed campers, and anyone done with reservations
If your idea of a good night is a forest road and nobody within a mile, this was built for you. If you want a paved pad and a reservation number, there are better sites — and it will tell you so.
An honest note. Dave hasn’t personally stood at every one of these spots — nobody has. Every page says where its information came from, labels what’s an estimate, and leaves a gap rather than inventing a detail. Check current conditions and closures before you go.