tool for free camping
 

This seems to be a nice tool to find campsites for free. At least in North America there are plenty of them listed. For the rest of the world it´s terra incognita more or less.
https://freecampsites.net

Check out this one, too: http://ioverlander.com/
You have to flag "informal campsites" and "wild camping"
It has a much better global coverage than freecampsites.net.

Cheers

Panny

Most of the world is terra 'familiar' for iOverlander.com and of course for its users, although with only 2000 places (not all camping of course) in Mexico, 1600 places in the USA and 900 in Canada, it is not the most comprehensive available for every country, but it has few equals AND it is free and is available in an app as well and the files are freely available for Garmin and for adding to several mapping applications such as mapsme and osmand so it is fully functional as well.

For boondocking in the usa we use https://freecampsites.net/ as you recommended, and we have used it a lot with good results

I checked it against a few of the campsites we used last year in the US and it didn't have any of them listed. I'm not sure listing Cabellas / Walmart car parks as "campgrounds" is much help if your idea of camping involves a tent but then again our tents were usually outnumbered about 50:1 by RVs in most commercial sites.

There were even a few KOA's we'd used it didn't list and if you've missed those out ...

I'd need a lot more confidence in it before I'd use it in preference to McDonald's wi-fi and googling "campgrounds near me"

Most camping lists don't encourage listing of walmarts and similar simply because there are already several POI lists just for walmart and both those sites don't want them - but iovelander being a user-driven site does end up with an occasional walmart, but very few considering.

Why would KOA campsites be on a site called FREEcampsites.net. Not ever stayed in a KOA, but don't think anyone would consider them anywhere low cost let alone free.

from freecampsites site
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For me such a tool does not have to list all spots. I see a value in it even if it shows me a couple I wouldn´t know otherwise.

Regarding the parking lots: it´s obviously not a motorcycle travellers only tool, but for RVs and other kinds of travellers, too.

Cheers

Panny

We be traveling in US and Canada in 2018. This is very good infirmation. Thank you !:clap:

Any of these aids to travel are a matter of horses for courses, although there is a lot of overlap. Allstays is another good one for the USA and covers walmarts, lots of commercial camprounds and rv parks plus usfs, np, army corps and blm places as well as a heap of other relevant information such as bridge heights, propane refillers and truck stops and dump points.
We travel in a variety of vehicles all over the world and use whichever one gives us the results we are looking for. In the usa all three combine to cover any eventuality. In Mexico, ioverlander has pretty much eclipsed the remnants of the Churc's books and is THE source for central and south America and is pretty much best for Turkey, Morocco and Iceland. Europe is like the usa in that it has many sources that cover whatever sort of camping you are looking for.
Despite the availability of wireless internet, any source that isn't mostly functional completely offline is barely worth having, because even in the Usa there are huge areas with no phone service

Usa canada & central america
 

We are currently travelling north to canada via the usa (how else?)
We use ioverlander,free camping.nett & allstays,then choice the most suitable for us.
They are free &easy to use :thumbup1:

I agree!

Panny

To cut it short, I was on a camping site near Uvalde, trying to stay for some days. It was nice and good over there but, there is a Wallmart near, so you can find anything you need over there, I didn't cook, I bought the food, so I had not headache's. Oh! By the way I got bited by a snake, I don't know exactly if it was venomous. I was bited in a shoe :) I had luck, just because of my Snake boots.God bless them. So be careful over there, It is a nice place but you can get bited.

Yeah, you've got to watch out - it's a jungle out there. This was from a campground in Florida a few years back:

https://i.postimg.cc/nrhs5TLQ/Yam-croc.jpg

Hire in Canada it seem that https://freecampsites.net/ is having listing mainly Wallmart as free campsite.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7Vz7mgGMa...latz-suche.JPG

Park4night does outperform other solutions like iOverlander currently, and is growing fast. Strong in Europe too...

https://www.4x4tripping.com/2020/01/...ng-leicht.html

You can use it by PC or Smartphone App.

Surfy

another campsite finder...
 

I used Kampnik with great success in the US and Canada. It lists both paid and free campsites including the facilities available at each place. Is user editable.

https://www.kampnik.com/

Worth remembering that iOverlander, park4night etc all list free camp spots that are not legal places to stay, always check the local rules and regulations before relying on information in the apps

I've reported several iOverlander locations but they are still listed so be careful.