Maybe it was posted here before...we found lots of nice free campsites and boondocks in the US and Kanada here: www.freecampsites.net

No camping allowed in Croatia, except official camp sites.
It's even forbiden to camp on your own land

Im a Brit living in the south of Portugal and I go off for long weekends in Portugal and Spain and wild camp every time. Portugal (especially the south) has 1000's of miles of off road tracks and not a lot of fenced land so it makes it very easy. Spain I find a bit harder to find that ideal quiet spot due to more fenced land but still easy to do.
Like most people have been saying on this thread, basically don't make loads of noise, don't leave litter about, try and dig a hole for your turds or at least pick a sensible spot and a big no no is fires. We have a lot of dry land that can go up in flames with just 1 spark.

That's sound advice about wild camping in this climate and a good observation about southern Spain.

In most of Spain, however, it's quite rare to find land fenced in apart from meadows and gardens near villages. In Extremadura especially there are large tracts of dehesa that are fenced off in to big estates where they rear the wonderful Iberian semi-wild pigs that live off the acorns. And with a ham starting at €400 each it's no surprise that the owners are touchy about their welfare!

Simon

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Given that even when you consider just the issue of "wild-camping" (yet to be legally defined) in fully self-contained motorhomes, there will be as many yes/no opinions as there are motorhome owners, so I suspect a topic like this is barely worth the expenditure of the electrons needed to post it. A very few countries have written law that specifically allow a particular pursuit and a similarly small number specifically disallow it. The majority either don't have national or even any laws, or like Australia, have several layers of government and land control and ownership - Federal, State and local government, freehold, leasehold, Aboriginal title - and within each of these, multiple layers each with different policies on such use and each with dramatically different responses to infractions, so that it just isn't possible to come up with an all-encompassing rule that is of any use to the traveller. Some like France have very specific laws relating to very specific sectors of the traveling public. For instance the official French Aires for Camping Cars are just for camping cars (motorhomes) and even cars and caravans (travel trailers) are not permitted, let alone rooftop tents or ground tents. Everyone else is expected to use official campgrounds. In Iceland, almost every square inch of land is privately owned and there are no road reserves as such so theoretically any camping activity requires permission, but we have wildcamped - meaning parked overnight in a motorhome - for around 60 nights all over with no issues.

All that often happens is each travellers personal opinion gets promoted as law on the basis that "I did it and got away with it so everyone else can too"

We have been moved on 4 times in 10 years of full-time motorhoming despite boondocking considerably more than 50% of nights - once in Morocco by corrupt police moonlighting for the local RV park owner, once by a fisheries officer in Montana because we were parked in a disused fishing reserve and a local reported us, and twice in Turkey by very pleasant and helpful security forces because they were worried about our safety along the eastern border.

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For what it's worth - Spain has specific laws for motorhomes/campers or call them what you like. Get the lowdown from the 'experts' i.e. the traffic police here.

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Simon

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In Australia I use the WikiCamps App - so far it's been great for find the best free spots.

Some Aussie towns now have "commons" areas which allow free camping up to 2 or 3 nights and even have showers - usually these are full of "grey nomads" if free - other towns charge token amounts for commons grounds.

Aussie National Parks are all self paid, self declared systems, but rangers don't usually work after 3pm or before 8am - so if you arrive late and leave early nobody cares.